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Harald Bathelt

Harald Bathelt

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
17703
World Ranking
4260
National Ranking
251

Overview

Harald Bathelt is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research encompasses a variety of subjects within business, economics, and social sciences, focusing on regional economics, spatial analysis, and international business.

The scientist's primary fields of study include Business, Management and Accounting, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences. Within these broad areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Harald Bathelt's main research topics cover:

  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • International Business and FDI
  • Global trade and economics
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
  • Conferences and Exhibitions Management
  • Management and Organizational Studies

They have published in several scholarly venues with notable frequency, including:

  • ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography
  • Economic Geography
  • Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie
  • Research Policy
  • Global Strategy Journal

Harald Bathelt has authored and co-authored a number of papers, with recent examples as follows:

  • "Processes of building cross-border knowledge pipelines" (2020) published in Research Policy
  • "Related Variety and Regional Development: A Critique" (2023) published in Economic Geography
  • "The interplay between location and strategy in a turbulent age" (2022) published in Global Strategy Journal
  • "Income divergence and global connectivity of U.S. urban regions" (2020) published in Journal of International Business Policy (co-authored with Maximilian Buchholz)
  • "Building Better Methods in Economic Geography" (2020) published in Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie

The scientist frequently collaborates with other scholars, including Maximilian Buchholz, Pengfei Li, John Cantwell, Sebastian Henn, and Michael Storper. These partnerships have contributed to a range of works largely centered on economic geography, strategy, and business management topics.

Best Publications

  • Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation

    Harald Bathelt;Anders Malmberg;Peter Maskell

  • Toward a relational economic geography

    Harald Bathelt;Johannes Glückler

  • Building global knowledge pipelines: The role of temporary clusters

    Peter Maskell;Harald Bathelt;Anders Malmberg

  • Between Luminaires and Meat Grinders: International Trade Fairs as Temporary Clusters

    Harald Bathelt;Nina Schuldt

  • The Relational Economy: Geographies of Knowing and Learning

    Harald Bathelt;Johannes Glückler

  • Institutional change in economic geography

    Harald Bathelt;Johannes Glückler

  • Wirtschaftsgeographie : ökonomische Beziehungen in räumlicher Perspektive

    Harald Bathelt;Johannes Glückler

  • A knowledge-based typology of university spin-offs in the context of regional economic development

    Harald Bathelt;Dieter F. Kogler;Andrew K. Munro

  • Cluster Relations in the Media Industry: Exploring the 'Distanced Neighbour' Paradox in Leipzig

    Harald Bathelt

  • Local, global and virtual buzz: The importance of face-to-face contact in economic interaction and possibilities to go beyond

    Harald Bathelt;Philip Turi

  • The creation of knowledge: local building, global accessing and economic development—toward an agenda

    Harald Bathelt;Patrick Cohendet

  • Geographies of Production: Growth Regimes in Spatial Perspective 3 – Toward a Relational View of Economic Action and Policy

    Harald Bathelt

  • Geographies of production: growth regimes in spatial perspective (II) - knowledge creation and growth in clusters

    Harald Bathelt

  • Toward a Reconceptualization of Regional Development Paths: Is Leipzig's Media Cluster a Continuation of or a Rupture with the Past?

    Harald Bathelt;Jeffrey S. Boggs

  • Resources in economic geography: from substantive concepts towards a relational perspective

    Harald Bathelt;Johannes Glückler

  • Global cluster networks—foreign direct investment flows from Canada to China

    Harald Bathelt;Harald Bathelt;Peng-Fei Li

  • Clusters, power and place: inequality and local growth in time–space

    Harald Bathelt;Mike Taylor

  • The Re-emergence of a Media Industry Cluster in Leipzig

    Harald Bathelt

  • Geographies of production: growth regimes in spatial perspective 1-innovation, institutions and social systems:

    Harald Bathelt

  • Regional competence and economic recovery: divergent growth paths in Boston's high technology economy

    Harald Bathelt

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