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Peter Taylor's compelling insights challenge us to view cities as part of a global network, divorced from the constraints of national or even regional boundaries.
"World City Network interprets cities as global service centres. With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business se…
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The rise of transnational hybrid authority: a primer; 2. Service offshoring: the new frontier of globalisation; 3. Standards as regulation; 4. Doubling security: prudential standards for insurance regulation; 5. Standards to crea…
"Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for…
"Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for…
Manufacturing versus services: a misplaced debate -- Global production network: India and developing countries -- Financialisation in India: emerging trends in the corporate sector -- Hierarchies of capital and the architecture of value capture -- Informality: regime of accumula…
"The delinking of growth and employment and stagnation in manufacturing together with rising share of services in both output and employment had been a major concern in the context of industrialising India. Policy debates in the past three decades have been confined to binaries …
"The delinking of growth and employment and stagnation in manufacturing together with rising share of services in both output and employment had been a major concern in the context of industrialising India. Policy debates in the past three decades have been confined to binaries …
Service Economies examines how working-class labor occupies a central space in linking the United States and Asia to South Koreaʹs changing global position from a U.S. neocolony to a subempire. Foregrounding gender, sexuality, and race, Jin-kyung Lee reimagines the South Korean …