Johannes Glückler
Biographic Data
| ID | 101483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johannes Glückler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Glückler |
| SIGNATURE | GLÜCKLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2507-1556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 504 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Geography of Patent Law: An Institutional Model of Variation and Convergence of Judicial Beliefs
Professions and Proficiency
This open access book Professions and Proficiency takes an original view on the social production of knowledge in and across space. Free online access
Legitimate network governance in small-scale fisheries in northern Chile
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 legitimacy in governance outcomes is examined by conducting a comparative case study of two TURF networks in…
The Judicial Geography of Patent Litigation in Germany: Implications for the Institutionalization of the European Unified Patent Court
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) will be the pillar of a unified European patent enforcement system. Crucial to its success will be the harmonization of geographical variation in national jurisdictions. Germany offers a unique opportunity to explore such harmonization, as plaintiffs can choose between twelve regional courts to file a patent suit, resulting in different patent court practices within the same jurisdiction. Adopting a legal geography …
Knowledge and Civil Society
This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. Free!
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation
The continued emphasis on innovation in urban and clustered settings has led many geographers to conceive peripheries as laggard and non-innovative. After reconstructing discussions of the periphery in the context of the geography of firm-level innovation, we argue that normative connotations should be stripped away, and that ‘periphery’ and ‘center’ are better understood as positions in a field. We draw upon concepts current in network theory an…
Assisted network governance: An inclusive innovation to mitigate extreme water scarcity
We study a local innovation of natural resource governance in Chile in times of extreme water scarcity. Through the issuance of a scarcity decree, the government obliges local water user associations (WUAs) to reach viable water redistribution agreements in order to avoid being overruled by the state. In the Aconcagua River, the government together with the WUAs created the Executive Committee, where only the WUAs have a vote, but private and pub…
Navigating uncertainty in networks of social exchange: A Relational Event Study of a Community Currency System
This article analyzes the structure of socially embedded exchange under uncertainty in the context of a community currency system in Germany. We discuss three relational and path-dependent mechanisms—experience-based trust, networked reputation and public reputation—which serve as navigation practices to mitigate uncertainty. We furthermore associate these mechanisms with observable structures of exchange, namely repeated transactions and recipro…
Same same but different: Regional coherence between institutions and policies in family firm succession
Family firms represent the backbone of regional economies in Europe. Yet, due to demographic and societal changes, family firm succession increasingly poses a challenge to both firm continuity and regional stability, which is why policymakers look for appropriate ways to support family firms in their succession processes. In pursuit of policies that fit local institutional conditions, we explore the fact that two structurally similar European reg…
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry
We take an institutional perspective to examine how innovation thrives under conditions of resistance. Specifically, we conceive illicit innovation as a process of successive institutionalization of a new practice in the face of contrary law. In the German federal state of Bavaria, the global movement of craft-beer brewing collides with a regional jurisdiction that prohibits precisely these brewing practices and instead protects the traditional i…
Unleashing the potential of relational research: A meta-analysis of network studies in human geography
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-analysis of over 300 network studies published between 1990 and 2018, we offer a sympathetic critique of t…
Sona: A relational methodology to identify structure in networks
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 for Situational Organizational Network Analysis to overcome this dualism. In sequencing and integrati…
Legitimation strategies in an emerging field: Family firm succession consultancy in Germany
Finding a successor has become a severe challenge for family firms in Germany. As family firms are disproportionately concentrated in rural economies, succession has also become a considerable threat for peripheral regions and their labor markets. It therefore lies in the interest of regional stakeholders to help support family business continuity. One way to do this is by providing consulting services for family entrepreneurs, especially when se…
Network stability in organizational flux: The case of in-house management consulting
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 forces composing and decomposing a network. Set in continuously changing organizational composition…
In the mood for learning? How the thought collectives of designers and engineers co-create innovations
In this article, we argue that learning across fields depends on the social construction of (in)commensurability rather than on the ‘distance’ between bodies of knowledge. Building on Fleck’s (1935) original concept of thought collectives, we examine how two professions, engineers and industrial designers, often fail yet sometimes succeed to make their knowledge commensurable and co-create innovation. Empirically, we draw on qualitative fieldwork…
Gobernanza, redes y territorio
Gobernanza lateral de redes: Legitimidad y delegación relacional de la autoridad decisoria
