Prof. Dr. Martin Franz

Journal articles

VÖLLERS, P., VERFÜRTH, P. & FRANZ, M. (2024): German-Turkish investment relations in times of crisis - opportunities for action for companies and supporting organizations. Location - Journal of Applied Geography, 48, 37-43. doi.org/10.1007/s00548-023-00876-9

VÖLLERS, P., NEISE, T., VERFÜRTH, P., FRANZ, M., BÜCKEN, F., & SCHUMACHER, K. P. (2023). Revisiting risk in the Global Production Network approach 2.0 - Towards a performative risk narrative perspective. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(8), 1838-1858.  doi.org/10.1177/0308518X231169288

HELWING, V.; VERFÜRTH, P.; FRANZ, M. (2023): Trucking (un)limited - the impact of digital platforms on labor in production networks of logistics. ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography, 67(4), 177-188.  doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2021-0032

SCHACK, C.; NEISE, T.; FRANZ, M. (2023): Success factors for the sustainable development of business parks. Standort - Journal for applied geography. doi.  org/10.1007/s00548-023-00848-z

KOTZOLD, D.; HUER, L.; GRIESE, K.M.; FRANZ, M. (2023): Efficient and Sustainable Land Use in Logistics Through Cooperation: A Literature Review and Empirical Research. In: Journal of Management and Sustainability, 13(1), 103-118.  doi.org/10.5539/jms.v13n1p103

BAGCI, U.E., FRANZ, M. & YAVAN, N. (2022): Ethnic networks in the internationalization of Turkish food producers" ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography, 66 (4), 201-210. doi.  org/10.1515/zfw-2021-0052

FRANZ, M.; RÜLKE, J. (2022): The good story of chocolate from Ghana. In:  Geographische Rundschau 2022 (9), pp. 38-43.

ARNOLD, H.; FRANZ, M.; FELGENTREFF, C.; HIGGS, B. (2022): The effects of interdisciplinarity and internationality of group compositions in student fieldwork. In: Journal of Geography in Higher Education.  10.1080/03098265.2022.2119474

SEDUCED, P., NEISE, T., FRANZ, M., & SOHNS, F. (2022): The uneven effects of COVID-19 on the German restaurant and bar industry. Geography, 76 (2), 127-140.

GRIESE, K.-M.; FRANZ, M; BUSCH, J.N. & ISENSEE, C. (2021): Acceptance of climate adaptation measures for transport operations: Conceptual and empirical overview. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 103068. www.  sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920921003655

KOTZOLD, D.; HÜER, L.; GRIESE, K.-M. & FRANZ, M. (2021): Saving space in the planning of logistics real estate. Location - Journal of Applied Geography, 45, 155-160.  doi.org/10.1007/s00548-021-00732-8

VERFÜRTH, P.; HELWING, V., & FRANZ, M. (2021): Barriers to cross-border business cooperation in German border regions-the example of the German-Dutch Euregio. Europa Regional, 26 (4), 31-45.

VÖLLERS, P.; YAVAN, N. & FRANZ, M. (2021): The reaction of foreign firms to institutional change: The case of German direct investment in Turkey. Applied Geography, 134, 102503 (online first).  doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102503

NEISE, T.; VERFÜRTH, P. & FRANZ, M. (2021): Rapid responding to the COVID-19 crisis: Assessing the resilience in the German restaurant and bar industry. International Journal of Hospitality Management 96(1), 102960.  doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2021.102960.

SCHACK, C.; NEISE, T.; HEIMANN, D. & FRANZ, M. (2021). Building networks for sustainable transition of old industrial areas. Regions e-Zine, 9 (1).  doi.org/10.1080/13673882.2021.00001093

SCHMIZ, A.; FELGENTREFF, C.; FRANZ, M.; PAUL, M.; POTT, A.; RÄUCHLE, C.; SCHRADER, S. (2020). Cities and Migration - Bibliometric Evidence from a Spatially Biased Field of Knowledge Production. Geographical Review. doi.  org/10.1080/00167428.2020.1812070

FRANZ, M.; HENN, S. (2020): Multinationals from the BRIC-countries investing in German firms: Impacts on industrial relations. Industrial Relations - Journal of Work, Organization and Management, 27(1), 3-18.

