Mit Delegationsreisen Neuland betreten: Befunde und Reflexionen zu einer etablierten Praxis der Außenwirtschaftsförderung aus Bayern und China

Zademach Hans-Martin and Rimkus Manuel
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Zademach Hans-Martin: Hans-Martin Zademach, Fachbereich Geographie, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ostenstr. 18, 85072 Eichstätt, Germany, e-mail: zademach@ku.de
Rimkus Manuel: Manuel Rimkus, Vertretung des Freistaates Bayern bei der Europäischen Union, Rue Wiertz 77, 1000 Brüssel, Belgium

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 2016, vol. 60, issue 3, 107-120

Abstract: Agencies for business promotion and location marketing, such as Bavaria International and Invest in Bavaria, regularly organize delegation trips which allow small and medium-sized enterprises to get access to market knowledge and new business contacts. Despite the popularity of this established practice of foreign trade promotion, it is a largely unexplored field in academia. Based on comprehensive qualitative research, inter alia participatory observation during nine state visits of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs in China, the paper presents new empirical insights on the complex knowledge architectures and delicate socio-economic mechanisms of delegation trips. Against the background of these new insights, we put a conceptual framework up for discussion that aims to improve our prospects to grasp inter-organizational knowledge flows in cross-border cooperation by means of exploring what we call ‘glocal tweets’ as a new analytical category.

Keywords: Bavaria; China; glocal tweets; state visits; temporary clusters.; Bayern; China; Delegationsreisen; glocal tweets; temporäre Cluster.; Bavaria; China; glocal tweets; state visits; temporary clusters. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/zfw-2015-0578

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