Gateway Cities’ in Economic Globalisation

How Banks Are Using Brazilian Cities

Bibliographic Data

ID10834232
AuthorsEliana C Rossi (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author), Paul J Taylor (0000-0003-4346-6364, Loughborough University, corresponding author), Peter J Taylor (0000-0002-9242-8658)
Year2006
Volume97
Issue5
Pages515-534
Publication date2006-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-747X • E-ISSN: 1467-9663
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9663.2006.00361.x
OpenAlexW2068128732
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited25

The purpose of this study is to explore the concept of gateway cities as it applies under conditions of contemporary economic globalisation. A case study of Brazilian cities within domestic and global banking circles is used to show that city gateway functions in Brazil are more complex than is generally supposed. Principle components analysis of banking activity across both leading Brazilian cities and world cities generates six ‘common’ banking location strategies comprising separate subnets of cities: there are three largely regional strategies, two transnational strategies, and one national strategy. Although Sao Paulo is confirmed as the dominant gateway city in Brazil, the city subsets show a range of uses of cities by banks in Brazil including a Curitiba subnet emerging as an incipient strategy that actually bypasses Sao Paulo. The general finding is that under conditions of contemporary globalisation concentration and dispersion processes in Brazil are operating simultaneously

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