This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Rozenblat, C. Articles by Pumain, D. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

The Location of Multinational Firms in the European Urban System

Equipe P.A.R.I.S., CNRS, France and the University of Montpellier

Denise Pumain

University of Paris I and in the Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris, Cedex 14, France

The progress of political and economic integration among European countries is inducing the progressive emergence of a European urban system. National urban systems are restructuring and adapting themselves to this new international and economic context. The location of the largest multinational firms is taken as revealing a major step in the process of the integration of European cities into supra-national networks. A survey of the location of 3000 establishments belonging to the 300 largest European firms provides interesting results about the factors making European cities attractive for such activities. It may be inferred from these results that they confirm a new trend called `metropolisation', which is reinforcing the top of the national urban hierarchies, as demonstrated in other studies.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				C. Wong Developing Indicators to Inform Local Economic Development in England Urban Stud, September 1, 2002; 39(10): 1833 - 1863. [Abstract] [PDF]

				I. Chorianopoulos Urban Restructuring and Governance: North-South Differences in Europe and the EU URBAN Initiative Urban Stud, April 1, 2002; 39(4): 705 - 726. [Abstract] [PDF]

				P. Cheshire Cities in Competition: Articulating the Gains from Integration Urban Stud, May 1, 1999; 36(5-6): 843 - 864. [PDF]

				A. Malmberg Industrial geography Progress in Human Geography, December 1, 1994; 18(4): 532 - 540. [PDF]