FRANZ, M. (2020): Treffpunkt Gaststätte - why municipalities should take more care of their pubs and restaurants. Location - Journal of Applied Geography, 44, 93-98. doi.org/10.1007/s00548-020-00635-0

FRANZ, M. (2020): Restaurants as part of the local economy. In: HENN, S.; BEHLING, M. ; SCHÄFFER, S. (Eds.): Local economy. Springer, Heidelberg, 191-209  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57780-6_14

GERSCH, I.; FRANZ, M. (2019): Foreign divestment in the retail sector - The host market's perspective. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 110(2), 85-101.

MÜLLER. P.; FRANZ, M. (2019): Transnational labor migration and the offshoring of knowledge-intensive business services within global production networks: The case of a German automotive company in Turkey. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 51(6), 1350-1369.

FRANZ, M.; HENN, S. (2019): Emerging economies - of bricks, sneaky cats and emerging markets. Geographical Review 71(7/8), 4-9.

FRANZ, M.; MÜLLER, P. (2019): Turkey between economic boom and crisis. Geographical Review 71(7-8), 18-23.

SCHUMACHER, K.P.; YONG-WEI, S.; FRANZ, M.; YUE-QIANG, Z. (2018): 农业产业化中的粪肥排放风险研究 - 以德国为例 (The Risks of Manure in Agricultural Industrialization - the Case of Germany).湖北农业科学 (Hubei Agricultural Sciences) 57(18), 125-128.

FRANZ, M.; FUCHS, M.; HENN, S. (2018): Othering Practices toward New Firm Owners - Empirical Insights from South-North Firm Acquisitions in Germany. Journal of Economic Geography 62, 2, 108-119.

FRANZ, M.; SCHLITZ, N.; SCHUMACHER, K. P. (2018): Globalization and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus - Using the Global Production Networks Approach to analyze Society-Environment Relations. Environmental Science & Policy 90, 201-212.

FRANZ, M.; HENN, S. (2017): Investment from the BRIC countries. Cause for concern for companies, employees and municipalities? Location - Journal of Applied Geography 41, 1, 1-6.

FRANZ, M.; ROLFSMEIER, S. (2016): Brands, trust and quality in agro-food production networks: the case of layer hens. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 98, 3, 271-286.

BOLLHORN, K.; FRANZ, M. (2016): Production Network Knowledge as a Foundation for Resistance - Workers Influence on a Chinese Acquisition in Germany. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 107, 4, 407-420.

BUTSCH, C.; FRANZ, M.; KROLL, M. (2015): The Evolution of Geography-based South Asia Studies. Asia 134, 5-8.

FRANZ, M. (2015): India's economic policy - the small steps of the tiger. Geographical Review 67, 1, 10-15.

BOLLHORN, K.; GOLINSKI, S.; FRANZ, M. (2014): Investments from the BRIC countries in Germany - location patterns and location factors from the investors' perspective. Reports. Geography and regional studies 88, 3/4, 337-352.

DANNENBERG, P.; FRANZ, M. (2014): Food from the internet - online supermarkets on their way out of the experimental phase? Location - Journal of Applied Geography 38, 4, 237-243.

FRANZ, M.; FELIX, M.; TREBBIN, A. (2014): Framing smallholder inclusion in global value chains - case studies from India and West Africa. Geographica Helvetica 69, 4, 239-247.

APPEL, A.; FRANZ, M.; HASSLER, M. (2014): Intermediaries in agro-food networks in Turkey: How middlemen respond to transforming food market structures. The Earth 145, 3, 105-117.

BOLLHORN, K.; FRANZ, M.; HENN, S. (2014): Small Indian investments in Germany - The example of a service company. Location - Journal of Applied Geography 38, 1, 14-18.

FRANZ, M.; WARBURG, F. (2013): Guest editorial Value Chains - Linking Theory and Practice. Economia Agro-Alimentare 3, 11-14.

