Publications
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
2026. Butzin, Anna, Fuchs, Martina: Micro-Level Foundations of Relatedness and Innovation: The Re-alignment of Automotive and Bicycle Industries. Progress in Economic Geography. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2026.200074
2025. Martina Fuchs: Editorial: Skills for Local Sustainability Transformations and Development. International Journal of Training and Development. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.70001
2025 Martina Fuchs, Farina Koller, Hanna Link, Claudia Ziller: 'Green Skills': What Do Companies Do With It? The Case of Building Automation. International Journal of Training and Development, 29(4), 502-511. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12377
2024 Michelle Zander, Peter Dannenberg, Martina Fuchs: New Logistics Locations in Online and Hybrid Food Retail - The Example of Cologne. Spatial Research and Spatial Planning. Online First. https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/2572
2024. Michelle Zander, Martina Fuchs, Ivo Costantini, Ricarda Rolf, Peter Dannenberg: Spatial Employment Patterns in Cologne's Online and Hybrid Retail. Location. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00548-024-00952-8
2024 Martina Fuchs: Green Skills for Sustainability Transitions. Geography Compass, 18(10), e70003. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.70003
2024. Martina Fuchs, Johannes Westermeyer: Situated between headquarters and local environment: local managers' scope for action in training activities. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 20(1), 28-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-06-2023-0046
2023 Martina Fuchs, Andrew Cumbers: Digitalization and Labor Restructuring. ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography, 67(4), 173-176. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2023-0047
2023 Martina Fuchs, Johannes Westermeyer, Lena Finken: Evolutionary Dynamics. Multinational companies and dual education. BGL Berichte Geographie und Landeskunde 96(3), 238-258. https://doi.org/10.25162/bgl-2022-0017
2023 Matthias Pilz, Martina Fuchs, Junmin Li, Lena Finken, Johannes Westermeyer: Similar or Different Training Cultures? German and Chinese Companies in Their Home and Host Countries. Societies 13(5), 116. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13050116
2023 Martina Fuchs, Peter Dannenberg, Tatiana López, Cathrin Wiedemann, Tim Riedler: Location-specific labor control strategies in online retail. ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography, 67(4), 189-201. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2021-0028
2022 Martina Fuchs, Johannes Westermeyer, Lena Finken, Matthias Pilz: Foreign direct investment and local knowledge base: Embedding foreign subsidiaries in German dual vocational education and training. Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and Planning. 81(2), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.179
2022 Beke Vogelsang, Natascha Röhrer, Matthias Pilz, Martina Fuchs: Actors and factors in the international transfer of dual training approaches: The coordination of vocational education and training in Mexico from a German perspective. International Journal of Training and Development, 26(4), 646-663. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12279
2022 Martina Fuchs, Peter Dannenberg, Cathrin Wiedemann: Big Tech and Labor Resistance at Amazon. Science as Culture. 31(1), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2021.1937095
2022 Martina Fuchs: Knowledge transfer, power and empowerment: MNCs' transfer of vocational education and training to their international subsidiaries. The Earth, 153(1), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2022-587
2022 Martina Fuchs: MNCs' open international strategy-local dynamics: transfer of German "vocational education and training" to emerging economies. Critical perspectives on international business, 18(1), 97-114. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-12-2019-0106
2021 Martina Fuchs, Natascha Röhrer, Beke Vogelsang: Companies as local skill-providers? The 'skills ecosystem' in Mexico. Geography, 75(4), 295-306. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2021.04.03
2021 Beke Vogelsang, Natascha Röhrer, Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz: Cooperation Between Learning Venues and its Limits: The Hotel Industry in Cancún (Mexico). In: International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 8(4), 67-89. https://doi.org/10.13152/IJRVET.8.4.4
2021 Martina Fuchs: Editorial: The impact of skills and training on local development. International Journal of Training and Development. 25(4), 341-346. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12240
2021 Martina Fuchs, Johannes Westermeyer, Lena Finken, Matthias Pilz 2021: Training activities in subsidiaries of foreign multinational companies: Local embeddedness in Germany? International Journal of Training and Development. 25(4), 414-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12244
2021. Hans-Christian Busch, Caroline Mühl, Martina Fuchs & Martina Fromhold-Eisebith: Digital urban production: how does Industry 4.0 reconfigure productive value creation in urban contexts? Regional Studies, 55(10-11), 1801-1815. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1957460
2021 Natascha Röhrer, Beke Vogelsang, Martina Fuchs: The region matters-for whom? The regional actor network for vocational education and training in tourism of Cancún (Mexico). International Journal of Training and Development, 25(3), 244-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12217
2020 Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz, Beke Vogelsang, Natascha Röhrer: 'Bipolar' regional actor networks in vocational training in the hotel industry in Cancún (Mexico). Cologne Journal for "Economics and Pedagogy", 35(69), 61-84.
