Research focuses

Transnational Companies, Global Value Chains, Innovation, Digitalization, Start-ups and their Spatial Impacts, Regional Sustainability, Labour Geography, Ethics (Regional Social Responsibility), Emerging Economies, Global South, European Union

Curriculum vitae

• Since 2004 Full Professor at the University of Cologne, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
• 2002 - 2004 Full Professor in Human Geography at the University of Lüneburg
• 2000 - 2002 Researcher at the University of Duisburg
• 1999 - 2000 Deputy professor in Human Geography, University of Cologne
• 1993 - 1999 Assistant and habilitation, University of Düsseldorf
• 1991 - 1993 Volkswagen AG, European Works Council, Wolfsburg
• 1988 - 1991 Scholarship for Dissertation and Ph.D., University of Frankfurt/Main

Selected publications

Beiträge in referierten Zeitschriften

• Fuchs, M 2025: Editorial: Skills for Local Sustainability Transformations and Development. International Journal of Training and Development. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.70001
• Fuchs, M., Koller, F., Link, H., Ziller, C. 2025: ‘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
• Zander, M., Dannenberg, P., Fuchs, M. 2024: New Logistics Locations in Online and Hybrid Food Retail – The Example of Cologne. Raumforschung und Raumordnung. Online First. https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/2572
• Fuchs, M. 2024: Green Skills for Sustainability Transitions. Geography Compass, 18(10), e70003. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.70003
• Fuchs, M., Westermeyer, J. 2024: Situated between headquarters and local environment: local managers’ scope for action in training activities. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 20(1), 28-48. https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-06-2023-0046
• Fuchs, M., Cumbers, A. 2023: Digitalization and Labor Restructuring. ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 67(4), 173-176. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2023-0047
• Fuchs, M., Dannenberg, P., López, T., Wiedemann, C., Riedler, R. 2023: Location-specific labour control strategies in online retail. ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 67(4), 189-201. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2021-0028
• Fuchs, M., Westermeyer, J., Finken, L. Pilz, M. 2022: Foreign direct investment and local knowledge base: Embedding foreign subsidiaries in German dual vocational education and training. Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning. Online First. https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.179
• Fuchs, M., Dannenberg, P. & Wiedemann, C. 2022: Big Tech and Labour Resistance at Amazon. Science as Culture. 31(1), 29-43, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2021.1937095
• Fuchs, M. 2022: Knowledge transfer, power and empowerment: MNCs’ transfer of vocational education and training to their international subsidiaries. Die Erde, 153(1), 15-27 https://www.die-erde.org/index.php/die-erde/article/view/587/
• Fuchs, M. 2022: 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