| Titre | The organization of multinational firms in the European urban system | |
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| Auteur | Céline Rozenblat | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 17, juillet-septembre 1994 | |
| Page | 5-17 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The multinational firms are representative of the internationalization mouvement which is reorganizing the European territory. By locating subsidiary branches abroad, they create links between cities. They reveal then integration of the cities into a European urban system. The simplest approach consists in counting the number of foreign subsidiaries located in each city, which reveals their integration into the European system of multinational firms. The number of subsidiaries controlled by each city is an indicator of their dominating or subordinated position in the European urban system. A second approach, by the construction of a direct foreign subsidiaries exchange network between all cities, reveals which cities are in central position within the system. A third approach considers the indirect links of the internationalization of firms, and especially the intermediate cities which receive subsidiaries which themselves control sub-subsidiaries. This make appear three kinds of intermediate cities: the importing, the exporting, and importing-exporting. This study is based on a survey which was carried out in 1990 on a sample of about one hundred firms among the three hundred biggest firms in Europe (by their turn over in 1988). Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/flux_1154-2721_1994_num_10_17_991 |
