In Chapter 6 advanced producer services featured crucially in the exposition of the interlocking network model. Drawing on Sassen’s (1991) identification of this work as integral to global city formation, the office networks of advanced producer service firms were modelled to generate a world...

International business travel has always been an important labour process in the accumulation of capital for the firm. It is surprising, therefore, that relatively little time has been devoted to the study of business travel, both as a facet of contemporary mobility and as an economic practice....

There seems to be a consensus that the production and transfer of knowledge is inextricably linked to different forms of international mobilities. As prime producers and transferors of knowledge, academics are obviously no exception to this rule, while their ‘compulsion' to proximity/mobility...