2020 Peter Dannenberg, Martina Fuchs, Tim Riedler, Cathrin Wiedemann: Digital Transition by COVID-19 Pandemic? The German Food Online Retail. TESG, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 111(3), 543-560. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12453
2020 Hans-Christian Busch, Caroline Mühl, Martina Fuchs, Martina Fromhold-Eisebith: Hybrid forms of urban production through digitalization? Trends and examples from North Rhine-Westphalia. Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and Planning, 78(2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.2478/rara-2020-0013
2020 Martina Fuchs: Does the Digitalization of Manufacturing Boost a 'Smart' Era of Capital Accumulation? ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography, 64(2), 47-57. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2019-0012
2019. Martina Fuchs: Work in Industry 4.0 - Regional Differences, Spatial Dependencies, Place-Making. AIS Studies, 12(2), 57-72. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.64946
2019. Judith Wiemann, Daniel Rodríguez Ventura, Martina Fuchs: Mexico - Training Made in Germany. Vocational training transfer in the context of regional development processes. Geographische Rundschau, 71(7/8), 30-33. https://www.westermann.de/anlage/4615347/Mexiko-Ausbildung-Made-in-Germany-Berufsbildungstransfer-im-Kontext-regionaler-Entwicklungsprozesse
2018. Boris Braun, Peter Dannenberg, Martina Fuchs, Javier Revilla Diez: Dynamics in an unequal world - a global perspective. Geographische Rundschau, 70(6), 50-53. https://www.westermann.de/anlage/4602503/Dynamiken-in-einer-ungleichen-Welt-eine-globale-Perspektive
2018. Peter Dannenberg, Boris Braun, Martina Fuchs, Javier Revilla Diez: Dynamics in an unequal world. Journal of Economic Geography, 62(2), 87-91. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2018-0009
2018. Martin Franz, Martina Fuchs, Sebastian Henn: Othering practices toward new firm owners: Empirical insights from South-North acquisitions in Germany. Journal of Economic Geography, 62(2),108-119. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2017-0037
2018. Judith Wiemann, Martina Fuchs: The export of Germany's "secret success" dual technical VET: MNCs and multiscalar stakeholders changing the skill formation system in Mexico. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 11(2), 373-386. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsy008
2016. Martina Fuchs, Jannes Tessmann: Loose coordination and relocation in a South-South value chain: cashew processing and trade in southern India and Ivory Coast. The Earth, 147(3), 209-218. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-147-17
2016. Martina Fuchs, Eike W. Schamp, Judith Wiemann: Dual education and training goes global? On the internationalization of knowledge in industrial manufacturing through global-local qualification strategies of multinational companies. Geographical Journal, 104(3) 140-157. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45174002
2016. Martina Fuchs, Martin Schalljo: 'Western' professional ethics challenged by foreign acquisitions: German managers' patterns of interpretation surrounding Chinese and Indian investors. Geoforum, 75(10), 20-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.06.017
2016 Martina Fuchs, Judith Wiemann: The participatory budget of Mexico City. Spatial-thematic pre-structuring of civic participation. Geographical Journal, 104(2), 92-111. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45174008
2016 Martina Fuchs: Labor market and demographic change. Geographical Review, 68(1), 4-11.
2013 Martina Fuchs, Boris Braun: European automotive industry: recent developments and challenges. Geographical Review, 65(6), 4-11.
2012 Martina Fuchs: Interpretation patterns as a contribution to the economic-geographical discussion on knowledge and institutions. Geographische Zeitschrift, 100(2), 65-83. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23337290
2012 Martina Fuchs, André Scharmanski: Rationality and Routines as Dynamic Capabilities? The Case of Property Investors. Urbani izziv, 23(Supplement 1) (Special Issue), 135-144. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=115340
2011 Martina Fuchs: The "crisis" from a metaphor-theoretical perspective. Journal of Economic Geography, 55(3), 175-187. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw.2011.0013
2009 Martina Fuchs, André Scharmanski: Counteracting path dependencies: 'rational' investment decisions in the globalizing commercial property market. Environment and Planning A, 41(11), 2724-2740. https://doi.org/10.1068/a41335
2008 Martina Fuchs: Subsidiaries of Multinational Companies: Foreign Locations Gaining Competencies? Geography Compass, 2(6), 1962-1973. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00161.x
2008 Martina Fuchs, André Scharmanski: 'Rational' Routines: The influence of economic models in the internationalization of office real estate investors. Geographical Journal, 96(3), 158-179. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27819149
2008 Martina Fuchs, Johannes Winter: Competencies in subsidiaries of multinational companies. The case of the automotive supply industry in Poland. Journal of Economic Geography, 52(4), 209-220. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw.2008.0016
2007 Alexandra Endres, Martina Fuchs: Knowledge acquisition through proximity? The example of Volkswagen suppliers in Mexico. Geographical Review, 59(1), 14-19.