Este artculo va ms all del reconocimiento de las redes como un modo de gobernanza para elaborar sobre las formas reales de gobernanza que transmiten una coordinacin legtima y aceptable. Avanza el concepto de gobernanza lateral de redes en el contexto emprico de las redes organizadas, en el que las empresas ponen en comn sus recursos y unen sus intereses en la bsqueda de objetivos comunes. Para resolver el rompecabezas de tener iguales independien…
On the Spatiality of Institutions and Knowledge
The relationship between geography and the creation, use, and reproduction of knowledge has been at the core of this book series. The previous twelve volumes have focused, among other topics, on the role that creativity, culture, power, networks, science and universities have in cultivating an understanding of how the social process of knowing unfolds in space. They all draw attention to ways in which this process is situated in places and how le…
Knowledge and Institutions
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepreneurship, art and cultural heritage, often at regional…
Knowledge and Networks
This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of resea
Rewiring global networks at local events: Congresses in the Stock Photo Trade
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 article elaborates on the metaphor of rewiring to propose and empirically demonstrate a further role of in…
Unpacking social divisions of labor in markets: Generalized blockmodeling and the network boom in stock photography
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 paper develops a theoretical link between the concept of regular equivalence and its capacity to dete…
Relational upgrading in global value networks
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 reap additional benefits when moving from peripheral to more central market positions. Drawing on met…
OUP accepted manuscript
Although social network analysis has gained popularity in economic geography over the last decade, most of these applications focused on analyzing the characteristics of and opportunities for single actors or regions within networks. Yet, many contemporary research challenges in economic geography center on questions regarding structural dynamics and their implications in entire networks for the collective outcomes involving social actors. This s…
How controversial innovation succeeds in the periphery? A network perspective of Basf Argentina
This article builds elements of a theory of peripheral innovation in transnational corporations. Although subsidiaries at the geographical periphery of the global economy and at the organizational periphery of their headquarters often contribute a negligible amount to the corporate global revenues, this article provides evidence on the role of these peripheries in knowledge creation and in enforcing controversial innovations. Based on an embedded…
Toward a relational economic geography
Journal Article Toward a relational economic geography Get access Harald Bathelt, Harald Bathelt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Johannes Glückler Johannes Glückler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1 April 2003, Pages 117-144, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/3.2.117 Published: 01 April 2003
Institutional change in economic geography
This paper develops a rigorous concept of institutions to investigate the interrelationships between institutional and economic change from the perspective of economic geography. We view institutions neither as behavioural regularities nor as organizations or rules, but conceive institutions as stabilizations of mutual expectations and correlated interaction. The paper discusses how economic interaction in space is shaped by existing institutions…
Economic geography and the evolution of networks
Journal Article Economic geography and the evolution of networks Get access Johannes Glückler Johannes Glückler ** Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ostenstrasse 18, 85072 Eichstätt, Germany. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2007, Pages 619–634, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbm023 Published: 29 May 2007 Article history Received: 02 Septem…
Resources in Economic Geography: From Substantive Concepts towards a Relational Perspective
Resources are crucial for the technological and economic development of firms in spatial perspective. In this paper we contrast two ways of conceptualizing resources, and argue that a conventional, substantive understanding implies a number of shortcomings which can be overcome through the application of a relational conception of resources. In examining four types of resources-material resources, knowledge, power, and social capital-our argument…
Geography of Reputation: The City as the Locus of Business Opportunity
Glückler J. (2007) Geography of reputation: the city as the locus of business opportunity, Regional Studies 41, 949–961. The paper discusses the limits of current cluster theory and theorizes trans-local network externalities as an important cause for the urban agglomeration of knowledge services. A survey of management consulting firms in the metropolitan region of Frankfurt demonstrates that the benefit of co-location in the city lies in the ac…
Unleashing the potential of relational research: A meta-analysis of network studies in human geography
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-analysis of over 300 network studies published between 1990 and 2018, we offer a sympathetic critique of t…
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation
The continued emphasis on innovation in urban and clustered settings has led many geographers to conceive peripheries as laggard and non-innovative. After reconstructing discussions of the periphery in the context of the geography of firm-level innovation, we argue that normative connotations should be stripped away, and that ‘periphery’ and ‘center’ are better understood as positions in a field. We draw upon concepts current in network theory an…
How controversial innovation succeeds in the periphery? A network perspective of Basf Argentina
This article builds elements of a theory of peripheral innovation in transnational corporations. Although subsidiaries at the geographical periphery of the global economy and at the organizational periphery of their headquarters often contribute a negligible amount to the corporate global revenues, this article provides evidence on the role of these peripheries in knowledge creation and in enforcing controversial innovations. Based on an embedded…
