TY - JOUR AU - Gyuris, Ferenc AU - Borbély, Gyula AU - Kocsi, Viktor Attila TI - Global production networks: A geographical review of a research tradition JF - HUNGARIAN GEOGRAPHICAL BULLETIN (2009-) J2 - HUNG GEOGR BULL (2009-) VL - 74 PY - 2025 IS - 3 SP - 301 EP - 326 PG - 26 SN - 2064-5031 DO - 10.15201/hungeobull.74.3.5 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36358347 ID - 36358347 AB - This paper analyses the academic literature on global production networks (GPN) from 2000 to 2024 based on data from the Scopus database. It focuses on the uneven international landscape of authors, publications, funding sources, publishers and citations in the GPN literature compared with the firm Anglo-American hegemony prevailing in international geography in general. The article begins with an overview of the existing literature on asymmetrical power geometries in geography as a discipline, as well as the scholarly project of internationalising, worlding and decolonising geography. After that, it presents the research methodology of the current study. The results section highlights the temporal dynamics of the rise of the GPN research tradition. It reveals the multidisciplinary nature of this field of research and its solid interest in the industrial sector and the geographical dimension of the economy. It identifies the existence of a ‘primary European core’ and a ‘secondary Asian core’ rather than Anglo-American hegemony in the GPN literature, as reflected in the authors, funding sources and case study areas. It also confirms the dominance of Manchester and Singapore as leading global centres of calculation, as well as the still massive British hegemony over major publishing platforms, which is particularly strong in terms of citation-attracting ability. Meanwhile, the results reaffirm the marginalised position of most of the Global South. Finally, our study examines the uneven geography of GPN literature from authors in East Central Europe as a global semi-periphery and draws some general lessons for the geographies of science and the future possibilities of promoting the process of internationalisation, decolonisation and worlding of geographical research. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Máté, Éva AU - Trócsányi, András TI - Exploring the different ways of small-town development in Central and Eastern Europe JF - REVIJA ZA GEOGRAFIJO / JOURNAL FOR GEOGRAPHY J2 - J GEOGR (MARIBOR) VL - 20 PY - 2025 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 10 PG - 10 SN - 1854-665X DO - 10.18690/rg.20.2.5637 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36471496 ID - 36471496 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Mayer, Heike AU - Bole, David AU - Morisson, Arnault AU - Cima, Ottavia AU - Goluža, Maruša AU - Kozina, Jani TI - Going beyond city size: agency and multiscalarity in the transformation of industrial towns in Slovenia and Switzerland JF - REGIONAL STUDIES J2 - REG STUD VL - 59 PY - 2025 IS - 1 SN - 0034-3404 DO - 10.1080/00343404.2025.2462714 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36272437 ID - 36272437 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Nagy, Erika TI - Post-socialism: still here? JF - EURASIAN GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS J2 - EURASIAN GEOGR ECON VL - 66 PY - 2025 IS - 6 SP - 689 EP - 696 PG - 8 SN - 1538-7216 DO - 10.1080/15387216.2025.2510354 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36168086 ID - 36168086 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - THES AU - Peredy, Zoltán TI - A területi versenyképesség vizsgálata Komárom-Esztergom vármegye fejlődésében különös tekintettel a külföldi tulajdonú járműipar szerepére PY - 2025 SP - 200 DO - 10.54598/005620 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36244173 ID - 36244173 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - THES AU - Saidi, Feyrouz Ahlam TI - Small and Medium-Sized Towns in the Era of Economic Globalization: A Case Study of Algeria PY - 2025 SP - 152 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36091649 ID - 36091649 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Willett, Joanie AU - Williams, Malcolm AU - Akerman, Lucie AU - Rawlinson, Harry AU - Ghezal, Amina AU - Pitts, Frederick Harry TI - Peripheralization and economic development. a multi-causal approach TS - a multi-causal approach JF - EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES J2 - EUR PLAN STUD VL - 33 PY - 2025 IS - 4 SP - 471 EP - 490 PG - 20 SN - 0965-4313 DO - 10.1080/09654313.2025.2492180 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36326022 ID - 36326022 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kinossian, Nadir AU - Grillitsch, Markus AU - Nagy, Erika TI - Agents of change in old-industrial and non-metropolitan regions of Europe JF - EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES J2 - EUR PLAN STUD VL - 33 PY - 2024 IS - 11 SP - 2283 EP - 2292 PG - 10 SN - 0965-4313 DO - 10.1080/09654313.2024.2372413 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35142362 ID - 35142362 N1 - First online 22 Jul 2024 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kiss, Márta AU - Rácz, Katalin TI - Beyond the formal economy. Social cooperatives for labour integration under the pressure of market competitiveness TS - Social cooperatives for labour integration under the pressure of market competitiveness JF - SOCIAL ENTERPRISE JOURNAL J2 - SOC ENTERPRISE J VL - 20 PY - 2024 IS - 4 SP - 472 EP - 498 PG - 27 SN - 1750-8614 DO - 10.1108/SEJ-09-2023-0112 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34850732 ID - 34850732 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kozma, Gábor AU - Saidi, Feyrouz Ahlam AU - Molnár, Ernő TI - Local economic