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

Jonathan Reades and Duncan Smith

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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.

Keywords: globalization telecommunications; firm location; land use patterns; distribution of economic activity; England (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 N0 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-01-24
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Published in Regional Studies, 24, January, 2014, 48(1), pp. 105-126. ISSN: 0034-3404

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