From local champions to global players

A long-term perspective on Swiss companies' connections across territorial scales

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4875597
AutoresMichael Andrea Strebel (0000-0002-8983-8867, Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland, autor de correspondencia), A Mach (0000-0002-2957-8186, Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland)
Año2023
Volumen23
Número4
Páginas832-848
Fecha de publicación2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12415
OpenAlexW4310150100
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas31

Corporate interlocking at the national and transnational scale has received substantive scholarly attention. Less is known about companies' ties to the cities and regions in which they have their seats. In this paper, we conduct a long-term analysis of the multilevel ties that companies maintain with the local and the national context they are embedded in. To do so, we adopt a positional approach and identify the directors of the major companies in the three largest Swiss cities (Basel, Geneva, and Zurich) and study company directors' ties to local and national organizations in seven benchmark years between 1890 and 2020. Our analysis documents the rise and fall of company directors' ties to national organizations over the course of the 20th century, and it highlights the continued persistence of companies' ties to the local level and their region until the new millennium, when companies' ties with national and local organizations vanish, coinciding with the transnationalization of company boards

Business · Economic geography · Geography · Computer Science · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies