主管单位:中国科学技术协会
主办单位:中国地理学会
承办单位:华东师范大学

世界地理研究 ›› 2019, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (2): 149-159.

• 文化与社会 • 上一篇    下一篇

中资律师事务所全球扩展及其网络空间结构演变

邹小华1,薛德升2,李玮2   

  1. 1. 广州市社会科学院 广州城市战略研究院
    2. 中山大学 地理科学与规划学院
  • 收稿日期:2017-11-14 修回日期:2018-01-19 出版日期:2019-04-15 发布日期:2019-05-14
  • 通讯作者: 薛德升
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金国际(地区)合作与交流项目;中山大学高校基本科研业务费专项资金项目

The Global Expansion of Chinese Law Firms and Changing Spatial Structure of Their Global Networks

    

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  • Received:2017-11-14 Revised:2018-01-19 Online:2019-04-15 Published:2019-05-14
  • Supported by:
    Projects of International Cooperation and Exchanges of the National Natural Science Foundation of China;The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

摘要: 运用链锁网络模型,分析了1993-2015年间中资律师事务所全球布局的时空演化特征,及其全球网络的空间结构演变特征。研究发现:①中资律师事务所在西欧、北美和亚太三大区域重点布局的基础上,全球空间覆盖范围迅速扩展,全球布局同时考虑全球金融型中心城市和政治型中心城市等多种类型区位;②中资律师事务所的全球网络,在国内的北京、上海、广州、深圳和海外的香港、纽约、伦敦、迪拜等核心城市构成的骨干网络的基础上不断扩展,其网络的全球化程度也不断增强;③中资律师事务所的全球扩展对北美、西欧、非洲、中东以及东欧等区域城市的全球网络联系影响较大,对空间临近的亚太地区影响相对较小,这也与以往研究结论存在一定的差异。

 

关键词: 中资企业, 全球化, 律师事务所, 空间布局, 世界城市网络

Abstract: The global operation of advanced producer services is crucial to the globalization of national and world economy. This important role makes the spatial distribution of advanced producer service firms an important proxy for the research of the world city network. Current research of this kind mainly focuses on the global spatial patterns of Anglo-American leading producer service firms, especially financial firms, and their contribution to the formation of the world city network. The effects of the rising and globalizing producer service sectors in emerging economies like China are generally undervalued. Based on the changing global distribution of Chinese law firms, and adopts the method of interlocking network analysis, this paper inquires the evolution of the spatial pattern of the global expansion of Chinese law firms and the structure of the their global network. It is revealed that: 1) Chinese law firms expand fast worldwide in recent five years. During their early global expansion, Chinese law firms exclusively chose the three main regions of West Europe, North America, and Pacific Asia. With these three regions as main base, they then expand to broader regions around the world. Chinese law firms not only choose financial centers, but also global political centers in their global location choice. 2) The world city network interconnected by Chinese law firms developed on the basis of bone-network consisted by key city nodes both in China and abroad. With the spatial expansion of the network, the globalization level of the city network also increases greatly. 3) The global expansion of Chinese law firms have shed great effect on the global connection of cities in North America, West Europe, Africa, Middle East, and East Europe, while the pacific Asia, which is spatially close to China is relatively with lower global connection. This is unique for some certain comparing with existing research.

Key words: Chinese firms, globalization, law firms, spatial distribution, world city network

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