IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/zbw/espost/261299.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Management Geography - Making Place for Space in Management Thought

Author

Listed:
  • Suwala, Lech
  • Pachura, Piotr
  • Schlunze, Rolf Dieter

Abstract

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 dimensions and spatial conditions of management processes in, by and between organizations. Research about space is not well established in management thought. Space is predominantly investigated within the borders of the organization, is imagined only implicitly, and will generally be substituted by strategy, structure, control, hierarchy, or other organizing elements. Management was born as a hands-on discipline, thus avoiding getting entangled in abstract phenomena or concepts like space or just taking them for granted. By providing a focused overview of the understandings of space in classical management theory and recent approaches, we outline shortcomings, unexploited potentials and new avenues necessary to address current spatial challenges in a globalized and hyperconnected world through the lenses of Management geography. Results highlight that understanding spaces, in particular, also between and outside of the organization can contribute to both explaining managerial and organizational success or failure as a spatial differentiating factor and allowing for a more balance approach towards the multifaceted management coordination of spaces in, by, between and around organizations.

Suggested Citation

  • Suwala, Lech & Pachura, Piotr & Schlunze, Rolf Dieter, 2022. "Management Geography - Making Place for Space in Management Thought," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 25(2), pages 323-340.
  • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:261299
    DOI: 10.17512/pjms.2022.25.2.21
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/261299/1/Suwala%20et%20al.%20%282022%29%20-%20Management%20Geograhpy%20-%20making%20place%20for%20space%20on%20management%20thought.pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.17512/pjms.2022.25.2.21?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Basco, Rodrigo & Suwala, Lech, 2021. "Spatial familiness and family spatialities—searching for fertile ground between family business and regional studies," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 7-32.
    2. Basco, Rodrigo & Suwala, Lech, 2020. "Spatial familiness: a bridge between family business and economic geography," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 185-212.
    3. Rolf D. Schlunze & Michael Plattner & William W. Baber & Nathaniel O. Agola, 2012. "Spaces of International Economy and Management: Launching New Perspectives on Management and Geography," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Rolf D. Schlunze & Nathaniel O. Agola & William W. Baber (ed.), Spaces of International Economy and Management, chapter 1, pages 3-23, Palgrave Macmillan.
    4. Jean-François Chanlat, 2006. "Space, organization and management : a socio-historical perspective," Post-Print hal-00161543, HAL.
    5. Marc H. Anderson & Russell K. Lemken, 2019. "An Empirical Assessment of the Influence of March and Simon’s Organizations: The Realized Contribution and Unfulfilled Promise of a Masterpiece," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 56(8), pages 1537-1569, December.
    6. Suwala, Lech & Schlunze, Rolf D., 2019. "The Stony Path of Management Geography," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 1(1), pages 1-5.
    7. Andrew Jones, 2012. "New Geographies of Global Managerial Practice: The Case of Business Services," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Rolf D. Schlunze & Nathaniel O. Agola & William W. Baber (ed.), Spaces of International Economy and Management, chapter 15, pages 271-295, Palgrave Macmillan.
    8. repec:dau:papers:123456789/1044 is not listed on IDEAS
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Basco, Rodrigo & Suwala, Lech, 2021. "Spatial familiness and family spatialities—searching for fertile ground between family business and regional studies," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 7-32.
    2. Suwala, Lech, 2021. "Concepts of Space, Refiguration of Spaces, and Comparative Research: Perspectives from Economic Geography and Regional Economics," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 22(3).
    3. Suwala, Lech & Schlunze, Rolf D., 2019. "The Stony Path of Management Geography," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 1(1), pages 1-5.
    4. Basco, Rodrigo & Suwala, Lech, 2020. "Spatial familiness: a bridge between family business and economic geography," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 185-212.
    5. Olejniczak Tomasz & Itohisa Masato, 2017. "Hybridization Revisited: New Insights from the Evolutionary Approach," Journal of Management and Business Administration. Central Europe, Sciendo, vol. 25(2), pages 43-62, June.
    6. Belitski, Maksim & Rejeb, Nada, 2022. "Does open customer innovation model hold for family firms?," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 334-346.
    7. Suwala, Lech & Albers, Hans-Hermann, 2020. "Corporate Spatial Responsibility and Sustainable Development Goals," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 141-153.
    8. Albers, Hans-Hermann & Suwala, Lech, 2021. "Family firms and corporate spatial responsibilities in Germany: Implication for urban and regional planning and management," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 237-255.
    9. Giada Baldessarelli & Nathalie Lazaric & Michele Pezzoni, 2022. "Organizational routines: Evolution in the research landscape of two core communities," Post-Print halshs-03718851, HAL.
    10. Hadjielias, Elias & Christofi, Michael & Vrontis, Demetris & Khan, Huda, 2022. "Social impact through family firms’ interorganizational relationships within a community and a cooperative: An embedded view of stewardship," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 139(C), pages 584-601.
    11. Felipe Kaiser Fernandes & Ana Silvia Rocha Ipiranga, 2016. "Organizing precarious spaces: An Actor- Network approach on Favelas," Post-Print halshs-01507057, HAL.
    12. Albers, Hans-Hermann & Suwala, Lech, 2020. "Räumliches Unternehmensengagement (Corporate Spatial Responsibility) und Ortsführung (Place Leadership) in Kleinstädten. Perspektiven für eine neue Ortsführung? Eine Zusammenführung von zwei Diskursen," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 63-84.
    13. Giada Baldessarelli & Nathalie Lazaric & Michele Pezzoni, 2022. "Organizational routines: Evolution in the research landscape of two core communities," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 32(4), pages 1119-1154, September.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    management geography; management; space; business; organization;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • P25 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
    • R10 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:261299. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/zbwkide.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.