Trajectoires d’intégration des villes françaises dans les réseaux économiques et financiers des firmes transnationales étrangères
(2017) Annales de géographie — Vol. 718, n° 6, p. 754-781 (2017)
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- (en) At an international scale, transnational firms are at the core of major integration inequalities. They conduct their investments first of all from and to the Northern countries. Rarely observed on the urban scale, their investments nevertheless put territories in various positions : some cities are at the top of these networks, some are highly integrated by hosting numerous investments, while others are almost excluded from these networks. Most studies explore conventional data at a macro level. In this paper, territorial inequalities of integration into foreign transnational firms’ networks are observed at a finer scale at a finer scale and in a dynamic perspective in the french system of cities. Metropoles are as expected highly integrated in these networks, but smaller cities are in highly diverse situations : marginality, catch-up, reinforcement and decline of their integration. This has been revealed by studying the breakdown of the transnational firms’ affiliation networks through the building of a database of foreign-controlled establishments in French urban areas and comparing it with a census of new establishments recently opened.
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Finance, O. (2017). Trajectoires d’intégration des villes françaises dans les réseaux économiques et financiers des firmes transnationales étrangères. Annales de géographie, 718(6), 754-781. https://doi.org/10.3917/ag.718.0754 (Original work published 2017)