{"title":"Care in economic geography: foundation and frontier","authors":"Amy Horton","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag047","url":null,"abstract":"As the Journal of Economic Geography turns 25, this commentary reflects on the field’s representations of care and directions for future research. In much of economic geography, care remains an absence, deemed peripheral to the economy. Yet for decades, scholars have shown that care exerts a pervasive influence as a foundation of economic activity. Care is also an increasingly important frontier for firms, finance and technology. Finally, care acts as a catalyst for rethinking and reorganising economic geographies. Reviewing existing work, I outline research agendas to address the distorting marginalisation of care and its transformative potential.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148401405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Umair S Choksy, Mark P Dallas, Matthew Alford, Yusuf Kurt
{"title":"Power and governance in global value chains: upgrading of Pakistani mobile application vendors in an era of platforms","authors":"Umair S Choksy, Mark P Dallas, Matthew Alford, Yusuf Kurt","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag040","url":null,"abstract":"This study integrates Gereffi et al.’s governance framework with Dallas et al.’s power typology to explain the functional upgrading of low-capability suppliers under increasing industry complexity. We argue that governance alone cannot account for upgrading in platform-mediated global value chains, without accounting for how institutional and constitutive power interact. By examining Pakistani mobile application vendors in Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android ecosystems, we demonstrate that while platform codification facilitates initial learning, it does not by itself lead to functional upgrading. Instead, upgrading depends on both platform codification and suppliers’ ability to gain legitimacy, enabling shifts from captive to modular governance.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"64 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148401558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risk in networks: the role of finance in governing Denmark’s green hydrogen production network","authors":"Oliver Bugge Hunt","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag019","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of risk on the organizational characteristics of global production networks (GPNs) is receiving growing attention in GPN debates. This paper examines how financial actors shape lead-firm risk mitigation strategies within Denmark’s emerging green hydrogen production network. It argues that through practices of evaluating, prioritizing, and reallocating risk, financial actors influence the organizational characteristics of GPNs. By integrating finance into GPN’s conceptualization of risk, the paper shifts the analytical focus from firm-centered approaches to the financialized dynamics of risk production and management, providing a novel conceptual contribution to ongoing discussions on risk.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147535854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culture, cities, and economic geography","authors":"Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, Michael Storper","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag020","url":null,"abstract":"This anniversary commentary examines how culture, broadly drawn, has been explored in the Journal of Economic Geography and the field of economic geography more generally, over the past 25 years. We argue that culture must be engaged more deeply within geography. To that end, we offer several frameworks to consider culture including cultural capital, the arts and cultural industries and cultural transmission. Our argument hinges on both a deeper and more interdisciplinary approach towards the study of culture as it pertains to economic geography and cities.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147518913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On resilience building for regional and local economies: What would it take?","authors":"Ron Martin, Peter Sunley","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag023","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the Journal of Economic Geography has contributed notably to the growth of the study of resilience in regional and urban studies. Reflecting back on this literature, in this brief Commentary we seek to highlight the need for theoretical and empirical research on the idea of ‘resilience building’ as a core policy imperative in today’s turbulent and unstable world.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147492807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hyoji Choi, Frank Neffke, Donghyeon Yu, Bogang Jun
{"title":"Close to home: bundled consumption, relatedness, and urban resilience in Seoul","authors":"Hyoji Choi, Frank Neffke, Donghyeon Yu, Bogang Jun","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag013","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how bundled consumption, defined as repeated co-use of amenities within clusters, shapes urban resilience based on empirical evidence from Seoul between 2019 and 2023. Using credit card transactions and shop locations, we extend economic complexity methods to the demand side by constructing a relatedness-based measure of co-consumption. Results show that bundled use is concentrated near residences, especially within 0–2 km but weakened during COVID-19 before partially recovering in 2023. These patterns highlight how crises disrupt the infrastructural routines of everyday consumption. The findings provide a behavioural lens on urban resilience and inform planning for sustainable, proximity-based cities.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"189 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147489716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political rotation of city leaders and unrelated diversification in China","authors":"Shengjun Zhu, Ziliang Liu, Xiaohui Hu","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbag015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbag015","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies stressed that external actors can help regions diversify into unrelated economic activities, but none has examined the role of the mobility of political leaders. Using micro-level data on China’s exports, investments, and city leaders, we find that, compared with leaders promoted locally, leaders who are rotated across cities introduce more unrelated activities, which further leads to better economic performance. Like other external actors, rotated leaders can also bring new knowledge and investments. Unlike other external actors, they are political actors. Whether they can translate new knowledge/investments into unrelated diversification is dependent on their political connections.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147373923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José Victor C Giarola, Frank Cörvers, Hans Schmeets
{"title":"Culture and cross-border commuting","authors":"José Victor C Giarola, Frank Cörvers, Hans Schmeets","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf054","url":null,"abstract":"Using unique administrative data on historical dialects, we estimate the effect of cultural dissimilarity on cross-border commuting flows from the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium (i.e. Flanders and Brussels) to the Netherlands. The results show that economic drivers, specifically the cost of commuting measured by the geographical distance, remain the most important factor defining the distribution of workers across the national borders of Belgium and the Netherlands. Furthermore, we showed that an increase in cultural difference between municipalities by one standard deviation leads to a robust decrease in cross-border commuting flows from Belgium to the Netherlands ranging from 7% to 22%.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remote work and reorganization of household infrastructure in the Global South: insights from the Indian information technology industry","authors":"Vivek Soundararajan, Pankhuri Agarwal, Divya Tyagi","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf052","url":null,"abstract":"Remote work scholarship treats work-from-home as individual adaptation, ignoring how households must reorganize to enable it. This individualistic bias proves particularly problematic for understanding Global South experiences where infrastructure deficits amplify household burdens. Examining 51 Indian IT professionals’ transition to remote work, we reveal how households reorganized across spatial, temporal, technical, surveillance, and emotional dimensions. We theorize “household infrastructure reorganization” as collective household labor enabling remote work, “domestication of organizational infrastructure” as cost transfer from organizations to households, and “infrastructural volatility” as chronic uncertainty shaping remote work. These findings challenge remote work scholarship and reveal geographic inequalities in remote work.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"193 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145559316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finance and economic geography: where does money come from and where is it going?","authors":"Dariusz Wójcik","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf051","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary reflects on the past, present, and future of financial geography in its relationship with economic geography. It discusses how financial geography of the present decade continues and changes research trends and patterns of the past two decades and outlines how financial geography could address global financial questions of the future, including the very nature of money. I argue that financial geography is now mature to address big questions on where money comes from and where it is going and that Journal of Economic Geography has a special role to play in this shared project.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145525201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}