2005 Martina Fuchs: Industries in the EU - Strategies and location patterns. Geographical Review, 57(12), 4-10.
2005 Martina Fuchs: Where does a car die? Value chains of end-of-life vehicles. Geographical Review, 57(2), 48-53.
2004 Martina Fuchs: Globalization of development and construction in automotive supply. ZfAW, Journal of Automotive Economics, 7(3), 16-22.
2003 Martina Fuchs. On the way to a new global division of competencies? On the internationalization of development and design in the German automotive supply industry. Erdkunde, 57(1), 55-66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25647525
2003 Martina Fuchs: Globalization, dependencies and decoupling: On the causation of poverty in Mexico. Geographical Review, 55(10), 20-25.
2003 Martina Fuchs: Governance in transnational corporations and value chains. Approaching a theoretical concept. Journal of Economic Geography, 47(3-4), 177-187. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw.2003.0015
2002 Christian Berndt, Martina Fuchs: Geography of Labor. A plea for an interdisciplinary research program. In: Geographische Zeitschrift, 90(3-4), 157-166. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27818947
2001 Martina Fuchs: The Effects of the Crisis of 1994/95 on the Mexican Labor Market: The Case of the City of Puebla. Urban Studies, 38(10), 1801-1818. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980120084868
1999 Martina Fuchs: Puebla - Effects of the 1994/95 economic crisis in a Mexican city. Geographical Review, 51(7-8) 388-392.
1996 Martina Fuchs: Mexico: Post-Fordist Regulation in the North American Accumulation Regime? Journal of Economic Geography, 40(1-2), 71-79. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw.1996.0006
1995 Martina Fuchs: New spatial interdependencies and changing labor relations in the "automobile" production system. The example of Puebla (Mexico). Journal of Economic Geography, 39(2), 124-132. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw.1995.0012
1993 Martina Fuchs: Post-Fordist approaches in a region characterized by Fordism. The example of Wolfsburg. Geographical Journal, 81(3), 145-156. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27818657
Books
2019. Michael Gessler, Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz (eds.): Concepts and effects of the transfer of dual vocational training. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23185-9
2017. Martina Fuchs, Sebastian Henn, Martin Franz, Ram Mudambi (Eds.): Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments. Building a Global Company. Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315681207
2014 Martina Fuchs: Worldwide Knowledge? Global Firms, Local Labor and the Region. Ashgate, Farnham/Burlington. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2016-0037
2012 Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina Fuchs (eds.): Industrial Transition. New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation. Ashgate, Farnham/Burlington.
1999. Martina Fuchs: Employment conditions and strategies of the population in Puebla (Mexico). Effects of the 1994/1995 crisis under consideration of globalization and national regulation. In: Geographisches Institut der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorfer Geographische Schriften, No. 38, self-published by HHU, Düsseldorf. Habilitation thesis.
1992. Martina Fuchs: Location and work process. Work changes through CAD in multisite companies. Goethe University Frankfurt (Main). Lit-Verlag, Münster/Hamburg. Dissertation.
Book contributions
2026. Martina Fuchs: Green Skills als Labour Agency für Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen. In: Doutch, M., Engelhardt, A., López, T., Premchander, S., Wenner M. (Eds.): Arbeitswelten. Neue Perspektiven aus Räumen der Re/Produktion. Springer, Berlin, 299- 314. https://www.springerprofessional.de/arbeitswelten/52066262
2025. Martina Fuchs and Judith Wiemann: International policy transfer and absorptive capacities: the transfer of German vocational education and training to Mexico, India and China. In: Valiente, O., Maitra, S., Gonon, P., Pilz, M. (Eds.): International Transfer of Dual Modes of Vocational Education and Training. National Recontextualization and Local Enactment. Routledge, London. Forthcoming.
2024 Martina Fuchs, Tatiana López, Cathrin Wiedemann, Tim Riedler, Peter Dannenberg, Peter: Digital work and the struggle for labor representation: the food and grocery online retail sector in Berlin (Germany). In: Vale, M., Ferreira, D., Rodrigues, N. (Eds.): Geographies of the platform economy. Critical perspectives. Springer Nature, Cham. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031535932
2024 Natascha Röhrer, Beke Vogelsang, Matthias Pilz, Martina Fuchs: Ownership by Local Actors: The Case of Dual Vocational Education in Mexico. In: Gessler, M. et al. (Eds.): Expanding Horizons: Research on the Internationalization of Vocational Education and Training. Springer, Wiesbaden, 143-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43742-8_7
2024 Martina Fuchs: International Transfer of Professional Ethic: Pattern of interpretation on German vocational education in Mexico. In: Kurscheid, C., Maier-Rigaud, R., Sauer, M. (eds.) Lebenslagen und Gemeinwohl. Festschrift for Frank Schulz-Nieswandt. Nomos, Baden-Baden, 177-184. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748941477-177.pdf
2023 Martina Fuchs, Johannes Westermeyer: Automotive industry. In: Kulke, E. (ed.): Economic Geography of Germany. 3rd edition. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg, 215-225. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65070-7_8
2022 Victoria Luxen, Michelle Zander, Cathrin Wiedemann, Martina Fuchs, Peter Dannenberg: Current characteristics of work and employment in German online retail. In: Appel, A., Hardaker, S. (eds.): Inner cities, retail and corona in Germany. University Press, Würzburg, 177-202. https://doi.org/10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-177-8
2021 Martina Fuchs: Spatial experience - suggestions from a geographical perspective. In: Mandel, C.; Thimm, P. (eds.): Experience: Implications for people, society and politics. Festschrift for Wolfgang Leidhold. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 171-179.
