Summary information
Study title
Cities and Firms Global Matrix, 2000
Creator
Taylor, P. J., Loughborough University, Department of Geography
Study number / PID
4447 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-4447-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The basic purpose of the research was to describe the world city network through the location policies of global service firms. The office locations (and their importance) were collected for 100 business service firms (18 accountancy, 15 advertising, 23 banking/finance, 16 law, 11 insurance, 17 management consultancy). From the resulting data matrix, various data reduction and connectivity matrices were derived to describe the basic configuration of the world city network.
Main Topics:
The basic matrix consists of 316 cities for which 'service scores' are provided, describing their importance to the servicing activities of 100 service firms. Scores range from 0 (no presence of a firm in a city) to 5 (headquarters of a firm in a city).
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/2000
Country
Multi-nation
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Institutions/organisations
Administrative units (geographical/political)
Cross-national
National
Firms
Universe
Information gathered on global service firms during 2000.
Sampling procedure
Web site scavenger method
Kind of data
Numeric
firms and cities
Data collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Funding information
Grant number
R000223210
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2001
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
- Catalano, G., Walker, D. and Taylor, P. (2002) 'Measurement of the World City Network', Urban Studies, 2367-2376
- Walker, D., Catalano, G. and Taylor, P. (2004) 'Multiple Globalizations:: Regional, Hierarchical and Sector Articulations of Global Business Services through World Cities', The Service Industries Journal, 63-81
- Taylor, P., Walker, D. and Catalano, G. (2002) 'Exploratory analysis of the world city network', Urban Studies, 2377-2394
- Taylor, P. (2001) 'Specification of the world city network', Geographical Analysis, 181-194