Our research group invites you to submit to the ManGeo working paper series. We encourage scholars to present their research on the spatiality of management and its implications for the global as well as local economies. For those who have collaborated with our academic events and/or submit high-quality contributions we offer quick turnaround from submission to online publication. We seek to publish innovative ideas on diverse managerial issues encouraging case study research usually not easy to publish in common journals. We provide light-touch but scholarly feedback that will help you toward publication in journals and books. No specific layout and format is required, but authors remain responsible for the scholarly and ethical quality of their paper. Please submit your working paper here
ManGeo Working Paper Series – ISSN 2436-3855
Published by: Management Geography Editor Team, ManGeo – Research Laboratory, College of Business Administration, 2-150 Iwakura-cho, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-8570, JAPAN; Tel. +81(0)72-665-2353
2021
ManGeo Working Paper #01
What is needed to lead in the Japanese workplace? – Classic assigned expatriates versus Hybrid managers’ acculturation, networking and leadership by Rolf D. Schlunze
2023
Observing problems for sustainable IHRM – Nurturing intercultural teams at a Japan-based MNE and a SME by Rolf D. Schlunze with TANG Xinyu
2024
Shaping spaces of innovation communities – The role of promoters in German-Japanese networks by Rolf D. Schlunze
2025
Chinese entrepreneur’s success in Japan: Case study on cross-cultural management in relational space -From the perspective of proximity- by Xuesong (Gioia) WANG
The Spread of Home-Made Meal Delivery Services in Beijing and the Role of Social Networks by Yasuhisa ABE and Qing ZHANG
Chambers of commerce as a bridge to local socio-economic conditions and business dynamics: A proposal for a new research area for management geography by Piotr MARCINIAK
Post-COVID-19 Localization of Human Resources at Japanese Companies in Urban China: The Embeddedness Theory Approach, with Insights from White-Collar Workers by Wenyue SANG and Yasuhisa ABE