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The Location of Multinational Firms in the European Urban System

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  • Celine Rozenblat

    (Equipe P.A.R.I.S., CNRS, France and the University of Montpellier)

  • Denise Pumain

    (University of Paris I and in the Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris, Cedex 14, France)

Abstract

The progress of political and economic integration among European countries is inducing the progressive emergence of a European urban system. National urban systems are restructuring and adapting themselves to this new international and economic context. The location of the largest multinational firms is taken as revealing a major step in the process of the integration of European cities into supra-national networks. A survey of the location of 3000 establishments belonging to the 300 largest European firms provides interesting results about the factors making European cities attractive for such activities. It may be inferred from these results that they confirm a new trend called `metropolisation', which is reinforcing the top of the national urban hierarchies, as demonstrated in other studies.

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  • Celine Rozenblat & Denise Pumain, 1993. "The Location of Multinational Firms in the European Urban System," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 30(10), pages 1691-1709, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:30:y:1993:i:10:p:1691-1709
    DOI: 10.1080/00420989320081671
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    1. Grosskurth, Philipp, 2019. "MNE and where to find them: An intertemporal perspective on the global ownership network," Ruhr Economic Papers 825, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
    2. Arthur S. Alderson & Jason Beckfield, 2011. "Corporate Networks of World Cities," Chapters, in: Ben Derudder & Michael Hoyler & Peter J. Taylor & Frank Witlox (ed.), International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities, chapter 12, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Céline Rozenblat, 2010. "Opening the Black Box of Agglomeration Economies for Measuring Cities’ Competitiveness through International Firm Networks," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 47(13), pages 2841-2865, November.
    4. Peter Scott, 1998. "The Location of Early Overseas Multinationals in Britain, 1900-1939: Patterns and Determinants," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(6), pages 489-501, August.
    5. Petrakos, George & Economou, Dimitri, 2002. "The spatial aspects of development in south-eastern Europe," ERSA conference papers ersa02p139, European Regional Science Association.

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