Global spaces of knowledge in advertising and law professional service firms

James Faulconbridge

Department of Geography

• Introduction: Research interests and the role of mobility

• Knowledge and mobility in global professional service firms

• Future research

Introduction: Research interests and the role of mobility

Source: Globalization and world cities study group (www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc)

• The mobility of professionals

• The mobility of knowledge

• The mediums of mobility

                                                                                    

                            

‘Global professional service firms’

Knowledge and mobility in global professional service firms

• ‘Mobile’ processes of knowledge production

Source: Shearman Sterling

• ‘Relational social spaces’ and globally mobile professionals

Strong  Moderate  Weak Connectivity through global professional networks

To Hong Kong and Japan

Future research

• Mobile geographies of innovation

• Mobile models of corporate governance