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T1 - Advanced producer service firms as strategic networks, global cities as strategic places
AU - Taylor, Peter J.
AU - Derudder, Ben
AU - Faulconbridge, James
AU - Hoyler, Michael
AU - Ni, Pengfei
N1 - This is a pre-print of an article published in Economic Geography, 90 (3), 2014. (c) Wiley.
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - Sassen’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. 25 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 advanced producer services are: Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai; Palo Alto; Mexico City; Johannesburg; and Dubai and Frankfurt.
AB - Sassen’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. 25 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 advanced producer services are: Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai; Palo Alto; Mexico City; Johannesburg; and Dubai and Frankfurt.
KW - advanced producer services
KW - global cities
KW - London
KW - New York
KW - strategic places
KW - world city network
U2 - 10.1111/ecge.12040
DO - 10.1111/ecge.12040
M3 - Journal article
VL - 90
SP - 267
EP - 291
JO - Economic Geography
JF - Economic Geography
SN - 0013-0095
IS - 3
ER -