2019. Michael Gessler, Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz: International VET transfer in the light of German VET research: Like the genie out of the bottle. In: Gessler, M.; Fuchs, M.; Pilz, M. (eds.): Concepts and effects of the transfer of dual vocational education and training. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23185-9_1
2019. Kristina Wiemann, Junmin Li, Judith Wiemann, Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz: 'Lost (in) VET': On the status of transfer research in international VET cooperation from the perspective of various academic disciplines. In: Gessler, M.; Fuchs, M.; Pilz, M. (eds.): Concepts and effects of the transfer of dual vocational training. Springer VS, Wiesbaden,13-57. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23185-9_2
2019. Judith Wiemann, Kristina Wiemann, Matthias Pilz, Martina Fuchs: Dual training abroad: A 'home game'? On the qualification of production employees in German companies in China, India and Mexico. In: Gessler, M.; Fuchs, M.; Pilz, M. (eds.): Concepts and effects of the transfer of dual vocational training. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 359-393. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23185-9_10
2017. Martina Fuchs, Sebastian Henn, Martin Franz, Ram Mudambi: Introduction: Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments: Building a Global Company. In: Fuchs, M.; Henn, S.; Franz, M.; Mudambi, R. (Eds.): Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments. Building a Global Company. Routledge, London, 1-9. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315681207-1/introduction-martina-fuchs-sebastian-henn-martin-franz-ram-mudambi
2017. Martina Fuchs, Martin Schalljo: Behind the Scenes: Managers' Interpretations of Foreign Takeovers by Investors of Emerging Economies. In: Fuchs, M.; Henn, S.; Franz, M.; Mudambi, R. (Eds.): Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments. Building a Global Company. Routledge, London, 24-32. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315681207-1/introduction-martina-fuchs-sebastian-henn-martin-franz-ram-mudambi
2017. Martina Fuchs, Sebastian Henn, Martin Franz, Ram Mudambi: 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, London, 181-190. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315681207-1/introduction-martina-fuchs-sebastian-henn-martin-franz-ram-mudambi
2013 Martina Fuchs: What we talk about when we talk about space: Space as a pattern of interpretation and perspective of knowledge in the globalized world. In: Maletzky, M.; Seeliger, M.; Wannöffel, M. (eds.): Work, Organization and Mobility. A cross-border perspective. Campus, Frankfurt am Main, 29-45.
2013 Martina Fuchs: Chemical industry. In: Kraas, F.; Zehner, K.; Gelhar, M. (eds.): Köln und der Kölner Raum. A geographical excursion guide. Geographical Institute of the University of Cologne, Cologne (= Kölner Geographische Arbeiten 93), 53-58.
2013 Martina Fuchs, Manfred Rolfes: Space. In: Rolfes, M.; Uhlenwinkel, A. (eds.): Metzler Handbuch 2.0 Geographieunterricht. A guide for practice and education. Westermann, Braunschweig, 444-458.
2013 Martina Fuchs: Globalization. In: Rolfes, M.; Uhlenwinkel, A. (eds.): Metzler Handbuch 2.0 Geographieunterricht. A guide for practice and education. Westermann, Braunschweig, 319-325.
2013 Martina Fuchs: Labor markets and differences in prosperity. In: Gebhardt, H.; Glaser, R.; Lentz, S. (eds.): Europe - a geography. Springer, Berlin, 316-326. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-8274-2720-5
2012 Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina Fuchs: Changing Global-Local Dynamics of Economic Development? Coining the New Conceptual Framework of 'Industrial Transition'. In: Fromhold-Eisebith, M.; Fuchs, M. (eds.): Industrial Transition. New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation. Ashgate, Farnham/Burlington, 1-16.
2012. Martina Fuchs, Hanno Kempermann: Flexible Specialization - Thirty Years after the 'Second Industrial Divide': Lessons from the German Mechanical Engineering Industry in the Crisis 2008 to 2010. In: Fromhold-Eisebith, M.; Fuchs, M. (eds.): Industrial Transition. New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation. Ashgate, Farnham/Burlington, 65-79.