development strategies in a medium-sized city on the European periphery: a path to become an economic center of Eastern Central Europe importance JF - FRONTIERS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE J2 - Front Polit Sci VL - 6 PY - 2024 SN - 2673-3145 DO - 10.3389/fpos.2024.1335735 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34849824 ID - 34849824 AB - Large cities are becoming increasingly valuable in the spatial structure of globalized economies. Although these centers vary significantly regarding population, economic structure, and income conditions, they—compared to their surroundings—generally show a higher productivity level, a higher rate of employment, higher education, and higher innovation performance. However, this metropolization and concentration of the economy in large cities made the development of cities regarded as medium-sized on an international scale an issue of competitiveness in Europe, characterized by dense town networks, a small number of metropolises, and a significant weight of medium- and small-sized towns. However, one of the main preconditions for achieving success in this competition is to form a comprehensive and complex concept with a significant emphasis on economic development. Therefore, the aim of our study is to analyze the local economic development strategies for the last three decades, as elaborated in Debrecen. In the framework of our empirical analysis, we examined how different mainstream concepts appear in local development strategies and which development objectives are determined by the local strategies. Furthermore, we also aimed to identify possible changes in ideas about city roles by referring to the organization of economic space. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Lendvai, Tamás AU - Balogh, Virgínia AU - Tésits, Róbert AU - Alpek, Balázs Levente TI - A közép- és nyugat-dunántúli autóipari vállalatok pénzügyi mutatói és gazdasági teljesítménye, 2008–2020 JF - TERÜLETI STATISZTIKA J2 - TERÜLETI STATISZTIKA VL - 64 PY - 2024 IS - 6 SP - 691 EP - 730 PG - 40 SN - 0018-7828 DO - 10.15196/TS640601 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35090585 ID - 35090585 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Nagy, Erika AU - Mihály, Melinda AU - Tagai, Gergely TI - Towards a greener future? Environment and economic recovery in old industrial regions JF - EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES J2 - EUR PLAN STUD VL - 32 PY - 2024 IS - 11 SP - 2403 EP - 2421 PG - 19 SN - 0965-4313 DO - 10.1080/09654313.2023.2281348 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34377337 ID - 34377337 N1 - Published online: 16 Nov 2023 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Nagy, Erika TI - Új pályán – új függőségek szorításában? A helyi szereplők változó mozgástere és stratégiái Tiszaújvárosban JF - CITY.HU: VÁROSTUDOMÁNYI SZEMLE J2 - CITY.HU VL - 4 PY - 2024 IS - 2 SP - 135 EP - 153 PG - 19 SN - 2786-4022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35655691 ID - 35655691 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Saidi, Feyrouz Ahlam AU - Saidi, Ikram AU - Molnár, Ernő TI - Industrial Production Networks and Small Towns: A Case Study from Algeria JF - URBAN SCIENCE J2 - URBAN SCI VL - 8 PY - 2024 IS - 4 PG - 20 SN - 2413-8851 DO - 10.3390/urbansci8040180 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35472427 ID - 35472427 AB - This paper investigates the conditions and consequences of integrating small towns into industrial production networks. It is based on empirical research conducted in Algeria, a hydrocarbon-dependent rentier economy characterized by significant regional inequalities and the political aims of economic diversification and spatial rebalancing. Elaborating the case study of a state-owned cement factory in the small town of Sigus, the research provides insights into the multiple roles of the state in shaping production network integration and the characteristics of small towns as economic locations. The methodology combines secondary data and information with primary research based on semi-structured interviews. It reveals the importance of a multi-scalar regional framework in production network integration, whereby national factors played a key role due to the centralized Algerian state, the state-owned character of the investing company, and the shortcomings of the small town’s local environment. It emphasizes the contradictory impacts of production network integration in economic, social, and environmental terms, primarily on a local level. These contradictions underscore the necessity for critical evaluations to maximize the benefits of production network integration while mitigating its adverse effects. They also call for the more consistent involvement of the local community in similar economic development decisions. Notably, this research contributes significantly to the existing body of literature by addressing the underexplored topic of integrating small towns into production networks within the Algerian context. Doing so offers a more nuanced understanding of the particular economic, social, and environmental dynamics at play in these locations, thereby enriching the discourse on economic development strategies for small towns in rentier economies like Algeria. