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Advanced producer service firms as strategic networks, global cities as strategic places
journal contribution
posted on 2014-09-05, 14:48 authored by Peter J. Taylor, Ben Derudder, James R. Faulconbridge, Michael HoylerMichael Hoyler, Pengfei NiSassen's identification of global cities as "strategic places" is explored through world city network analysis. This involves searching out advanced producer service (APS) firms that constitute "strategic networks," from whose activities strategic places can be defined. Twenty-five out of 175 APS firms are found to be strategic, and from their office networks, 45 cities out of 526 are designated as strategic places. A measure of "strategicness" of cities is devised, and individual findings from this are discussed by drawing on existing literature about how APS firms use specific cities. A key finding shows that New York and London have different levels of strategicness, and this is related to the former's innovation prowess and the latter's role in global consumption of services. Other cases of strategicness discussed in terms of the balance between production and consumption of APSs are Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai; Palo Alto; Mexico City; Johannesburg; and Dubai and Frankfurt. © 2013 Clark University.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Economic GeographyVolume
90Issue
3Pages
267 - 291Citation
TAYLOR, P.J. ... et al, 2014. Advanced producer service firms as strategic networks, global cities as strategic places. Economic Geography, 90 (3), pp. 267 - 291Publisher
Wiley / © Clark UniversityVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Economic Geography on 11th Dec 2013, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecge.12040ISSN
0013-0095eISSN
1944-8287Publisher version
Language
- en