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To examine the evolving relationship among national size, city scale, economies of scale, and multinational firms across historical eras of globalization.

October 9, 2010Regional StudiesOpen Access

Globalization: Countries, Cities and Multinationals

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PMPhilip McCannUniversity of Manchester ZÁZoltán J. ÁcsEötvös Loránd University

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Historical economic review reveals that global connectivity supersedes city size in developed nations, challenging traditional theories regarding optimal country scale.

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To examine the evolving relationship among national size, city scale, economies of scale, and multinational firms across historical eras of globalization.
Synthesized interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical literature covering the optimal size of nations, historical urbanization, and multinational enterprise behavior.
Analyzed shifting agglomeration mechanisms across pre-twentieth-century, inter-war, and contemporary globalization eras through an economic geography and economic history framework.
Agglomeration dynamics transitioned from a direct relationship between city and empire scale to a complex network driven by multinational enterprises in the modern era.
Global connectivity has replaced raw city size as the primary driver of urban economic performance in industrialized countries, while absolute city size remains dominant in newly industrializing nations.
The traditional hierarchical relationship among countries, cities, and firms has largely inverted, undermining classical institutional economic models that prescribe optimal country size.

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McCann et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ffae357ac91c5d2a2d60f4 https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2010.505915

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Historical economic review reveals that global connectivity supersedes city size in developed nations, challenging traditional theories regarding optimal country scale.

Globalization: Countries, Cities and Multinationals

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Globalization: Countries, Cities and Multinationals

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