Cities and Firms Global Matrix, 2000

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.

本研究的核心目标为依托全球服务企业的区位布局策略，刻画全球城市网络的结构特征。研究收集了100家商业服务企业的办公选址信息及其重要性权重，其中涵盖18家会计服务机构、15家广告公司、23家银行/金融机构、16家律师事务所、11家保险公司及17家管理咨询公司。基于生成的原始数据矩阵，本研究衍生出多组数据降维矩阵与连通性矩阵，用以描述全球城市网络的基本架构。