Theorizing global business spaces

Jones, Anthony

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0467.2009.00315.x

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“…Access to advanced air transportation plays a fundamental role in determining the relative centrality of cities within multiscalar urban systems (Alberts et al, 2009;Guimerà et al, 2005;Mukkala and Tervo, 2013;Witlox and Derudder, 2007). Efficient, cost-effective transportation connections are a prerequisite for companies to employ advanced logistical techniques (Erie, 2004;O'Connor, 2010) and for localities to market themselves as global business hubs (Beaverstock et al, 2009;Jones, 2009;McNeill, 2009). As a result, non-stop flight linkages prominently factor in global city rankings (Foreign Policy, 2010; see Derudder et al, 2009;Keeling, 1995).…”

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Flying high (in the competitive sky): Conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through “aero-regionalism”

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2014

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a b s t r a c tAirports are key catalysts for urban growth and economic development in an era of global urbanization. In addition to their global economic functions, the multiscalar connectivity and localized impacts of air transport infrastructure place them at the heart of city-regional politics and planning. Yet the relations between global air transport, economic development and city-regionalism remain under-theorized. This paper introduces the concept of aero-regionalism to explore the relationality/territoriality dialectic and mechanisms of state territorialization unfurling at the nexus of globalization, air transport, city-regionalism and air transport. I provide a relational geographic comparison of the impact of varying local institutional arrangements and policy frameworks on the political and infrastructural integration of airports in the global city-regions of Chicago and Toronto. The paper analyzes the relative significance of variations in local transportation and planning systems to develop our understanding of the relations between global aviation infrastructures and their surrounding regional spaces, and the connectivity between major global ports and local transportation capillaries in global city-regions. The concept of aero-regionalism advances our understanding of the urban political economy of airports by uncovering how competitive economic globalization, state spatiality and the development of large-scale airport infrastructures are mediated through the symbiotic, if contested, co-production of urban and air space. While divergent governance regimes have shaped the development of urban transportation networks in the two case city-regions, the imperatives of globalization and neoliberalization are pressuring the material, political and discursive regionalization of airport space while privileging the logics of premium networked mobility.

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Flying high (in the competitive sky): Conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through “aero-regionalism”

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“…These may be delivered through training sessions and on-line communications and they may also target a wider market of smaller clients. International competition has also been growing, not only from North America and Europe, but also from firms based in countries such as India, Korea, Malaysia, Russia, China and the Gulf States (Jones, 2008b(Jones, , 2009. This is intensifying the need to recognise the commercial, cultural and political sensibilities of clients in these and other expanding markets.…”

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“…Such portfolios of mobility largely define the changing 'global business space' within which MNEs operate (Taylor and Spicer, 2007;Jones, 2009). There have been numerous studies of the management of individual modes of exchange, including expatriate assignments and business travel, but there is also a growing awareness of the need for their uses to be more closely integrated in serving international markets.…”

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Shifting portfolios of international labour mobility among UK-based business consultancies

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2012

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“…Researchers have tended to focus on particular aspects of international mobility, at best considering bilateral interactions with other forms, for example between business travel and virtual exchange (Faulconbridge et al 2009;Malecki and Moriset 2008). Where greater integration has recently been proposed, this has been in conceptual terms, for example Jones's notions of 'global work' and 'global business space' (Jones 2008(Jones , 2009) rather than the outcome of specific empirical enquiry (for example Taylor and Spicer 2007). Global work crosses scales, simultaneously depending on mobility to sustain localized, face-to-face contacts, and globalscale, virtual exchange (see also Faulconbridge 2008;Glückler 2005;Salt 2010).…”

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Recession and international corporate mobility

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2012

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The international mobility of MNE personnel has been increasing in recent years both through traditional forms of expatriation and short‐term assignments and through business travel. These overall ‘portfolios of mobility’, however, have been complemented by intensified virtual communication and growing localization of recruitment in developing production and market regions. In this article, we report on a return survey of the impacts of the 2008 recession on the mobility portfolios of a sample of UK‐based MNEs and consider how far it has affected established trends. We begin by reviewing evidence from recent large‐scale surveys on corporate staff mobility. We then focus on how the relationship between established business goals and global mobility strategies was rebalanced within individual companies as the recession took hold. Our evidence indicates the widely variable effects of recession, strongly affecting operations in some parts of the world, but making little, if any, change elsewhere. In many cases, corporate restructuring or the increased focus on emerging markets were already reshaping mobility portfolios. Diversification and flexibility have underlain the development of these portfolios over the last decade. The recession has accelerated several processes already under way, including a shift towards alternatives to traditional assignments and the closer incorporation of new and emerging markets into mobility systems. It has also allowed companies to drive through changes that might otherwise have been more contentious, such as reducing the financial incentives for assignment.

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Theorizing global business spaces

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Cited by 23 publications

References 82 publications

Flying high (in the competitive sky): Conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through “aero-regionalism”

Flying high (in the competitive sky): Conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through “aero-regionalism”

Shifting portfolios of international labour mobility among UK-based business consultancies

Recession and international corporate mobility

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