2012 Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina Fuchs: Conclusion: Towards a Refined Conceptualization of the Industrial Transition Approach in a Global-Local Context. In: Fromhold-Eisebith, M.; Fuchs, M. (eds.): Industrial Transition. New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation. Ashgate, Farnham/Burlington, 233-242.
2011 Martina Fuchs: Automotive industry in Germany. In: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography: National Atlas of Germany up to date (5). aktuell.nationalatlas.de/wp-content/uploads/11_12_Automobilindustrie.pdf
2010 Martina Fuchs, Dorit Meyer: Trade Unions as Learning Organizations? The Challenge of Attracting Temporary Staff. In: Bergene, A.C.; Endresen, S.B.; Knutsen, H.M. (eds.): Missing Links in Labor Geography. Ashgate, Farnham/Burlington, 99-111.
2010 Martina Fuchs: Automotive industry. In: Kulke, E. (ed.): Economic Geography of Germany. Spektrum, Heidelberg, 169-181. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-65070-7
2009 Martina Fuchs: Working and living on the waterfront - repurposing Duisburg's inner harbor. In: Prossek, A.; Schneider, H.; Wessel, A.H.; Wetterau, B.; Wiktorin, D. (eds.): Atlas der Metropole Ruhr: Vielfalt und Wandel des Ruhrgebiets im Kartenbild. Emons, 160-161.
2008 Martina Fuchs: Product upgrading and survival. The case of VW Navarra. In: Pellenbarg, P.; Wever, E. (eds.): International Business Geography. Case studies of corporate firms. Routledge, Abingdon/New York (= Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy), 216-233.
2006 Martina Fuchs: Building or Repairing Institutions: Microcredits in Argentina. In: Gatrell, J.D.; Reid, E. (eds.): Enterprising Worlds. A Geographic Perspective on Economics, Environments & Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht, 231-241.
2006 Martina Fuchs: European Periphery in Competition and the Restructuring of Industries in Southern and Eastern Europe: the Example of Volkswagen Navarra. In: Kulke, E.; Monheim, H.; Wittman, P. (eds.): GrenzWerte. Conference report and scientific papers. 55th German Geographers' Conference Trier 2005. German Society for Geography, Berlin/Leipzig/Trier, 119-128.
2006 Martina Fuchs: Trade unions and labor disputes. In: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (ed.): National Atlas of the Federal Republic of Germany. Elsevier, Munich, 66-67.
2006 Martina Fuchs: Unemployment and its consolidation. In: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (ed.): National Atlas of the Federal Republic of Germany. Elsevier, Munich, 42-45.
2005 Martina Fuchs: Globalization of R&D activities in the automotive supply industry? In: Pries, L.; Hertwig, M. (eds.): Deutsche Autoproduktion im globalen Wandel. Old industry in reverse gear or high-tech sector with a future? Edition Sigma, Berlin, 85-103.
2005 Martina Fuchs: Internal Networking in the Globalizing Firm: The Case of R&D Allocation in German Automobile Component Supply Companies. In: Alvstam, C.G.; Schamp, E.W. (eds.): Linking Industries Across the World. Processes of Global Networking. Ashgate, Aldershot/Burlington, 127-146.
2005 Martina Fuchs: Borders and the internationalization of knowledge. Two examples from the automobile components supply sector in Poland. In: van Vilsteren, G.; Wever, E. (eds.): Borders and economic behavior in Europe. A geographical approach. Royal Van Gorcum, Assen, 43-61.
2004 Martina Fuchs: Regional policy. In: Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (ed.): Niedersachsen-Lexikon. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden, 236-239.
2003 Martina Fuchs: "Learning" in Automobile Components Supply Companies. The Maquiladora of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. In: Lo, V.; Schamp, E.W. (eds.): Knowledge, Learning, and Regional Development. Lit-Verlag, Münster/Hamburg/London, 107-130.
2003 Martina Fuchs: Learning processes and governance in a new node of the world system. In: Kappel, R.; Dornberger, U.; Meier, M.; Rietdorf, U. (eds.): Small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. The challenge of globalization. German Overseas Institute, Hamburg, 239-255.
2002 Martina Fuchs: Local learning in a globally integrated region: Research and development in northern Mexico. In: Manske, F.; Ahrens, D.; Deitmer L. (eds.): Innovation potentials and barriers in and through networks. Documentation of a workshop (IT+B Working Papers No. 40). Institute Technology + Education, University of Bremen, Bremen, 7-20.
2000 Martina Fuchs: Duisburg Inner Harbor: "Waterfront Redevelopment". Effects on population and urban ecology. In: Eckart, E.; Neuhof, E.; Neuhoff, O. (eds.): Das vereinigte Deutschland auf dem Weg in das 21. Jahrhundert. Challenges and opportunities for geography teaching. Proceedings of the 27th German School Geographers' Conference, October 2-7, 2000 in Duisburg. Westermann, Braunschweig, 62-68.
