Unfinished business

Leyshon, Andrew

Abstract

This short commentary responds to James et al.’s report on the employment of economic geographers within in departments of business and management in UK universities. An initial ambivalence about the numbers of economic geographers working outside the sub-discipline has been replaced by growing concerns over the supply of early career economic geographers, the immediate pressures of the Research Excellence Framework and the growth and financial significance of business schools within the UK university sector. Collective action and collaboration by the remaining economic geographers is encouraged to stem the tide.

Citation

Leyshon, A. (2018). Unfinished business. Environment and Planning A, doi:10.1177/0308518x18784599. ISSN 0308-518X

• Journal Article Type: Commentary
• Acceptance Date: May 31, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jun 29, 2018
• Publication Date: Jun 29, 2018
• Deposit Date: Aug 24, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 24, 2018
• Journal: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
• Print ISSN: 0308-518X
• Electronic ISSN: 1472-3409
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18784599
• Keywords: Economic geography, business schools, underground literature, Strength in Places Fund
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/985148
• Publisher URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X18784599