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Varjú, Viktor TI - Editorial: Institute for Regional Studies – Forty years in regional research, and beyond JF - TÉR ÉS TÁRSADALOM J2 - TÉR ÉS TÁRSADALOM VL - 38 PY - 2024 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 11 PG - 9 SN - 0237-7683 DO - 10.17649/TET.38.1.3550 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34754457 ID - 34754457 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Lux, Gábor ED - Szanyi, Miklós ED - Szunomár, Ágnes ED - Török, Ádám TI - A szerkezetváltás és a regionális fejlődés korlátai: külső és belső tényezők T2 - Trendek és töréspontok IV. PB - Akadémiai Kiadó CY - Budapest SN - 9789634548898 PY - 2023 SP - 77 EP - 83 PG - 7 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33948946 ID - 33948946 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Lux, Gábor ED - Koós, Bálint TI - Ipar: újraiparosodási folyamatok a külső sokkok korában T2 - Területi folyamatok Magyarországon 2021-2023 PB - HUN-REN Közgazdaság- és Regionális Tudományi Kutatóközpont, Regionális Kutatások Intézete CY - Budapest SN - 9786155754531 T3 - Területi riport, ISSN 3004-2755 ; 2. PY - 2023 SP - 130 EP - 150 PG - 21 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34442651 ID - 34442651 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Molnár, Ernő AU - Nagy, Erika TI - Alföldi városok a 21. században. Szerkesztői előszó JF - CITY.HU: VÁROSTUDOMÁNYI SZEMLE J2 - CITY.HU VL - 3 PY - 2023 IS - 2 SP - 5 EP - 13 PG - 9 SN - 2786-4022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34668829 ID - 34668829 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Sharma, Eliza AU - Prince, John Ben TI - Using the Power-Interruptions-Finances-Resources model to tackle the financial management problems of municipal corporations in India JF - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY-AN ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL J2 - PUBLIC ADMIN POLICY VL - 26 PY - 2023 IS - 2 SP - 213 EP - 227 PG - 15 SN - 1727-2645 DO - 10.1108/PAP-06-2022-0058 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34356519 ID - 34356519 AB - PurposeThe paper aims to explore the problems related to the financial management of municipal corporations in India and to suggest solutions.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on primary data collected from a sample of 577 employees of municipal corporations working in four metro cities of India, namely Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Delhi. Data were put through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for problem identification and inferences were classified and grouped to map the solutions for these problems.FindingsThe study found that municipal corporations in India face four major problems or issues in their financial management. These problems are mainly related to the four dimensions: Power, Interruptions, Finances, and Resources. The model used to explore these four types of issues is named as "PIFR model" by the author.Originality/valueThe findings suggest that real-world problems can be represented through a conceptual model that helps in identifying practical suggestions which can be implemented by municipal corporations at the ground level for better financial management. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Bole, David ED - Mayer, Heike ED - Lazzeroni, Michela TI - (Re)discovering the small and medium-sized industrial town and its development potential T2 - A Research Agenda for Small and Medium-Sized Towns PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham SN - 9781800887114 PY - 2022 SP - 89 EP - 106 PG - 18 DO - 10.4337/9781800887121.00011 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33330050 ID - 33330050 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Gál, Zoltán AU - Lux, Gábor TI - FDI-based regional development in Central and Eastern Europe: A review and an agenda JF - TÉR ÉS TÁRSADALOM J2 - TÉR ÉS TÁRSADALOM VL - 36 PY - 2022 IS - 3 SP - 68 EP - 98 PG - 31 SN - 0237-7683 DO - 10.17649/TET.36.3.3439 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33062008 ID - 33062008 AB - This review article reflects on thirty years of FDI-dependent development in Central and Eastern European regions (with a special emphasis on the Visegrad countries). The modernisation potential of FDI-led European integration is examined from a critical and comparative perspective. The authors argue that the FDI-led “Dependent Market Economy” (DME) model has fallen short of its anticipated modernisation potential, while other, potentially lucrative development alternatives have been neglected. While early-stage benefits were considerable, the development model now faces signs of exhaustion and an increasing number of contradictions. The paper builds on previous original research by the authors, as well as a review of international academic literature to describe the limitations and trade-offs of the DME development model, followed by an overview of three alternate growth paths for the future.In the macro-level perspective, it is argued that long-term catching-up rates across Central and Eastern Europe over 30 years have been limited, and signs of slowdown are increasingly apparent. Likewise, FDI does not seem to contribute significantly to domestic capital accumulation. On the micro-economic and regional levels, limited income effects are coupled with intangible risks and trade-offs. Strengthened socio-economic and territorial disparities ultimately pose problems for both metropolitan core regions and peripheries, while low capital embeddedness and limited spillovers denote weak territorial integration. It I advanced that the DME model may exacerbate future structural crises and exogenous shocks, and finally, that a development model dependent on exogenous capital structures shows curtailed capability to explore, learn, and benefit from beneficial growth opportunities.The paper makes the case that, while the DME model cannot be realistically dismantled in the foreseeable future without considerable risk to the CEE economies, a comprehensive diversification agenda should seek to gradually reduce its risks and foster