Industrial geography
The industrial geography designated a portion of the economic geography . It mainly deals with the local conditions and consequences or production processes in different regions of the world and their connections with global production systems and value chains.
Important theoretical explanations are
- Global production networks and global value chains
- Regulation theory
- Institutional Approaches
- Evolution-oriented approaches, evolutionary economics
- Industrial districts, creative milieu
- Organizational learning theories
Examples of research topics are
- Spatial and organizational change of industrial companies in the context of globalization and its regional consequences (e.g. industrial suburbanization )
- Industry and the environment
- Industrial companies in the "third world", in "emerging economies" and in "transition countries"
- Company-related services for industrial companies and their internationalization
- Industrial logistics
- Influence of the financial markets on regional industrial structures
- Industry and work (labor geography) etc.
literature
- Ingo Liefner, Ludwig Schätzl : Theories of economic geography. Volume 1. 10th edition. Schönigh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3825236434 (UTB 782).
- Harald Bathelt, Johannes Glückler: Economic geography. 2nd Edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8252-8217-1 (UTB 8217).
- Christian Berndt: Institutions, Regulation and Geography. In: Erdkunde (53) 1999 4, p. 302-316.
- Elmar Kulke : Economic Geography. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-8252-2434-1 (UTB 2434).
- Martina Fuchs, Bärbel Leupolt, Javier Diez, Eike Schamp: Economic geographers - their training, their competence and their market.
- Eike Schamp : Networked Production. Industrial geography from an institutional perspective. Darmstadt 2000.