An Appraisal of Asia-Pacific Cities as Control and Command Centres Embedded in World City Network
Since the globalization trend is proliferating at a staggering rate, world cities have emerged as the most dominant vanguard incorporated into global economy. Control and command function is one of the robust integral parts of world city formation, which is closely associated with the corporate...
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Engineering, Technology and Applied Science Research (ETASR)
2017
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/38283/1/An_Appraisal_of_Asia-Pacific_Cities_as_Control.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/38283/ http://etasr.com/index.php/ETASR/article/view/1139 |
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| Summary: | Since the globalization trend is proliferating at a
staggering rate, world cities have emerged as the most dominant
vanguard incorporated into global economy. Control and
command function is one of the robust integral parts of world
city formation, which is closely associated with the corporate
headquarter status of some dominant multinational companies.
Previous research works on this topic tend to concentrate on the
Western Europe and North American arenas neglecting the Asia-
Pacific region. Hence, the objective of this paper is to explore
control and command functions of Asia-Pacific cities with
reference to headquarters’ locations of multinational companies.
The methodology will utilize the Forbes global 2000 dataset from
the seminal study of GaWC research group, and apply the
control and command center model and the interlocking city
network model to discover the control and command index, as
well as network connectivity of Asia-Pacific cities. Based upon the
empirical study of this research, we could identify the
hierarchical structure and spatial structure of Asia-Pacific world
cities to emerge as some control and command centers embedded
in world city network. |
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