World Cities and Global Firms
Peter J. Taylor and David R.F. Walker
These data consist of the distribution of offices for 46 ‘global’ advanced producer service firms over 55 world cities. Global firms are defined by having offices in at least 15 different cities. World cities are from the GaWC inventory of world cities (see GaWC Research Bulletin 6). Service values for a firm in a city are given as 3, 2, 1 or 0 as defined in GaWC Dataset 4.
These data are an experimental set of data derived from GaWC Dataset 4 (43 of the firms qualify as global) but with three additional law firms added which do not have London offices. For publications that make use of these data, see World cities: a first multivariate analysis of their service complexes (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 13) and GaWC Research Bulletin 17.
| Description | Files |
|---|---|
| World cities – office distribution of global service firms: This is a 55 x 46 data matrix whose cells record office geographies of 46 global service firms across 55 world cities. | XLS CSV |
| Key: Advanced producer service firms (sector, code and firm) |
References
Taylor, P.J. (2001) Urban hinterworlds: geographies of corporate service provision under conditions of contemporary globalisation, Geography, 86 (1), 51-60.
Taylor, P.J. and Walker, D.R.F. (2001) World cities: a first multivariate analysis of their service complexes, Urban Studies, 38 (1), 23-47.
Taylor, P.J., Walker, D.R.F. and Beaverstock, J.V. (2002) Firms and their global service networks, in Sassen, S. (ed.) Global Networks, Linked Cities, London: Routledge, 93-115.
As per our data protocol, the following acknowledgement should accompany any public use of the data:
Acknowledgement: The data were created by Peter J. Taylor and David R.F. Walker as part of their project ‘World City Network: Data Matrix Construction and Analysis’ and are based on primary data collected by Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith and Peter J. Taylor (ESRC project ‘The Geographical Scope of London as a World City’ (R000222050)). They constitute Dataset 6 of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network (https://gawc.lboro.ac.uk/) publication of inter-city data.