FRANZ, M.; ROLFSMEIER, S.; SCHLEIKEN, H. (2013): The hen or the egg - the importance of brands in the egg production network. Practice Geography 4, 22-26.

FRANZ, M., APPEL, A., HASSLER, M. (2013): Short waves of supermarket diffusion in Turkey. Moravian Geographical Reports 21, 4, 50-63.

PAULS, T.; FRANZ, M. (2013): Trading in the dark - the medicinal plants production network in Uttarakhand. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 34, 229-243.

TREBBIN, A.; FRANZ, M., HASSLER, M. (2013): Wholesale cooperation for small-scale retail in rural areas using the example of Central Hesse. Journal of Economic Geography 57, 3, 139-154.

HASSLER, M.; FRANZ, M. (2013): The bridging role of intermediaries in food production networks: Indian organic pepper in Germany. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 1, 29-40.

FRANZ, M.; TREBBIN, A. (2012): Supermarkets in India as a development opportunity - A question of perspective. Practice Geography 9, 24-28.

FRANZ, M. (2012): Resistance and strategic responses in food supply networks: Metro Cash & Carry in Bangalore. Geografiska Annaler: Series B Human Geography 94, 2, 161-176.

FRANZ, M. (2011): The power of resistance from the Global South in processes of globalization - protests against Metro Cash & Carry in Karnataka, India. Geographical Journal 99, 4, 220-236.

APPEL, A.; FRANZ, M.; HASSLER, M. (2011): Migros Türk - a (trans-)national company and processes of globalization in Turkish food retailing. Geographica Helvetica 66, 4, 271-280.

FRANZ, M. (2011): Processes of globalization in the retail sector - the actors and their power relations. Geographical Review 63, 5, 4-10.

FRANZ, M.; HASSLER, M. (2011): Globalization through supermarkets - Transnational retailers in Turkey. Geographical Review 63, 5, 28-34.

FRANZ, M. (2010): The role of resistance in a retail production network: protests against supermarkets in India. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 31, 317-329.

FRANZ, M. (2010): The potential of collective power in a global production network: UNICOME and Metro Cash & Carry in India. Geography 64, 3, 281-290.

TREBBIN, A.; FRANZ, M. (2010): Exclusivity of private governance structures in agro-food networks: Bayer and the food retailing and processing sector in India. Environment and Planning A 42, 2043-2057.

FRANZ, M.; HASSLER, M. (2010): The value of commodity biographies: integrating tribal farmers in India into a global organic agro-food network. Area 42, 1, 25-34.

FRANZ, M.; GÜLES, O.; PREY, G. (2008): Place-Making and 'green' Reuses of Brownfields in the Ruhr. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 99, 3, 316-328.

THORNTON, G., FRANZ, M.; EDWARDS, D.; PAHLEN, G.; NATHANAIL, P. (2007): The challenge of sustainability: incentives for brownfield regeneration in Europe. Environmental Science & Policy 10, 116-134.

THORNTON, G.J.P.; NATHANAIL, P.; FRANZ, M.; PAHLEN, G. (2007): The development of a brownfield-specific sustainability and indicator framework for regenerating sites: proposing a new definition of sustainable brownfield regeneration. Land Contamination & Reclamation 15, 41-54.

FRANZ, M.; PAHLEN, G., NATHANAIL, P.; OKUNIEK, N.; KOJ, A. (2006): Sustainable development and brownfield regeneration - What defines the quality of derelict land recycling? Environmental Sciences 3, 2, 135-151.

BUTZIN, B.; FRANZ, M.; NOLL, H.-P. (2006): Structural change under shrinking conditions in the Ruhr area - "Patchwork management" as a challenge. Journal of Economic Geography 50, 3, 258-275.

