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All of this information allows us to generate some hypotheses on territorial
development and to sketch the basis of a typology of the development of territories
by the corporate networks. Although this information is incomplete, the typology
based on the affiliated networks is able to include the financial links that bind
subsidiaries to each other. We know that there are numerous other forms of exchange
between subsidiaries (intra-firm business, information, decision-making power, etc.)
as developed with the methodology of the global value chain ( Gereffi , 2001 ). All
these approaches must be developed on the local scale in order to understand the
ways in which these local area networks influence a city at the global level. These
analyses must also be conducted with territorial data.
The methodological approach of using networks of individual firms enabled
us to cover two different geographical levels of cities, intra-urban and inter-
urban scales. The complementarity of the processes occurring at and between
these two levels has been analyzed, even if the explanatory processes are not yet
demonstrated. Determining those explanatory processes is now a challenge opened
by this analytical study.
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