Divergence of the world city system from national economies |
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Authors: | Benjamin Leffel Helge Marahrens Arthur S Alderson |
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Institution: | 1. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;2. Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana |
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Abstract: | This study shows that the position of cities in the world economy has diverged from national economies. Using data from 2016, we evaluate a network of 12,802 cities formed by the location decisions of 24,355 firms in terms of their point centrality, and show that the inter-city and inter-national systems have measurably decoupled, disrupting the previously-observed pattern in which the most powerful cities in the world city system were located in core countries, "mid-level" cities were in the semi-periphery,and the least powerful cities were in peripheral countries. Our findings support predictions that globalizing cities would diverge from national economies and that globalization would generate a new global geography that transects long-standing cleavages in the world system. |
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Keywords: | globalization multinational corporations network analysis transnational urbanism world city networks world/global cities |
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