1999 Martina Fuchs: An open concept: the "learning region" - the example of the Ruhr area. Discussion on new approaches in regional policy. In: Kommunalverband Ruhrgebiet (ed.): Locations. Yearbook Ruhr Area 1999/2000. Klartext Verlag, Essen, 168-178.
1999 Martina Fuchs: The labor market in Mexico and its institutions. Problems of conceptual coverage and attempts to approach the reality of life using the example of the city of Puebla. In: Klauke, B. (ed.): Mexico: Current Situation and Future Prospects in Economics and Politics. Working Papers of the Latin America Center No. 54, Volume III. Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster, 6-34.
1999. Martina Fuchs: Effects of the crisis of 1994/95 on the manufacturing industry in Puebla: changes in firms and on the local labor markets. In: van Dijk, J.; Pellenbarg, P.H. (eds.): Demography of Firms. Spatial Dynamics of Firm Behavior. Nederlandse Geografische Studies, No. 262, Faculteit der Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Utrecht/Groningen, 205-214.
1998 Martina Fuchs: "Behind the tracks: Living and working in Oberbilk". Qualitative methods for approaching an inner-city neighborhood. In: Glebe, G.; Schneider, H. (eds.): Local Transformation Processes in the Global City. Düsseldorf-Oberbilk - Structural change of a district close to the city center. Düsseldorfer Geographische Schriften, No. 37, self-published by HHU, Düsseldorf, 235-257.
1997. Martina Fuchs: Nuevas interdependencias locales y cambios en las relaciones de trabajo en el sistema de producción automotriz. El ejemplo de Volkswagen de México, Puebla. In: Anuario 96. Estudios Sociales. El Colegio de Puebla, Puebla, 77-93.
1996. Martina Fuchs: Job loss in a telecommunications firm: locational shifts and employment effects of Alcatel SEL. In: van der Knaap, G.A.; Wever, E. (eds.): Industrial organization: the firm and its labour market. Nederlandse Geografische Studies, No. 207, Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, 92-100.
1996 Martina Fuchs: Qualification as capital in a semi-periphery of the world system. The example of Mexico. In: Heinritz, G.; Kulke, E.; Wießner, R. (eds.): 50th German Geographers' Conference Potsdam 1995. Volume 3, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 123-132.
1996 Martina Fuchs: NAFTA, spatial divisions of labour in Mexico, and manufacturing strategies in an older industrialized region, Puebla. In: Anuario 95. Estudios Sociales. El colegio de Puebla, Puebla, 225-239.
1995 Martina Fuchs: "Culture" and critical appropriation of space: The example of the early spinning industry in Ratingen. In: Jüngst, P.; Meder, O. (eds.): Aggressiveness and Seduction, Monumentality and Territory. Taming the unconscious through planning and aesthetic forms? URBS ET REGIO, Kasseler Schriften zur Geographie und Planung, vol. 1995, no. 62, 166-180.
1990 Martina Fuchs, Eike Schamp: Standard Elektrik Lorenz. Introducing CAD into a telecommunications firm: its impact on labor. In: de Smidt, M.; Wever, E. (eds.): The Corporate Firm in a Changing World Economy. Case Studies in the Geography of Enterprise. Routledge, London/New York, 77-99.
Practical contributions
2024 Lena Finken, Martina Fuchs, Johannes Westermeyer, Matthias Pilz: Ausbilden, nein danke? : Findings on the training behavior of foreign companies in Germany. Pädagogische Rundschau 78(3), 347-364. https://doi.org/10.3726/PR032024.0025
2023. Martina Fuchs, Peter Dannenberg, Tim Riedler and Cathrin Wiedemann: Online trade: labor control and co-determination in metropolitan regions, Hans Böckler Foundation, Working Paper Research Funding, Number 279, March 2023. https://www.boeckler.de/fpdf/HBS-008574/p_fofoe_WP_279_2023.pdf
2023 Cathrin Wiedemann, Sebastian Dederichs, Martina Fuchs, Tim Riedler, Jasmin Zimmermann and Peter Dannenberg: Development of German online food retailing in times of the coronavirus pandemic. Hans Böckler Foundation, Working Paper Research Funding, Number 280, March 2023. https://www.boeckler.de/fpdf/HBS-008573/p_fofoe_WP_280_2023.pdf
2022 Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz: The local embedding of vocational training activities of medium-sized German subsidiaries in Mexico. In: DLR Project Management Agency [ed.] Vocational Education and Training International: Environments, Bonn, pp. 51-53.
