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Jonathan V. Beaverstock

Jonathan V. Beaverstock

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
12163
World Ranking
3539
National Ranking
600

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Jonathan V. Beaverstock is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research interests span across various areas within social sciences, economics, econometrics, and finance. The core fields of study include Sociology and Political Science, Finance, Urban Studies, Economics and Econometrics, as well as Language and Linguistics.

The main topics of their work cover several interconnected themes such as Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism; Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy; Global Urban Networks and Dynamics; Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis; Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics; Language, Discourse, and Communication Strategies; and Management and Organizational Studies.

Their recent publications reflect these research interests. They include:

  • How financial products organize spatial networks: Analyzing collateralized debt obligations and collateralized loan obligations as "networked products", 2021, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • Covid-19 and Global Networks: Reframing our understanding of globalization and transnationalism, 2022, Global Networks

Other coauthored papers relevant to their field include studies on qualitative research and international business, with the following examples appearing in leading journals:

  • Using guanxi to conduct elite interviews in China, 2021, Qualitative Research
  • Triple-loop springboarding and simulacrum enterprises: Financialization and new forms of emerging economy educational international businesses, 2025, International Business Review

Jonathan V. Beaverstock frequently collaborates with several scholars including Adam Leaver, Daniel Tischer, Hongqin Li, William S. Harvey, and Robin Cohen. Their work has appeared in notable publication venues such as Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, Qualitative Research, Global Networks, and International Business Review.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. This fellowship highlights their academic standing within the social sciences community.

Best Publications

  • A roster of world cities

    Jonathan V Beaverstock;RG Smith;PJ Taylor

  • World‐City Network: A New Metageography?

    Jonathan V. Beaverstock;Richard G. Smith;Peter J. Taylor

  • Transnational elites in global cities: British expatriates in Singapore's financial district

    Jonathan V Beaverstock

  • Transnational elites in the city: British highly-skilled inter-company transferees in New York City's financial district

    Jonathan V. Beaverstock

  • Globalization and world cities: some measurement methodologies

    Jonathan V Beaverstock;RG Smith;PJ Taylor;Drf Walker

  • 'Managing across borders': knowledge management and expatriation in professional service legal firms

    Jonathan V. Beaverstock

  • Towards corporate professionalization: The case of project management, management consultancy and executive search

    Daniel Muzio;Damian Hodgson;James Faulconbridge;Jonathan V Beaverstock

  • Fashioning the city: Cultures of consumption in contemporary urban spaces

    Louise Crewe;Jonathan Beaverstock

  • Getting away with it? Exposing the geographies of the super-rich

    Jonathan V Beaverstock;Philip Hubbard;John Rennie Short

  • Lending Jobs to Global Cities: Skilled International Labour Migration, Investment Banking and the City of London:

    Jonathan V. Beaverstock;Joanne Smith

  • Negotiating globalization, transnational corporations and global city financial centres in transient migration studies

    Jonathan V Beaverstock;James T Boardwell

  • Re-thinking skilled international labour migration: world cities and banking organisations.

    Jonathan V Beaverstock

  • International Encyclopedia of Geography

    Jonathan V Beaverstock;Sarah Hall;James Faulconbridge

  • Corporate Ecologies of Business Travel in Professional Service Firms Working Towards a Research Agenda

    James R. Faulconbridge;Jonathan V. Beaverstock;Ben Derudder;Frank Witlox

  • Attending to the world: Competition, cooperation and connectivity in the world city network

    Jonathan V Beaverstock;Marcus A Doel;Philip Hubbard;Peter Taylor

  • The long arm of the law: London's law firms in a globalising world economy

    Jonathan V Beaverstock;PJ Taylor;RG Smith

  • The Role of Location in Knowledge Creation and Diffusion: Evidence of Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in the City of London Financial Services Agglomeration

    Gary A S Cook;Naresh R Pandit;Jonathan V Beaverstock;Peter J Taylor

  • Firms and their global service networks

    Jonathan Beaverstock;Peter Taylor;Richard Smith

  • The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets

    James R. Faulconbridge;Jonathan V. Beaverstock;Sarah Hall;Andrew Hewitson

  • Splintering urbanism: Networked infrastructures, technological mobilities and the urban condition

    Jonathan V Beaverstock

  • Money and the space economy

    Jonathan V Beaverstock

  • Towards Corporate Professionalization: The Case of Project Management, Management Consultancy and Executive Search

    James Faulconbridge;Daniel Muzio;Damian Hodgson;Jonathan V. Beaverstock

  • Global city-regions. Trends, theory, policy

    Jonathan V Beaverstock

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University
Ben Derudder
Ben Derudder KU Leuven
Frank Witlox
Frank Witlox Ghent University
Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol
John Rennie Short
John Rennie Short University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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