Dr. Franz Flögel

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2025

2025:  

Beyond start-up formation: Effects of entrepreneurial ecosystem support activities for developing lagging regions

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Flögel, F., Letonja, M., Meyer, K., Rabadjieva, M., Vilman, Z., Zhekova, R., Zlateva, M. & Butzin, A. (2025): Beyond start-up formation: Effects of entrepreneurial ecosystem support activities for developing lagging regions. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 2025, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/02690942241311805

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2024

2024:  

Regional banks and economic resilience: the impact of the global financial crisis and COVID-19 on countries with decentralised and centralised banking systems

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Flögel, F. & Hejnova, T. (2024): Regional banks and economic resilience: the impact of the global financial crisis and COVID-19 on countries with decentralised and centralised banking systems. Finance and Space, 1 (1), 460-488. https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115X.2024.2418860

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2023

2023:  

High-tech development for "left behind" places: lessons-learnt from the Ruhr cybersecurity ecosystem

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Butzin, A. & Flögel, F. (2023): High-tech development for "left behind" places: lessons-learnt from the Ruhr cybersecurity ecosystem. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 17 (2), 307-322. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad041

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Unlike development strategies for prosperous regions and their prioritisation of high-tech sectors, alternative strategies for left behind places are suggested that shift to foundational economies, community-based social innovation and well-being. While we support this emphasis, we see a tendency to neglect the role of change agents engaged with research and teaching in high-tech domains for initiating new regional growth paths. This study shows how initial funding has promoted change agents and the emergence of today’s cybersecurity ecosystem in the old industrial region of the Ruhr. The ecosystem generates fast-growing high-tech start-ups and contributes to positive regional identification. Our paper suggests combining alternative development strategies and the support of change agency from high-tech domains to develop left behind places.

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2023

2023:  

Injecting climate finance into SME lending in Germany: Opportunities for and limitations of regional savings and cooperative Banks

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Flögel, F. (2023): Injecting climate finance into SME lending in Germany: Opportunities for and limitations of regional savings and cooperative Banks. ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 2023, 13. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2022-0011

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2020

2020:  

The COVID-19 pandemic and relationship banking in Germany: Will regional banks cushion an economic decline or is a banking crisis looming?

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Flögel, F. & Gärtner, S. (2020): The COVID-19 pandemic and relationship banking in Germany: Will regional banks cushion an economic decline or is a banking crisis looming? Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12440

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2019

2019:  

Will FinTech make regional banks superfluous for small firm finance? Observations from soft information-based lending in Germany

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Beckamp, M. & Flögel, F. (2019): Will FinTech make regional banks superfluous for small firm finance? Observations from soft information-based lending in Germany. Economic notes: review of banking, finance and monetary economics, 48 (3), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecno.12159

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2018

2018:  

Distance and modern banks’ lending to SMEs: ethnographic insights from a comparison of regional and large banks in Germany

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Flögel, F. (2018): Distance and modern banks’ lending to SMEs: ethnographic insights from a comparison of regional and large banks in Germany. Journal of economic geography , 18 (1), 35-57.

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2018

2018:  

Lost diversity: business lending in the centralised banking system of the UK

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Flögel, F. & Gärtner, S. (2018): Lost diversity: business lending in the centralised banking system of the UK. Vierteljahreshefte für Wirtschaftsforschung, 87 (4), 67-86.

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2017

2017:  

Bank branches as places of knowledge creation: conceptual considerations and empirical findings at the micro-geographical scale

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Flögel, F. & Zademach, H. (2017): Bank branches as places of knowledge creation: conceptual considerations and empirical findings at the micro-geographical scale. ERDKUNDE – Archive for Scientific Geography, 71 (4), 301-312.

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2015

2015:  

The new realist ontology: metatheoretical foundation for research of modern finance?

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Flögel, F. (2015): The new realist ontology: metatheoretical foundation for research of modern finance? Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 59 (4), 230-242.

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