alternate sources of growth. Embedding foreign capital into local economic networks represents one possible compromise, coupled with growing supplier networks and anchoring value creation in business services as well as innovation and R&D activities. However, alternate sources of development are also to be explored. The new revival of industrial policies in Europe and across the world opens opportunities before previously ‘inconceivable’ state-led development initiatives, including support for the emergence of new national champions. Last but not least, a strengthening domestic SME sector with competitive medium-sized enterprises and locally embedded production networks should serve to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems in domestic capital accumulation and value creation. Together, these and similar steps have the capability to shift the balance from the DME model towards a more competitive and resilient “successor model” where the interests of FDI and domestic development can be fruitfully reconciled. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Gong, Huiwen AU - Hassink, Robert AU - Wang, Cassandra C. TI - Strategic coupling and institutional innovation in times of upheavals: the industrial chain chief model in Zhejiang, China JF - CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF REGIONS ECONOMY AND SOCIETY J2 - CAMB J REG ECON SOC VL - 15 PY - 2022 IS - 2 SP - 279 EP - 303 PG - 25 SN - 1752-1378 DO - 10.1093/cjres/rsac011 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33411663 ID - 33411663 AB - For regions that are deeply integrated into the global economy, the question of how to remain competitive and resilient in times of uncertainty is a key concern. While strategic coupling is a useful concept for understanding local-global economic dynamics, the idea that a region can simultaneously couple into multiple production networks organised at different spatial scales and that regional actors can increase their autonomy by creatively combining different coupling scenarios has been little explored. This paper explores how regional institutional innovations can facilitate such multiple couplings. We focus on the industrial chain chief model in China's Zhejiang province, which emerged against the backdrop of the U.S.-China trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that this institutional innovation offers a different way of thinking for regions that have long been exposed to the influence of globalisation, and that it increases the agency of local actors in global production networks. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Mihály, Melinda TI - Peripheralization, Political Discontent, and Social and Solidarity Economy—Case Studies From Rural Hungary and Germany JF - FRONTIERS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE J2 - Front Polit Sci VL - 3 PY - 2022 PG - 22 SN - 2673-3145 DO - 10.3389/fpos.2021.741956 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32575941 ID - 32575941 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Molnár, Ernő AU - Saidi, Feyrouz Ahlam AU - Szabó, Katalin TI - Strategic coupling on the European periphery: A case study of a small Hungarian town JF - TÉR ÉS TÁRSADALOM J2 - TÉR ÉS TÁRSADALOM VL - 36 PY - 2022 IS - 3 SP - 122 EP - 144 PG - 23 SN - 0237-7683 DO - 10.17649/TET.36.3.3424 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33062040 ID - 33062040 AB - The FDI-based economic development policies in East-Central Europe and the strategies of transnational firms seeking cost-efficient production locations close to the main markets of the EU have led during the last decades to the integration of the region into different global/regional production networks, mainly in the form of locations for industrial production. While the intensity of re-industrialization largely determines economic growth and spatial socioeconomic inequalities outside metropolitan regions, the long-term success of this model, which tends to result in a dual economy, dependent development, and the ‘middle-income trap’, has been challenged. According to the GPN literature, which comprises the main theoretical basis of our research, the means of integration is the key to understanding the potential outcomes of this economic model. The process seems to depend on the quality of global-local interactions based on enterprise strategies and multi-level regional assets and agency.Our article focuses on making a comparative analysis of two transnational companies in a small peripheral town and uses the concept of strategic coupling as the analytical framework for the interpretation of the global-local interactions and their developmental outcomes. Based on secondary and primary sources, we examine the key assets and actors in the local environment, follow the development (upgrading trajectories) of subsidiaries, and analyse the dimensions and depth of their local/regional socioeconomic integration. We contribute to the special issue’s main objectives through our case study that reveals strategic coupling dynamics and quality and discusses the chance of more advantageous developmental outcomes in a peripheral location with limited and diminishing local (human) assets. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Storti, Luca AU - Urso, Giulia AU - Reid, Neil ED - Reid, Neil ED - Urso, Giulia ED - Storti, Luca TI - Economies–Institutions–Territories. Old Issues Revisited and New Research Avenues TS - Old Issues Revisited and New Research Avenues T2 - Economies, Institutions and Territories PB - Routledge CY - London SN - 9781032042343 PY - 2022 SP - 313 EP - 324 PG - 12 DO - 10.4324/9781003191049-18 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32947198 ID - 32947198 LA - English DB - MTMT ER -