Transnational elites in global cities: British expatriates in Singapore's financial district

Beaverstock, Jonathan V.

doi:10.1016/s0016-7185(02)00036-2

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“…Of course, it is possible that our business travel connectivity variable is simply capturing a broader set of influences related to trade and FDI. Still, our study provides the first large-N, statistical evidence supporting case-study literature which has documented a role for business travel in diffusing new knowledge, organizational practices and norms across territorial boundaries (Beaverstock, 2002;Jones, 2007).…”

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Geographic Variations in the Early Diffusion of Corporate Voluntary Standards: Comparing ISO 14001 and the Global Compact

2010

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Despite their availability to firms across the world, uptake of global voluntary standards has proceeded unevenly across countries over time. In this article, we seek to provide new insights into how geography shapes these spatio-temporal variations, focusing on two leading examples of codified voluntarism: ISO14001 and the Global Compact (GC).Advancing on previous quantitative studies, which have analyzed domestic and nondomestic influences separately, we examine how the internal attributes of place "condition" the influence of transnational spatial interdependencies. We find that higher levels of ISO14001 certification in other economies are more likely to spillover (via transnational linkages) into higher domestic uptake of the standard in wealthier economies, while domestic receptivity to the influence of higher GC adoptions abroad is greater in more democratic countries. Another important advance on previous studies is that we examine the influence of a larger number of measures of transnational economic linkage. Providing evidence of "trading-up" and "investing-up" dynamics, we show that higher densities of ISO14001 certificates and GC participants in a country's export and inward FDI partners is associated with higher levels of domestic uptake of the respective standard. We also find tentative evidence of "visiting-up" dynamics associated with the cross-border movement of businesspeople.2

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Geographic Variations in the Early Diffusion of Corporate Voluntary Standards: Comparing ISO 14001 and the Global Compact

2010

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“…Transnational experiences were valued by individuals as contributing to career development because they facilitated the accumulation of intellectual and social capital. Research in London, Singapore and other world cities has confirmed the importance of such knowledge transactions to both the individuals and companies, whilst exploring different workplace and social arenas in which these are situated (for example, Beaverstock 2002). Whilst recognizing that knowledge is socially situated, this approach necessarily is narrowly focused on higher-level management and professionals.…”

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International labour migration and tacit knowledge transactions: a multi‐level perspective

Williams

2006

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There has been limited research on the role of international migration in the transfer of tacit knowledge, as opposed to skills and capital. In part, this results from lack of engagement between research on migration and that on knowledge and learning, even in debates concerning the relative importance of distanciated versus localised knowledge transfers. However, positioning international migration in relation to the literature on knowledge management opens up new perspectives on its role in the overall transfer of knowledge in the economy. Starting from the premise that all tacit knowledge transactions are socially situated, this paper sets out a multi-level approach to understanding the role of migrants in knowledge exchanges. The national, the urban and the firm constitute key levels in this analysis, although these are understood as inter-folded rather than as discrete sites of analysis.3

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“…There is a growing body of work on retirement migration and lifestyle migration (Benson, 2010;King, Warnes, Warnes & Williams, 2000;Oliver, 2008;Oliver & O'Reilly, 2010;O'Reilly, 2000), student migration (Findlay, King, Stam & Ruiz-Gelices, 2006;King & Ruiz-Gelices, 2003) and return migration from Britain . There is also a small body of work on elite migration: on the transnational elites who populate the global cities so beloved of urban studies (Beaverstock, 2002(Beaverstock, , 2005Scott, 2006;Yeoh & Willis, 2005), while a recent focus on 'postcolonial migration' includes work on British migration to former colonies such as Hong Kong and Dubai (Coles & Walsh, 2010;Leonard, 2010). However, the overwhelming sense is of Britain as a place people immigrate to rather than emigrate from.…”

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British migrants and Irish anxieties

Gilmartin

2013

Social Identities

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There is a long history of migration from Britain to Ireland, but it is rarely theorised as migration. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources as well as ongoing qualitative research, this paper makes visible the extended presence of British nationals, as migrants, in Ireland. In discussing the conflicted geographies of belonging of recent British migrants to Ireland, the paper highlights the ways in which postcolonial and nationalist discourses may suggest boundaries to belonging. However, these boundaries are undermined by the positioning of British migrants as not-quite-migrants in the changing landscape of migration in contemporary Ireland.

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Transnational elites in global cities: British expatriates in Singapore's financial district

Cited by 393 publications

References 26 publications

Geographic Variations in the Early Diffusion of Corporate Voluntary Standards: Comparing ISO 14001 and the Global Compact

Geographic Variations in the Early Diffusion of Corporate Voluntary Standards: Comparing ISO 14001 and the Global Compact

International labour migration and tacit knowledge transactions: a multi‐level perspective

British migrants and Irish anxieties

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