Contributions to edited volumes and conference proceedings

FRANZ, M.; NEISE, T.; VERFÜRTH, P. (2023): Gastronomy between structural change and the COVID-19 crisis. Options for action for economic development and city marketing. In: Korn, T.; Lempp, J.; van der Beek, G. (eds.): Economic development in the crisis. Concepts for crisis management and opportunity utilization. Springer Gabler: Wiesbaden.  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41390-3_4

SCHUMACHER, K.P.; BÜCKEN, F.; FRANZ, M.; GRIESE, K.M. (2023): The logistics challenge - communication for sustainable space management. In: Henn, S.; Zimmermann, T.; Braunschweig, B. (eds): Urban regional land management. Springer Spektrum: Berlin, Heidelberg.  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63295-6_32-1

FRANZ, M.; BÜCKEN, F.; SCHUMACHER, K.; GRIESE, K. (2021): Sustainability Transition and Climate Change Adaptation of Logistics. In: Brears, R. (ed.): The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_197-1

FRANZ, M. (2021): Transnational corporations in the Indian food trade - local resistance and political regulation of supply chains. In: FISCHER, K.; REINER, C.; STARITZ, C. (eds.): Global commodity chains and unequal development. Labor, capital, consumption, nature. Mandelbaum, Vienna, 312-317.

FRANZ, M. SCHUMACHER, K. P. (2020): Risk manure - a waste product jeopardizes the global production network of intensive agriculture. In: BAUR, N.; FÜLLING, J.; HERING, L.; KULKE, E. (eds.): Goods-Knowledge-Space. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, pp. 187-215.

FRANZ, M. (2019): Restaurants as part of the local economy. In: HENN, S.; BEHLING, M. ; SCHÄFFER, S. (Eds.): Local economy. Springer, Heidelberg,  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58363-0_14-1.

FUCHS, M.; HENN, S.; FRANZ, M.; MUDAMBI, R. (2017): Introduction: Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments: Building a Global Company. In: Fuchs, M., Henn, S., Franz, M. and Mudambi, R. (eds.): Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments. Building a Global Company. (--Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy) Abingdon: Routledge, 1-9.

FRANZ, M.; BOLLHORN, K.; RÖHRIG, R. (2017): Industrial Relations and FDI from China and India. In: FUCHS, M.; HENN, S.; FRANZ, M.; MUDAMBI, R. (eds.): Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments. Building a Global Company. (--Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy) Routledge, Abingdon, 33-42.

FUCHS, M.; HENN, S.; FRANZ, M.; MUDAMBI, R. (2017). Synopsis: Building a "Global" Company: Challenges of Interspace and Regional Embeddedness. In: FUCHS, M.; HENN, S.; FRANZ, M.; MUDAMBI, R. (Eds.): Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments. Building a Global Company. (--Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy) Abingdon: Routledge, 181-190.

GOLINSKI, S.; HENN, S.; FRANZ, M.; BOLLHORN, K. (2017): New investors. In: Bode, V.; Lentz, S.; Moser, J. (eds.): Deutschland aktuell 2: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, 42-47.

FRANZ, M.; HENN, S.; WEINGARTEN, J. (2016): Investors from the BRIC countries and employee interests in Germany. Developments, fears and prejudices. In: Franz, M.; Henn, S.; Weingarten, J. (eds.): BRIC investments in Germany. Opportunities and risks for companies and employees. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 7-30.

BOLLHORN, K.; FRANZ, M.; RÖHRIG, R. (2016): How investors from BRIC countries deal with co-determination practices from Germany. in: Franz, M.; Henn, S.; Weingarten, J. (eds.): BRIC-Investitionen in Deutschland. Opportunities and risks for companies and employees. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 149-174.

BOLLHORN, K.; FRANZ, M.; KRAEMER, G. (2016): Welcome or resistance. Reactions of employees and representatives. In: Franz, M.; Henn, S.; Weingarten, J. (eds.): BRIC investments in Germany. Opportunities and risks for companies and employees. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 215-220.

FRANZ, M.; WEINGARTEN, J.; HENN, S. (2016): Foreign direct investment from the BRIC countries in Germany. Conclusion. in: Franz, M.; Henn, S.; Weingarten, J. (eds.): BRIC investments in Germany. Opportunities and risks for companies and employees. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld.

