Interlocking Corporate Directorates and the Global City Hierarchy

Kentor, Jeffrey; Sobek, Adam; Timberlake, Michael

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“…URL: http://ibis.geog. ubc.ca/~ewyly/g350/gawc.pdf (accessed 1.06.2020) -«эксклюзивное» -с применением оригинальных приёмов исследования городов, например, с позиций концепции цепочек добавленной стоимости, библиометрического анализа, «центральности в сети»; а также путём исследования расселения членов советов директоров ТНК (Carroll 2007;Derudder, WIltox 2010;Kentor et al 2011;Neal 2011).…”

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«Geopolitical Challenge» to the Global Urban Research Boom

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Section: Mgimo Review Of International Relations • 13(3) • 2020unclassified

«Geopolitical Challenge» to the Global Urban Research Boom

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“…However, while the data based on passenger flows and corporations are widely acknowledged in this literature, there are several other promising approaches as well. For example, Carroll (2007; see also Kentor et al, 2011) estimates cities' relative global prominence on the basis of network analysis of interlocking directorates of top corporations. Others explored cities' relative positions in Internet backbone networks (Malecki, 2011;Tranos, 2011;Tranos et al, 2014;Vinciguerra et al, 2010), while Matthiessen et al (2010) analyzed the changing network of cities identified on the basis of scientific collaborations.…”

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Are world cities also world immigrant cities? An international, cross-city analysis of global centrality and immigration

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Systematic research on world cities neglects immigration, despite its significance to world city formation. In this article, we test a foundational, but untested, premise of world cities research: that global centrality in the world urban system is associated with larger, more diverse immigrant populations. Using an international sample of cities, we conduct multivariate regressions of Benton-Short et al.'s Urban Immigrant Index on the Globalization and World City Network measure of advanced producer service firm centrality and two other measures of global urban centrality, controlling for competing explanations of international migration. Our findings reveal that cities that are more central to the network of advanced producer service firms have larger, more diverse immigrant populations than less-central cities. World cities are thus not only key sites for corporate control of the world economy, but they are also central in international flows of immigrant labor, as Sassen hypothesized nearly 30 years ago.

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“…However, few non-Japanese financial firms use Tokyo as an Asia-Pacific headquarters. Although Japanese financial firms in Tokyo possess global ties, as a group they are relatively isolated from global corporate networks (Kentor et al, 2011). Tokyo has never been a network hub from which Chinese financial firms operated.…”

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The world cities of Hong Kong and Singapore: Network hubs of global finance

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2015

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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The world cities of Hong Kong and Singapore, former creations of British colonialism, gained prominence as global financial centers primarily from decisions of firms headquartered in the core of Europe and North America to base their senior management in Hong Kong for Asia-Pacific and Singapore for Southeast Asia. This study uses qualitative interviews with financiers in both cities to examine how they use their networks to produce financial services from core-contending centers in a regional economy containing mostly corecontending, semiperipheral, and peripheral countries. The results reveal that Hong Kong's and Singapore's financiers and their firms gain competitive advantages in producing financial services from their network exploitation of their access to sophisticated information, knowledge, and expertise about Asia.

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Interlocking Corporate Directorates and the Global City Hierarchy

Abstract: This paper examines the direct and indirect economic linkages of the most prominent cities in

Cited by 12 publications

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«Geopolitical Challenge» to the Global Urban Research Boom

«Geopolitical Challenge» to the Global Urban Research Boom

Are world cities also world immigrant cities? An international, cross-city analysis of global centrality and immigration

The world cities of Hong Kong and Singapore: Network hubs of global finance

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