Knowledge, Networks and Space: Connectivity and the Problem of Non-Interactive Learning
Glückler J. Knowledge, networks and space: connectivity and the problem of non-interactive learning, Regional Studies. This paper develops an integrative perspective of network theory and economic geography to attain a more inclusive understanding of the creation and reproduction of knowledge. A sympathetic review of network research in the social sciences conveys that geography is often a marginalized factor and that the empirical evidence about…
Knowledge and Networks
This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of resea
Gobernanza, redes y territorio
Assisted network governance: An inclusive innovation to mitigate extreme water scarcity
We study a local innovation of natural resource governance in Chile in times of extreme water scarcity. Through the issuance of a scarcity decree, the government obliges local water user associations (WUAs) to reach viable water redistribution agreements in order to avoid being overruled by the state. In the Aconcagua River, the government together with the WUAs created the Executive Committee, where only the WUAs have a vote, but private and pub…
Netzwerke, Lernen und evolutionäre Regionalentwicklung
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry
We take an institutional perspective to examine how innovation thrives under conditions of resistance. Specifically, we conceive illicit innovation as a process of successive institutionalization of a new practice in the face of contrary law. In the German federal state of Bavaria, the global movement of craft-beer brewing collides with a regional jurisdiction that prohibits precisely these brewing practices and instead protects the traditional i…
In the mood for learning? How the thought collectives of designers and engineers co-create innovations
In this article, we argue that learning across fields depends on the social construction of (in)commensurability rather than on the ‘distance’ between bodies of knowledge. Building on Fleck’s (1935) original concept of thought collectives, we examine how two professions, engineers and industrial designers, often fail yet sometimes succeed to make their knowledge commensurable and co-create innovation. Empirically, we draw on qualitative fieldwork…
Rewiring global networks at local events: Congresses in the Stock Photo Trade
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 article elaborates on the metaphor of rewiring to propose and empirically demonstrate a further role of in…
Relational upgrading in global value networks
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 reap additional benefits when moving from peripheral to more central market positions. Drawing on met…
OUP accepted manuscript
Although social network analysis has gained popularity in economic geography over the last decade, most of these applications focused on analyzing the characteristics of and opportunities for single actors or regions within networks. Yet, many contemporary research challenges in economic geography center on questions regarding structural dynamics and their implications in entire networks for the collective outcomes involving social actors. This s…
Book Views: Edited by PÄIVI Oinas
Why write books? For two good reasons: first, because you enjoy writing; second, because you have something you want to say. In my case, I discovered that I liked to write at the age of six, when I
Netzwerke, Lernen und evolutionäre Regionalentwicklung
Bridging Uncertainty in Management Consulting: The Mechanisms of Trust and Networked Reputation
This article analyzes the market of management consulting and identifies institutional and transactional uncertainty as its principal features. Based on these uncertainties, we argue that competition in this market takes place on entirely different grounds than in other business sectors. We suggest that the main drivers of competitiveness are neither price nor measurable quality, but rather experience-based trust and a mechanism we label ‘network…
Toward a relational economic geography
Journal Article Toward a relational economic geography Get access Harald Bathelt, Harald Bathelt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Johannes Glückler Johannes Glückler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1 April 2003, Pages 117-144, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/3.2.117 Published: 01 April 2003
Resources in Economic Geography: From Substantive Concepts towards a Relational Perspective
Resources are crucial for the technological and economic development of firms in spatial perspective. In this paper we contrast two ways of conceptualizing resources, and argue that a conventional, substantive understanding implies a number of shortcomings which can be overcome through the application of a relational conception of resources. In examining four types of resources-material resources, knowledge, power, and social capital-our argument…
Denkanstöße zu einer anderen Geographie der Ökonomie
Wissensökonomie, entgrenzte Netzwerkgesellschaft - im globalen Zeitalter hat sich die räumliche Organisation wirtschaftlicher Prozesse radikal gewandelt. In diesem Buch blicken renommierte Wirtschaftsgeographen auf diese Veränderungen und entwerfen Alternativen zu dominierenden neoklassisch inspirierten Positionen. Im Dialog mit der Wissenschaftsphilosophie, den Kulturwissenschaften, der heterodoxen Ökonomik und der Organisationssoziologie werden…
Economic geography and the evolution of networks
Journal Article Economic geography and the evolution of networks Get access Johannes Glückler Johannes Glückler ** Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ostenstrasse 18, 85072 Eichstätt, Germany. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2007, Pages 619–634, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbm023 Published: 29 May 2007 Article history Received: 02 Septem…
Geography of Reputation: The City as the Locus of Business Opportunity
