Robert Panitz

University of Koblenz · Institute of Management

Because Brexit has implied a surge of relocation decisions by financial service firms during a short period of time, we examine the locational decisions of the financial industry in Europe. Adopting a relational perspective we analyze the association between similar relocation decisions of UK-based banks and the connectivity of their decision board...

This article examines the impact of uncertainty and profound political, economic, and regulatory changes on the process of geographic reorganization of the financial industry in the course of Brexit. It draws on historic lessons of massive relocations within the financial industry in Europe to conjecture three scenarios: (1) concentrated relocation...

Although the positive impact of higher education on regional economies is widely recognized, empirical assessment of the magnitude of its periodic financial impact remains a puzzle. Conventional impact studies have focused on the regional effects of periodic university spending, neglecting the core functions of higher education institutions. To ove...

This article explores the effects of organizational flux on the statics of interpersonal knowledge exchange structures. In our empirical case, organizational flux refers to high rates of personnel turnover, temporary project work, constant recombination of team memberships, and short-term collaboration. Network statics refers to the balance between...

This article takes a geographical interest in the upgrading of countries by adopting a micro-perspective of firms and inter-firm networks. We propose the concept of relational upgrading as complementary to the traditional upgrading of activities such as products, processes or functions. Based on a core–periphery model, we argue that countries may r...

Es ist ein grundlegendes Paradigma des Innovations- und Wissensmanagements, dass die Entstehung, Speicherung und Verwertung von Wissen und Ideen geplant und organisiert werden können. Neues Wissen und Innovationen entstehen dabei nicht in sozialer und organisatorischer Isolation, getrennt von den Beziehungsstrukturen der Erfinder*innen und den zugr...

Development happens as a society undergoes structural transformation. Structural change in a society’s culture, institutions, and technologies is driven by new ways of thinking, new knowledge, and innovations. Although the latest wave of technological change, often referred to as the fifth Kondratieff cycle (Schumpeter, 1961), has been transforming...

By introducing Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURF), the Chilean government has devolved authority over the appropriation of benthic fisheries to local fishers' organisations. Yet there is little evidence of how this local governance works for membership organisations. Drawing on the theory of lateral network governance, the role of legitima...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments enforced epidemic policies of social distancing, restrictions of professional practice, and the prohibition of cultural live performances. Because such policies dried up important sources of income in the cultural and tourism industries, this paper examines how cultural institutions coped with this cri...

Industrial and geographical dynamics are interrelated. This chapter focuses on how scholars in the field of economic geography analyse the spatial dynamics of industrial change. Whereas traditional approaches have analysed industrial change through static and cyclical frameworks, contemporary theory endorses the evolutionary and institutional natur...

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Die Mannheimer Philharmoniker leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag zum kulturellen Angebot der Stadt Mannheim, zur musikalischen Bildung von Kindern und Jugendlichen und zur Förderung exzellenten Nachwuchses von Orchestermusiker:innen. Über die Erfüllung ihrer Kultur- und Bildungsfunktion hinaus erhöht die Arbeit des Orchesters auch die wirtschaftliche...

Social network analysis has become a popular methodology in human geography. This article develops three propositions – connectivity, contextuality, and reflexivity – for relational analysis to overcome the dualism between universalist network science on the one hand and idiosyncratic network stories on the other. Building on a detailed meta-analys...

The study of networks has been characterized by a dualism of methods. Researchers either use interpretive methods to explore the quality of social relations, or quantitative methods to assess the formal structure of network connectivity. However, because relational and structural characteristics of networks are interdependent, we present a method f...

Die neun Landesuniversitäten nehmen unter den 80 baden-württembergischen Hochschulen eine herausragende Position ein. Etwa die Hälfte der fast 360.000 Studierenden des Landes war dort im Jahr 2018 immatrikuliert, wobei der Anteil der ausländischen Studierenden mit 58 Prozent noch größer ausfällt. Darüber hinaus warben diese neun Universitäten allei...

The rise of global competition in a knowledge society and budget cuts in public spending have spurred an interest in the effects of universities on their regional economies. In contrast to the legacy of local impact analysis, this study examines the economic impact of an entire university landscape on a large regional economy: the federal state of...

During the advent of digital technology, the market for stock photography has undergone radical transformations that have disrupted incumbent businesses and produced new divisions of labor. Picture agencies have responded to this challenge with a veritable proliferation of inter-firm alliances. In the attempt to understand this network boom, this p...

Digital technologies have enabled the geographical expansion of production and the distribution of creative goods and communication. Simultaneously, the number of trade fairs and congresses has increased. This rise of temporary encounters has led to theorizations of events as marketplaces, learning sites and field-configuring practices. This articl...

The increasing global extension of the division of creative labour challenges remote firms to develop the market intelligence necessary to satisfy demand preferences of spatially distant customers. We distinguish four socio-material situations of learning where each situation implies a specific combination of three basic social communication techno...

Zusammenfassung Die Bewertung der wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung von Universitäten steht zunehmend im politischen Interesse, wenn es um die Rechtfertigung des öffentlichen Mitteleinsatzes für Forschung und Bildung geht. Während regionale Wirkungsanalysen bisher meist auf der lokalen Ebene und für einzelne Einrichtungen durchgeführt wurden, bewertet die...

The increasing global extension of the division of creative labour challenges remote firms to develop the market intelligence necessary to satisfy demand preferences of spatially distant customers. We distinguish four socio-material situations of learning where each situation implies a specific combination of three basic social communication techno...

This chapter contributes to the understanding of the adoption of controversial innovations in the context of organizational change. In situations of controversy, organizational change is likely to be resisted. The authors argue that the management-induced diffusion of new conventions and behaviors related to communication and cooperation in an orga...

Diese Untersuchung konzentriert sich auf das Ziel, die Bedeutung der Landesuniversitäten für Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkt im Land Baden-Württemberg zu bewerten, und zwar lediglich bezogen auf die kurzfristigen Wirkungen der Konsumnachfrage der Universitäten und ihrer Angehörigen. Diese können im Gegensatz zu den langfristigen Wirkungen universitärer...

In 2012, the GSIM Research Group at Heidelberg University carried out the first ever global survey on over 2,400 stock image suppliers on a truly worldwide basis. With a response rate of over ten per cent, the survey covers detailed information on 250 image suppliers that commercially trade usage rights on pre-produced still (photography, illustrat...