FRANZ, M.; GERSCH, I. (2016): Online retail is change - a classification. In: Franz, M.; Gersch, I. (eds.): Online retail is change. (--Schriftenreihe Geographische Handelsforschung 24) Verlag MetaGIS Infosysteme, Mannheim, 7-22.

DANNENBERG, P.; FRANZ, M.; LEPPER, A. (2016): Going shopping online - Classification of current dynamics in food retailing from the perspective of geographical retail research. In: Franz, M.; Gersch, I. (eds.): Online trade is change. (--Schriftenreihe Geographische Handelsforschung 24) Verlag MetaGIS Infosysteme, Mannheim, 7-22.

TREBBIN, A., FRANZ, M., HASSLER, M. (2015): Securing Local Supply in rural Areas: the Role of Wholesale Cooperations in Central Hesse, Germany. In: Dannenberg, P., Kulke, E. (Eds.): Economic Development in Rural Areas - Functional and Multifunctional Approaches. Ashgate, Surrey, 131-146.

FRANZ, M. (2013): Retail supply chains - between globalization and local embedding. In: FRANZ, M. (ed.): Supply chains in the retail sector. (--Geographical Retail Research 18) Publisher MetaGIS Infosysteme, Mannheim, 7-17.

FRANZ, M. (2013): The embedding of supply networks for fruit and vegetables in the expansion of supermarkets - the case study of Reliance Fresh in India. In: FRANZ, M. (ed.): Supply chains in the retail sector. (--Geographische Handelsforschung 18) Verlag MetaGIS Infosysteme, Mannheim, 129-147.

FRANZ, M.; KOJ, A.; NATHANAIL, P. (2007): Sustainability assessment of brownfield regeneration - a review of different approaches. In: Federal Environment Agency Germany (Ed.): 2nd International Conference of Managing Urban Land. (-- Series REFINA 2) Freiberg, Nottingham, 255-267.

FRANZ, M.; LANGER, K. (2007): Objectives for Sustainable Brownfield Revitalization and the Challenges for Community Participation. In: Federal Environment Agency Germany (Ed.): 2nd International Conference of Managing Urban Land. (-- Series REFINA 2) Freiberg, Nottingham, 629-633.

BUTZIN, B.; FRANZ, M.; KOGELHEIDE, C. (2006): Concepts of sustainability for land conversion in old industrial regions. In: GENSKE, D. D.; HUCH, Monika; MÜLLER, B. (eds.): Fläche - Zukunft - Raum. Strategies and instruments for regions in transition. (-- Series of publications of the German Society for Geosciences e.V., H. 37) Hanover, 65-71.

Books

NEISE, T., VERFÜRTH, P., FRANZ, M. (Eds.). (2024). The Changing Economic Geography of Companies and Regions in Times of Risk, Uncertainty, and Crisis. Taylor & Francis.

FUCHS, M.; HENN, S.; FRANZ, M.; MUDAMBI, R. (2017): Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments. Building a Global Company. (--Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy) Routledge, Abingdon.

FRANZ, M.; HENN, S.; WEINGARTEN, J. (eds.) (2016): BRIC investments in Germany. Opportunities and risks for companies and employees. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld.

FRANZ, M.; GERSCH, I. (eds.) (2016): Online retail is change. (--Schriftenreihe Geographische Handelsforschung 24) Published by MetaGIS Infosysteme, Mannheim.

FRANZ, M.; MÜLLER, P. (2015): Foreign Direct Investment in Agri-Food Networks in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Bischöfliches Hilfswerk MISERIOR e.V., Mendelova Univerzita in Brno, Caritas Czech Republic. Aachen, Prague.  download

FRANZ, M. (ed.) (2013): Lieferketten im Einzelhandel (--Geographische Handelsforschung 18) Verlag MetaGIS Infosysteme, Mannheim.

FRANZ, M. (2008): Brownfield development and the institutional dimension of sustainability - The example of Upper Silesia. (--Schriften des Arbeitskreises Stadtzukünfte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie Bd. 6)  LIT Verlag, Münster - Berlin.

 Projects of the Human Geography working group with a focus on economic geography