World cities under conditions of digitization and platform capitalism: Updating the advanced producer services complex

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-05-11 DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104021

David Bassens , Reijer Hendrikse , Karen P.Y. Lai , Michiel van Meeteren

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Abstract

This themed issue showcases contributions that study how processes of digitization and platformization are reshaping the intermediary role and operations of advanced producer services (APS). It places these alterations against the backdrop of earlier rounds of APS ‘shapeshifting’ amid globalization and financialization. This introduction to the themed issue outlines the main dimensions of these shifts affecting APS: geographical changes, sectoral and functional changes, organizational changes, and strategic-institutional changes. Reflecting on the themed issue contributions, we posit that digitization and platformization are rapidly altering APS as organizations, but there is little evidence for a wholesale loss of their intermediary function. In geographical terms, we observe that the platformization of APS is generating networked dependence of world cities on tech centres, further entangling APS intermediation with wider geopolitical concerns about technological sovereignty.

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数字化和平台资本主义条件下的世界城市：更新先进生产者服务综合体

本期主题刊物展示了研究数字化和平台化进程如何重塑先进生产者服务（APS）的中介角色和运作的文章。本期特刊将这些变化置于前几轮先进生产者服务在全球化和金融化过程中 "变形 "的背景之下。本专题导言概述了影响先进生产者服务的这些变化的主要方面：地理变化、部门和功能变化、组织变化以及战略-体制变化。通过对本期主题文章的反思，我们认为数字化和平台化正在迅速改变作为组织的 APS，但几乎没有证据表明其中介功能已经全面丧失。在地理方面，我们注意到，APS 的平台化正在产生世界城市对科技中心的网络化依赖，进一步将 APS 中介与有关技术主权的更广泛地缘政治问题纠缠在一起。

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Geoforum GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

7.30

自引率

5.70%

发文量

201

期刊介绍： Geoforum is an international, inter-disciplinary journal, global in outlook, and integrative in approach. The broad focus of Geoforum is the organisation of economic, political, social and environmental systems through space and over time. Areas of study range from the analysis of the global political economy and environment, through national systems of regulation and governance, to urban and regional development, local economic and urban planning and resources management. The journal also includes a Critical Review section which features critical assessments of research in all the above areas.