2022 Matthias Pilz, Beke Vogelsang, Martina Fuchs, Natascha Röhrer: Actor networks to promote vocational education in the Mexican tourism sector. Institute of Economic and Social Geography, University of Cologne. (= Working Paper No. 2022-01)
2021. Martina Fuchs, Peter Dannenberg, Tim Riedler, Cathrin Wiedemann: Marktführer des Online-Handels Wirkungen auf Arbeit und Beschäftigung in Deutschland, Study 463, Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, https://www.boeckler.de/fpdf/HBS-008061/p_study_hbs_463.pdf
2021 Matthias Pilz, Beke Vogelsang, Martina Fuchs, Natascha Röhrer: Actor networks to promote vocational education in the Mexican tourism sector. In: Education and occupation, 4(9), 301-306.
2020 Natascha Röhrer, Beke Vogelsang, Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz: Green Skills in the vocational training landscape of Cancún (Mexico). In: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Eds.): Vocational Education and Training International, 51-53.
2019. Martina Fuchs: Industry 4.0: Digital production technologies - a revolution? Practice Geography, 49(11), 31-35.
2019. Caroline Mühl, Hans-Christian Busch, Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina Fuchs: Urban production: Dynamization of city-regional labour markets through digitalization and Industry 4.0? FGW study (long version) Digitalization of work 14.
2019. Caroline Mühl, Hans-Christian Busch, Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina Fuchs: Urban production: Dynamization of city-regional labour markets through digitalization and Industry 4.0? FGW-Impuls Digitalization of Work 14.
2017. Caroline Mühl, Hans-Christian Busch, Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina Fuchs: 'Urban production': Dynamization of city-regional labour markets through digitalization and Industry 4.0? Institute of Economic and Social Geography, University of Cologne. (= Working Paper No. 2017-01) https://dbe.uni-koeln.de/sites/dep_business_education/wigeo/Veroeffentlichungen/Working_Paper/WP_2022-01.pdf
2017. Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz, Judith Wiemann, Kristina Wiemann: Qualification for "Industry 4.0". Skilled labor in Germany and German foreign subsidiaries in emerging economies. In: Location, 41(2), 88-92.
2017. Martina Fuchs, Martin Schalljo: From honeymoon to distant partnership. German managers in international M&A. In: Location, 41(1), 9-13. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00548-017-0463-3
2017. Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz, Judith Wiemann, Kristina Wiemann: Local traces of dual vocational training - trainees in Mexico, India and China. In: Practice Geography, 47(2), 56-57.
2016. Martina Fuchs, Matthias Pilz, Kristina Wiemann, Judith Wiemann: Training activities of German companies abroad: the same procedure as everywhere? In: Vocational education and training, No. 161, pp. 44-46.
2011 Martina Fuchs: Risks of global value chains: Measures and learning processes in German metal companies after the disaster in Japan in March 2011. Institute of Economic and Social Geography, University of Cologne. (= Working Paper No. 2011-01) https://dbe.uni-koeln.de/sites/dep_business_education/wigeo/Veroeffentlichungen/Working_Paper/WP_2011-01.pdf
2010. Martina Fuchs, Hanno Kempermann: Regional activity profiles for securing employment during the 2008/2009 crisis. Examples from the mechanical engineering sector in the association region of eastern Stuttgart and in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein. Institute of Economic and Social Geography, University of Cologne. (= Working Paper No. 2010-03) https://dbe.uni-koeln.de/sites/dep_business_education/wigeo/Veroeffentlichungen/Working_Paper/WP_2010-03.pdf
2010. Martina Fuchs, Hanno Kempermann: Regional effects of the 2008/2009 crisis in mechanical engineering. Institute of Economic and Social Geography, University of Cologne. (= Working Paper No. 2010-02) https://dbe.uni-koeln.de/sites/dep_business_education/wigeo/Veroeffentlichungen/Working_Paper/WP_2010-02.pdf
2008 Martina Fuchs, Johannes Winter: Skills acquisition in subsidiaries of international companies: Examples from the Polish automotive industry - a project report. Institute of Economic and Social Geography, University of Cologne. (= Working Paper No. 2008-03) https://dbe.uni-koeln.de/sites/dep_business_education/wigeo/Veroeffentlichungen/Working_Paper/WP_2008-03.pdf
2008 Martina Fuchs, Dorit Meyer: Dynamic Capabilities - Multi-locational & Multi-scalar Attracting Temporary Staff as Union Members in Germany. Department of Economic and Social Geography, University of Cologne. (= Working Paper No. 2008-02 english) https://dbe.uni-koeln.de/sites/dep_business_education/wigeo/Veroeffentlichungen/Working_Paper/WP_2008-02en.pdf
2008 Martina Fuchs, André Scharmanski: The arduous overcoming of path dependencies: The struggle for "rational" decisions by international office real estate investors. Institute of Economic and Social Geography, University of Cologne. (= Working Paper No. 2008-01) https://dbe.uni-koeln.de/sites/dep_business_education/wigeo/Veroeffentlichungen/Working_Paper/WP_2008-01.pdf
2007 Martina Fuchs, Nina Rodmann: François Perroux (1903-1987). Domination and growth poles. In: eins Entwicklungspolitik Information Nord Süd, 2007(12), 56-58.
