This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies,...

Das Dong Xuan Center ist ein Stück Asien mitten in Berlin. Er ist nicht nur für die Besucher, sondern auch aus der Perspektive der Stadtentwicklung betrachtet eine echte Besonderheit: Das Großhandelszentrum hat sich auf dem Gelände des ehemaligen VEB Elektrokohle angesiedelt, die alte...

There is both a practical and a scholarly need for the thorough examination of the nexus between family firms and economic spaces (e.g. locations, places, landscapes). The authors address this nexus through two approaches. First, they explore economic spaces’ effect on family firms by...

The purpose of the paper is to introduce the interdisciplinary research stream called Management geography towards the broadly defined field of management studies. Management geography is targeting the nexus between 'space and management' and encompasses the study of spatial factors, spatial...

Following the concept of refiguration of spaces proposed by KNOBLAUCH and LÖW (2017), in this article I emphasize interfaces for theory building, methods, and comparative research from an economic geography and regional economics perspective. Since the refiguration of spaces offers an abstract...

The management of urban and rural areas has always consisted of a mixture of state, market and civil society actors. In times of increased liberalization, deregulation and privatization of many former state-dominated tasks, limited institutional capabilities of smaller communities, a lack of...

Die Wilmersdorfer Straße ist eine zentrale, historisch gewachsene Geschäfts- und Einkaufsstraße des Bezirks Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in Berlin und gemäß des städtischen und bezirklichen Zentren- und Einzelhandelskonzepts sowie der Abgrenzung unseres Untersuchungsraums Teil von zwei...

This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies,...