The Urban Geography of Subsidiary Headquarters in North America: Explorations by sector and Foreign Linkage

Exploring Economic Development Through Headquarters: The Spatial Distribution of Turkey's Large Industrial Enterprises and Its Implications for Urban Systems

“…Some scholars have paid particular attention to the HQs of firms by examining their decision-making abilities and strategic functions within cities (Chandler 1990;Rice and Pooler 2009;Rice 2010;Tonts and Taylor 2010). They argue that the spatial concentration of HQs remains important within national urban systems as cities with more HQs are more influential and powerful.…”

Location and agglomeration of headquarters of publicly listed firms within China’s urban system

“…Since the 1990s, however, there has been a resurgent interest in the topic. Most studies have focused on countries with larger territories, e.g., the United States (Ono, 2006;Shilton & Stanley, 1999), Australia (Tonts & Taylor, 2010, 2011, Europe (Bel & Fageda, 2008), and Canada (Meyer & Green, 2003;Rice, 2010;Rice & Pooler, 2009). …”

“…Although attention in recent years has focused on world cities in networks of corporate power (Pereira & Derudder, 2010;Taylor, 2005;Taylor & Aranya, 2008;Taylor, Catalano, & Walker, 2002), it is still important to analyze the distribution of headquarters among cities within national urban systems-the central concern of the urban-systems literature since the 1960s (Pred, 1980;Rice, 2010;Rice & Pooler, 2009;Tonts & Taylor, 2010). However, little attention has been directed towards the geography of headquarters within developing countries, although some studies have investigated the headquarters of multinational corporations in China (Wang et al, 2011;Zhao, Cai, & Zhang, 2005;Zhao, Zhang, & Wang, 2004).…”

“…Pan and Y. Xia In addition, regional or subsidiary headquarters and their relations with firm strategy and local development have also attracted research interest (Edgington & Hayter, 2013;Rice, 2010;Rice & Pooler, 2009;Wang et al, 2011;Zhao et al, 2004). For example, US subsidiary headquarters have different metropolitan distributions compared with parent headquarters in the 1996-2004 period; the pace of growth also differed between parent and subsidiary locations (Rice & Pooler, 2009).…”

Building a “Headquarters Economy”: The geography of headquarters within Beijing and its implications for urban restructuring

“…Most of them have focused on the distribution of HQ among different cities (Bel & Fageda, 2008;Klier, 2006;Meyer & Green, 2003;Pan & Xia, 2014;Rice, 2010;Rice & Lyons, 2010;Tonts & Taylor, 2011, 2010. Theoretical and empirical research suggests that HQ are highly agglomerated in metropolitan areas in western countries (Davis & Henderson, 2008;Henderson & Ono, 2008;Lovely, Rosenthal, & Sharma, 2005;Strauss-Kahn & Vives, 2009).…”