2006 Martina Fuchs: The globalized location. In: Praxis Geographie, 36(1), 4-6.
2003 Martina Fuchs, Anke Uhlenwinkel: Industrial geography in a "post-industrial" society. In: Praxis Geographie, 33(2), 4-8.
2003 Martina Fuchs, Michael Giese: The cautious R&D internationalization of automotive suppliers. In: WSI Mitteilungen, 56(11), 679-685.
2003 Martina Fuchs, Michael Giese: Global division of labor - transnational division of competences. Examples from the automotive supply industry. In: INEF Report (Institute for Development and Peace of the Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg), 2003(73).
2001 Martina Fuchs: Ciudad Juárez - "Capital of the Maquiladora". Transnational industries and urban development in northern Mexico. In: Praxis Geographie, 31(9), 24-28.
2001 Martina Fuchs: Transnational learning processes in Cd. Juárez, Mexico. From maquiladora to node in the global industrial network. In: INEF Report (Institute for Development and Peace of the Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg), 2001(53).
2001 Martina Fuchs: From the "learning region" to the "learning organization" - regional development in a global context. In: INEF Report (Institute for Development and Peace of the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg), 2001(52).
2000 Martina Fuchs: From the "breadbasket of the Ruhr" to "waterfront redevelopment". Revitalization of the Duisburg inner harbour. In: Praxis Geographie, 30(2), 10-14.
1999. Martina Fuchs: Workshop for the future of industrial regions. The International Building Exhibition (IBA) Emscher Park in the northern Ruhr area. In: Praxis Geographie, 29(10), 46-49.
1997 Martina Fuchs: Globalization and financial market development - a topic for geography lessons. In: Zeitschrift für den Erdkundeunterricht, 49(9), 310-315.
1996 Martina Fuchs, Anke Uhlenwinkel: "What I want most for the future". Career goals of young people in Mexico and Germany. In: Geography today, 17(145), 40-41.
1995 Martina Fuchs: Regulation and world system approach. Maquiladora industry in Mexico. In: Geography and School, 17(94), 34-38.
1994 Martina Fuchs: "Behind the tracks": Living and working in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk. In: Düsseldorfer Uni-Zeitung, 23(6), 13.
1990. Martina Fuchs: Old locations - new products. It all comes down to human labor. In: Standort - Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geographie, 14(2-3), 3-7.
Book reviews
2024. Martina Fuchs: Book review of: Affolderbach, Julia; Schulz, Christian (2024): Economic geographies of sustainability. In: Spatial research and spatial planning. Online First: https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.2578
2023 Martina Fuchs: Book review of: Liefner, Ingo; Losacker, Sebastian (2023): Sustainable Economic Geography", Spatial Research and Planning Spatial Research and Planning. EN. https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.169
2016 Martina Fuchs: Strategic Coupling. East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy [by H.W. Yeung]. In: Journal of Economic Geography, 60(3), 151.
2016. Martina Fuchs: BRIC investments in Germany. Opportunities and risks for companies and employees [by M. Franz, S. Henn & J. Weingarten (eds.)]. In: Journal of Economic Geography, 60(3), 151-152.
2014 Martina Fuchs: Innovation in Socio-Cultural Context [by A. Frane & H. Westlund (Eds.)]. In: Regional Studies, 48(6), 1158-1159.
2010. Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Martina Fuchs, Britta Klagge: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 [by P. Krugman]. In: Regional Studies, 44(3), 383-385.
2008. Martina Fuchs: Regional Planning and Land Development - Reform Options for a Traditional Policy Field [by J.J. Hesse]. In: Journal of Public and Non-Profit Enterprises, 31(1), 102.
2003. Martina Fuchs: Cuba's way out of the crisis: Reorganization of the production of goods and services for export [by G. Mertins & H. Nuhn (eds.)]. In: Journal of Economic Geography, 47(2),134-135.
2002 Martina Fuchs: Globalization and regional labour markets [by A. Schmid, S. Krömmelbein, C. Heinrich, A. Schulz & J. Caspar]. In: Geographische Zeitschrift, 90(2), 126-127.
2001 Martina Fuchs: On the reorientation of regional research - a conceptual contribution [by R. Danielzyk]. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde, 75(1), 91-92.
2001 Martina Fuchs: Regional management and regional marketing. Theoretical foundations of communicative regional planning [by T. Jekel]. In: Journal of Economic Geography, 45(3-4), 263.
2001 Martina Fuchs: "I have not changed the world". Memoirs of a pioneer of social research [by Marie Jahoda, ed. by S. Engler & B. Hasenjürgen]. In: Journal of Economic Geography, 45(1), 67-68.
1997. Martina Fuchs: Labor Market Geography: Employment and Unemployment in a Spatial Context [by H. Fassmann & P. Meusburger]. In: Geographische Zeitschrift, 85(4), 249-253.