Mapping the 'Space of Flows': The Geography of Global Business Telecommunications and Employment Specialization in the London Mega-City-Region

Jonathan Reades and Duncan A. Smith

Regional Studies, 2014, vol. 48, issue 1, 105-126

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.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2013.856515

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