Call for Papers: ManGeo Working Paper Series
The Management Geography Research Group invites scholars, doctoral researchers, and practitioners to submit manuscripts to the ManGeo Working Paper Series.
We welcome innovative research examining the spatial dimensions of management and their implications for organizations, regions, and local and global economies. Relevant topics include managerial action modes, corporate embeddedness, international and intercultural management, organizational learning, innovation, sustainability, business networks, and the interaction between firms and their institutional environments.
The series offers a platform for promising ideas, exploratory studies, and theoretically informed case research that may be difficult to place in conventional academic journals at an early stage. We particularly encourage contributions that develop new concepts, present original empirical findings, or connect management research with geographical perspectives.
Authors who have participated in ManGeo academic activities, as well as contributors submitting high-quality manuscripts, may benefit from a relatively rapid review and online publication process. Each submission receives constructive, light-touch scholarly feedback designed to support its further development for publication in academic journals, edited volumes, or books.
No fixed layout or formatting style is required at the initial submission stage. Authors remain responsible for the academic integrity, ethical standards, accuracy, and originality of their work.
We look forward to receiving contributions that help advance Management Geography and make place and space more visible in management research.
Please submit your working paper to: 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 has been published with Business Administration, Vol. 64, No. 6 entitled CAE and Hybrid Manager Reconciliation of Cultural Differences Leading in Japanese Workplaces (Download PDF here)
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
The Space of Business Ecosystems: Can Topical Space in Business Ecosystems be Perceived as Glocal? by William W. BABER (Kyoto University) and Arto OJALA (University of Vaasa)
