World City Network Integration in the Eurasian Realm

Bassens, David; Derudder, Ben; Taylor, Peter J.; Ni, Pei; Hoyler, Michael; Huang, Jin; Witlox, Frank

doi:10.2747/1539-7216.51.3.385

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“…This literature builds upon the concept that global cities are part of a process of servicing global capital through advanced producer service firms (e.g., accounting, advertising, finance, insurance, and law). These service firms weave cities into a global network, such that intra‐firm flows of information, knowledge, and direction can be estimated from the size and functions of pairs of city offices (Taylor, ), an approach that has been widely applied to analyse inter‐urban connectivity in different contexts (Bassens et al, ; Hoyler et al, ; Huang et al, ; Taylor and Aranya, ).…”

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Global Cities, Connectivity, and the Location Choice of MNC Regional Headquarters

Belderbos

Goerzen

2017

J Management Studies

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Regional headquarters (RHQs) perform a crucial bridging function between corporate headquarters, regional affiliates, and other regional actors. Their bridging role and associated connectivity needs lead MNCs to locate their RHQs in highly connected 'global cities'. We examine how the interplay between global city connectivity, geographic distance, and RHQ roles determine the likelihood that particular cities are chosen as a location for MNCs' RHQ investments. Our inferences are based on an analysis of location choices for 1031 RHQs among 48 global cities. We find that while the geographic distance of a global city to the MNC's regional affiliates diminishes the likelihood that a given city is chosen, these distance effects disappear when the global city is highly connected. Well connected global cities, furthermore, attract investment in RHQs by MNCs from more distant countries-oforigin. On average, city connectivity is a more important characteristic for RHQs that have an entrepreneurial role.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Cities, Connectivity, and the Location Choice of MNC Regional Headquarters

Belderbos

Goerzen

2017

J Management Studies

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“…First, the CEE capital city regions are better embedded in international investment and trade networks than the other CEE cities and regions (Karreman 2009;Bassens et al 2010). Foreign direct investment and trade allow regions to grow faster by providing the required funding for capital projects that create jobs, enabling the transfer of new technologies, improving the productivity and the ability of firms to produce new products, expanding the scale of production by reaching new markets, and integrating into global production sharing networks.…”

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Functional and Sectoral Division of Labour within Central and Eastern European Countries: Evidence from Greenfield FDI

Dogaru

Burger

Karreman

et al. 2014

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIn this paper, we analyse the sectoral and functional division of labour in Central and Eastern European (CEE) regions within the convergence debate. By analysing the investment decisions of multinational corporations in 49 NUTS-2 regions across 6 European CEE countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria), we show that capital city regions not only receive more greenfield FDI but also attract a larger variety of investments in terms of sectors and functions. Capital cities are more likely to host higher-end sectors and functions, which provides an explanation for the existing regional disparities within CEE countries. These results highlight the importance of functional and sectoral divisions of labour in the view of regional profiling and contribute to the recent EU Cohesion Policy debate.

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“…With the continuous development of economic globalization, countries, regions, and cities are embedded in different levels of organizations and networks. Using social network analysis to study world city networks (WCNs), especially the network community detection for exploring the close communities in WCNs, provides theoretical innovation for regional integration measurements [44][45][46].…”

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“…Especially in city network science that is booming, community detection presents to be an analytical innovation for understanding the clustering of cities [46,60]. Obviously, the concept of network community is highly consistent with regional integration, and that is, both of them emphasize the closeness of connections within the community (region) [44]. Several methods for community detection have been developed, such as minimum-cut, hierarchical clustering, Girvan-Newman algorithm, modularity maximization.…”

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Regional Integration in the Inter-City Technology Transfer System of the Yangtze River Delta, China

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Recently, the Chinese government decided to support the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in a national strategic way. On this background, this paper investigates the regional integration in the technology transfer system of the YRD based on patent transfer from three levels: overall, technology supply chain, and technology sales chain. It also uses the modularity maximization method to detect the community structure of the inter-city patent transfer network in China. The results show that regional integration of the technology transfer system of the YRD at both overall level and technology supply chain level had not been realized up to 2015, but had been achieved at the technical sales chain level. Technology flow in the YRD was increasingly moving across the border, and the intra-region technology transfer network was increasingly unable to meet the needs of technological development of the cities in the YRD. This paper has several limitations concerning the representativeness of patent data, the manifestation of patent data in technological transfer and international comparison.

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World City Network Integration in the Eurasian Realm

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Global Cities, Connectivity, and the Location Choice of MNC Regional Headquarters

Global Cities, Connectivity, and the Location Choice of MNC Regional Headquarters

Functional and Sectoral Division of Labour within Central and Eastern European Countries: Evidence from Greenfield FDI

Regional Integration in the Inter-City Technology Transfer System of the Yangtze River Delta, China

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