La localisation du commandement de l’économie dominante

The paper examines the location of the headquarters of the World Top 500 and Top 2000 industrial corporations in 1978, 2000 and 2014. The first sub-period is characterised by the tertiarisation of the dominant economy and the weakening of the USA to the benefit of Japan, with a consolidation of the...

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Main Author: Christian Vandermotten
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Language:English
Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2017-02-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/18654
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description The paper examines the location of the headquarters of the World Top 500 and Top 2000 industrial corporations in 1978, 2000 and 2014. The first sub-period is characterised by the tertiarisation of the dominant economy and the weakening of the USA to the benefit of Japan, with a consolidation of the position of Europe. The second sub-period is more stable from a sectorial point of view, but characterised by the strong growth of China, coupled with the further weakening of the USA and now of Japan too. If some reorganisations of the metropolitan patterns can be observed in some countries, like the weakening of the Megalopolis in the USA, globally the economic decisional power remains very concentrated in a lot of metropolitan regions: nearly 2/3 in only 30 metropolitan areas.
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globalization
global cities
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title La localisation du commandement de l’économie dominante
title_full La localisation du commandement de l’économie dominante
title_fullStr La localisation du commandement de l’économie dominante
title_full_unstemmed La localisation du commandement de l’économie dominante
title_short La localisation du commandement de l’économie dominante
title_sort la localisation du commandement de l economie dominante
topic globalization
global cities
headquarters
transnational corporations
url https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/18654
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