Management Geography : Its Potential and Agenda

This paper argues for the potential of management geography in relation to two distinct disciplines of social sciences-management studies and economic geography.With the globalization of firms' activities, an increasing number of economic geographers have begun paying attention to the management of economic entities, particularly multinational enterprises (MNEs).In addition, as firms have recognized the importance of knowledge and innovation, academics have started investigating the knowledge economy.Economic geographers have been tackling management issues in the context of the spatial features of firms' activities.The paper points out the importance of launching management geography through the perspectives of Asian countries, especially Japan, which is significant in the global economy and has not been much investigated in geography in the literature in English.