Glückler J. (2007) Geography of reputation: the city as the locus of business opportunity, Regional Studies 41, 949–961. The paper discusses the limits of current cluster theory and theorizes trans-local network externalities as an important cause for the urban agglomeration of knowledge services. A survey of management consulting firms in the metropolitan region of Frankfurt demonstrates that the benefit of co-location in the city lies in the ac…
Relational Action in a Spatial Perspective
This chapter determines the basic propositions of a relational analysis in spatial perspective. It explains the key concepts of contextuality, contingency, and path-dependence within a framework of relational action; reviews the theoretical implications of such a perspective for the study of economic action; and combines the concept of space as a perspective with the notion of relational action. Topics discussed include transitions in economic ge…
The Relational Economy: Geographies of Knowing and Learning
How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what ways are local clusters and global exchange relations intertwined and co-constituted? What are the impacts of global changes in technology, demand, and competition on the organization of production…
Unternehmensnetzwerke: Architekturen, Strukturen und Strategien
Book Views: Edited by PÄIVI Oinas
Why write books? For two good reasons: first, because you enjoy writing; second, because you have something you want to say. In my case, I discovered that I liked to write at the age of six, when I
Institutional change in economic geography
This paper develops a rigorous concept of institutions to investigate the interrelationships between institutional and economic change from the perspective of economic geography. We view institutions neither as behavioural regularities nor as organizations or rules, but conceive institutions as stabilizations of mutual expectations and correlated interaction. The paper discusses how economic interaction in space is shaped by existing institutions…
Knowledge, Networks and Space: Connectivity and the Problem of Non-Interactive Learning
Glückler J. Knowledge, networks and space: connectivity and the problem of non-interactive learning, Regional Studies. This paper develops an integrative perspective of network theory and economic geography to attain a more inclusive understanding of the creation and reproduction of knowledge. A sympathetic review of network research in the social sciences conveys that geography is often a marginalized factor and that the empirical evidence about…
How controversial innovation succeeds in the periphery? A network perspective of Basf Argentina
This article builds elements of a theory of peripheral innovation in transnational corporations. Although subsidiaries at the geographical periphery of the global economy and at the organizational periphery of their headquarters often contribute a negligible amount to the corporate global revenues, this article provides evidence on the role of these peripheries in knowledge creation and in enforcing controversial innovations. Based on an embedded…
Unpacking social divisions of labor in markets: Generalized blockmodeling and the network boom in stock photography
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 paper develops a theoretical link between the concept of regular equivalence and its capacity to dete…
Relational upgrading in global value networks
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 reap additional benefits when moving from peripheral to more central market positions. Drawing on met…
OUP accepted manuscript
Although social network analysis has gained popularity in economic geography over the last decade, most of these applications focused on analyzing the characteristics of and opportunities for single actors or regions within networks. Yet, many contemporary research challenges in economic geography center on questions regarding structural dynamics and their implications in entire networks for the collective outcomes involving social actors. This s…
Knowledge and Networks
This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of resea
Rewiring global networks at local events: Congresses in the Stock Photo Trade
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 article elaborates on the metaphor of rewiring to propose and empirically demonstrate a further role of in…
On the Spatiality of Institutions and Knowledge
The relationship between geography and the creation, use, and reproduction of knowledge has been at the core of this book series. The previous twelve volumes have focused, among other topics, on the role that creativity, culture, power, networks, science and universities have in cultivating an understanding of how the social process of knowing unfolds in space. They all draw attention to ways in which this process is situated in places and how le…
Knowledge and Institutions
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepreneurship, art and cultural heritage, often at regional…
In the mood for learning? How the thought collectives of designers and engineers co-create innovations
In this article, we argue that learning across fields depends on the social construction of (in)commensurability rather than on the ‘distance’ between bodies of knowledge. Building on Fleck’s (1935) original concept of thought collectives, we examine how two professions, engineers and industrial designers, often fail yet sometimes succeed to make their knowledge commensurable and co-create innovation. Empirically, we draw on qualitative fieldwork…
Gobernanza, redes y territorio
Gobernanza lateral de redes: Legitimidad y delegación relacional de la autoridad decisoria
Este artculo va ms all del reconocimiento de las redes como un modo de gobernanza para elaborar sobre las formas reales de gobernanza que transmiten una coordinacin legtima y aceptable. Avanza el concepto de gobernanza lateral de redes en el contexto emprico de las redes organizadas, en el que las empresas ponen en comn sus recursos y unen sus intereses en la bsqueda de objetivos comunes. Para resolver el rompecabezas de tener iguales independien…
Sona: A relational methodology to identify structure in networks
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 for Situational Organizational Network Analysis to overcome this dualism. In sequencing and integrati…
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