TY - JOUR
AU - WELLS, H.
AB -  In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the notion of globalization. We can define globalization as the growing integration of the world into an interconnected global economy, global financial system, global political system and global culture (Dieleman and Hamnett, 1994). The emergence of the global economy has been a major focus of attention in the urban and regional literature with particular emphasis on the internationalization of manufacturing activities by transnational corporations (TNCs) (Carnoy et al., 1993; Cohen, 1981; Dicken, 1992), time-space compression and flexible accumulation (Harvey, 1989), the growth of producer services (Daniels, 1991; 1993; Meyer, 1991; Sassen, 1991; 1994), the rise of global telecommunications (Langdale, 1989; Moss, 1987; Warf, 1995) and the global financial system (Budd and Whimster, 1992; Martin, 1994; O’Brien, 1992). Thrift (1994a), for example, identifies five processes of economic globalization: (1) the globalization of finance and power of finance over production; (2) the globalization of production and the continuing rise of global oligopolies; (3) the globalization of knowledge and the growth in the importance of knowledge structures and expert systems; (4) the growth of a transnational business class; ( 5 ) the rise of transnational economic diplomacy and the globalization 
TI - The Dirty Little Secret of World Cities Research: Data Problems in Comparative Analysis
JF - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2427.1996.tb00343.x
DA - 1996-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-dirty-little-secret-of-world-cities-research-data-problems-in-w0Htg08lhM
SP - 697
VL - 20
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -