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Sustaining economic geography? Business and management schools and the UK’s great economic geography diaspora

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James, Al, Bradshaw, Michael J., Coe, Neil M and Faulconbridge, James (2018) Sustaining economic geography? Business and management schools and the UK’s great economic geography diaspora. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 50 (6). pp. 1355-1366. doi:10.1177/0308518X18764120

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Abstract

This Exchanges commentary is concerned with the health of Economic Geography as a sub-discipline, and economic geography (as a wider community of practice) in one of its historical heartlands, the UK. Against a backdrop of prior achievement, recent years have witnessed a noticeable migration of economic geographers in the UK from Departments of Geography to academic positions in Business and Management Schools and related research centres. For the first time, a new (2018) research report by the Economic Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG – We’re In Business! Sustaining Economic Geography? – has empirically evidenced this trend since 2000 (see supplementary material). In this parallel commentary, we summarise the major findings of that project in order to identify: the scale of this cross-disciplinary labour mobility; its operation at different levels of the academic career hierarchy; and the underlying motivations and variegated outcomes experienced by those making the transition. We then move to consider the wider implications of this ‘Economic Geography Diaspora’ for sustaining Economic Geography teaching, research and knowledge production. While economic geography clearly has a healthy appeal to Business and Management as an interdisciplinary community of practice, we raise multiple concerns around the largely uni-directional nature of this ‘movers’ phenomenon in UK universities. We make a number of suggestions for possible interventions to effect positive change and to prompt a larger conversation that benchmarks this UK experience against other national contexts.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Global Energy
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Economic geography, Business schools
Journal or Publication Title: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 0308-518X
Official Date: 1 September 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
1 September 2018Published
11 April 2018Available
12 April 2018Accepted
Volume: 50
Number: 6
Page Range: pp. 1355-1366
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X18764120
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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