Mapping the ‘Space of Flows’: The Geography of Global Business Telecommunications and Employment Specialization in the London Mega-City-Region

Abstract

Regional Studies. Telecommunications has radically reshaped the way that firms organize industrial activity. And yet, because much of this technology - and the interactions that it enables - is invisible, the corporate 'space of flows' remains poorly mapped. This article combines detailed employment and telecoms usage data for the South-east of England to build a sector-by-sector profile of globalization at the mega-city-region scale. The intersection of these two datasets allows a new empirical perspective on industrial geography and regional structure to be developed. © 2014 © 2014 Regional Studies Association.