Mapping the ‘space of flows’: the geography of global business telecommunications and employment specialization in the London mega-city-region

Reades, Jonathan and Smith, Duncan (2014) Mapping the ‘space of flows’: the geography of global business telecommunications and employment specialization in the London mega-city-region. Regional Studies, 48 (1). pp. 105-126. ISSN 0034-3404

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Abstract

Reades J. and Smith D. A. Mapping the ‘space of flows’: the geography of global business telecommunications and employment specialization in the London mega-city-region, Regional Studies. Telecommunications has radically reshaped the way that firms organize industrial activity. And yet, because much of this technology – and the interactions that it enables – is invisible, the corporate ‘space of flows’ remains poorly mapped. This article combines detailed employment and telecoms usage data for the South-east of England to build a sector-by-sector profile of globalization at the mega-city-region scale. The intersection of these two datasets allows a new empirical perspective on industrial geography and regional structure to be developed.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cres20
Additional Information:	© 2014 Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Divisions:	LSE Cities
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2014 16:32
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 00:36
Projects:	Complexity-NET/FP6 ERANET
Funders:	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, European Commission
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55812

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