Truly global corporations? Theorizing 'organizational globalization' in advanced business-services
批判现有关于跨国公司是否成为全球企业的争论，提出转向“企业全球性”概念，基于投资银行和管理咨询两个行业的研究，发展一种关系性、非尺度的理论框架。
Recent debates concerning transnational firms (TNCs) have been preoccupied with the question of whether, and to what extent, the world's largest companies are becoming ‘global corporations’. This paper argues that this debate is epistemologically misguided and that the theoretical framework in use is unable to adequately capture the complex nature of connectivity and spatiality developing in and between firms. It argues that instead of a continued and increasingly fruitless debate around the nature of the relationship between firms and territorial spaces, empirical and theoretical enquiry needs to shift to issues of ‘corporate globality’. The paper thus develops an alternative relational and nonscalar theoretical approach as it presents research into nature of corporate globalization within firms in two advanced business service sectors: investment banking and management consultancy. It uses this research as a basis to make arguments concerning how the role of large firms in the wider tendencies of economic globalization might be better theorized.