The Urban System And Networks Of Corporate Control, Vol. 11 Book

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
I	Introduction	1
	The Urban System	2
	Research on Metropolitan Dominance	3
	The Internal Division of Labor and the Hinterland	6
	The External Division of Labor and the Hinterland	7
	The Internal Division of Labor and Urban System Position	10
	System Position and the External Division of Labor	13
	Improving the Ecological Approach to Metropolitan Dominance	16
II	The System of Intraorganizational Dominance Relations	23
	Corporate Actors in the Ecological Field	23
	Firms and Their Environments	27
	Power, Influence, and Dominance in the Intraorganizational Realm	34
	The Firm and Organizational Power	41
	Organizational Dominance in the Ecological Field	43
	A Synthetic Approach to Organizational Dominance	45
	Change in the Urban System	53
	Change in Ecological and Organizational Determinants of System Position	55
III	Network Data and Network Structure	57
	Assessing Network Structure	59
	Summary Measures of Network Structure	68
	Ecological and Organizational Characteristics of Places	71
IV	The Structure of the Network of Intercity Relations	73
	Hierarchy in the System of Cities	73
	Hierarchy and Region	78
	Hierarchy and Integration	84
	Summary: The Urban System as Hierarchy	86
V	Ecological and Organizational Components of Network Structure	93
	Ecological Dimensions of Network Prominence	93
	Summary: Ecological Antecedents of Network Prominence	106
	Organizational Components of Network Prominence	110
	Summary: Organizational and Ecological Perspectives of Dominance	114
VI	Change in the Network of Influence Relations	117
	The Urban Hierarchy in 1950	118
	Regional Influences and the Urban Hierarchy in 1950	123
	Hierarchy and Integration in the Urban System--1950	125
	Change in the Urban Hierarchy: 1950-1980	127
	Change in the Ecology of Urban Network Influence	133
VII	Network Characteristics and the Future of Urban Systems Research	141
	Characteristics of the System	141
	Ecological and Organizational Effects on the System	144
	Ecological and Organizational Effects	147
	The Network of World Cities	148
	Evolution of the Organizational Approach	152
	References	155
	Appendix A	161
	Appendix B	169
	Author Index	177
	Subject Index	181