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Global Business Services in Moscow: Patterns of Involvement

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  • Olga Gritsai

    (Amsterdam Study Centre for the Metropolitan Environment, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, wusten-gritsai@planet.nl, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences)

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The article is focused on the activity of the global business services companies in Moscow and the patterns of their embeddedness in the local economy. The research findings indicate: the growing role of Moscow as a focus of global corporate networks and strong links between foreign and national capital; three basic strategies of involvement in the Russian economy, specific for certain sectors of business services; a much stronger gateway function of Moscow for professional services than for the financial sector; the continuing central role of Russia at the national scale and partly at the supranational scale (within the post-Soviet space), where it is challenged by some national capitals and the complete loss of central position within eastern Europe.

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  • Olga Gritsai, 2004. "Global Business Services in Moscow: Patterns of Involvement," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 41(10), pages 2001-2024, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:41:y:2004:i:10:p:2001-2024
    DOI: 10.1080/0042098042000256350
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