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The Metropolitan Corporate Centre: Reinvention of the Medieval City-State

In: Environment, Ethics and the Corporation

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  • Grant Ledgerwood
  • Arlene Idol Broadhurst

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Too often the future of organisations is explored as if they exist in a ‘non-place urban realm’, in the urban philosopher Mel Webber’s famous phrase of the 1960s. In the technical jargon, economies and companies have become increasingly de-spatialised. They tend to live in information networks and undifferentiated airport cities spanning the globe. No matter what the country of origin, specific global icons permeate multinational companies - glass air-conditioned buildings, business suits, sleek cars, massive hotels, and corporate jets.

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  • Grant Ledgerwood & Arlene Idol Broadhurst, 2000. "The Metropolitan Corporate Centre: Reinvention of the Medieval City-State," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Environment, Ethics and the Corporation, chapter 6, pages 111-141, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-98163-4_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333981634_7
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