Dr. James Faulconbridge

Department of Geography,

Farrer Avenue,

Lancaster University,

Lancaster

LA1 4YQ

Tel: (01524) 510265

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Present Appointment: Lecturer in Human Geography

   

Research Interests

  

My research interests lie broadly within the field of Economic Geography with a particular focus on the geographies of professional service firms. Recent projects have focussed upon:

• The globalization of professional service firms

• Geographies of the ‘knowledge economy’
• Relational and practice-based approaches to economic geography

Through empirical studies of advertising, architectural, executive search, financial and legal professional service firms my work seeks to understand the way knowledge and institutional and ‘cultural’ difference is managed in spatially distributed organizations. Recent studies have been funded by a range of research councils and charities and have resulted in a series of theoretically grounded papers that contribute to ongoing debates about the geographies of knowledge and learning and the interaction between transnational corporations and geographically distinctive national varieties of capitalism. Collaboration with colleagues in the UK, France, the Netherlands, the USA and Australia has informed this research and has led to a number of international workshops and conference sessions.

 

Recent Publications

 

 

Journal Articles

 

Faulconbridge JR (2008) Negotiating cultures of work in transnational law firms. Journal of Economic Geography 8 497-517. Click here for a PDF copy 

 

Faulconbridge JR, Beaverstock JV, Muzio, D, Taylor PJ (in press) Global Law Firms: globalization and organizational spaces of cross-border legal work. Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business. Click here for a PDF copy

 

Faulconbridge JR (2008) Managing the transnational law firm: a relational analysis of professional systems, embedded actors and time-space sensitive governance. Economic Geography 84 (2) 185-210. Click here for a PDF copy
 

Derudder B, Witlox, F, Faulconbridge JR, Beaverstock JV (2008) Introduction to Special Issue: Airline networks and urban systems. Geojournal 71 (1) 1-3. Click here for a PDF copy

 

Derudder B, Witlox, F, Faulconbridge JR, Beaverstock JV (2008) Airline data for global city network research: reviewing and refining existing approaches. Geojournal 71 (1) 5-18. Click here for a PDF copy

  

Faulconbridge JR, Hall SJE and Beaverstock JV (2008) New insights into the internationalization of producer services: Organizational strategies and spatial economies for global headhunting firms' Environment and Planning A 40 (1) 210-234. Click here for a PDF copy

 

Faulconbridge JR, Muzio, D (2008) Organizational professionalism in global law firms. Work, Employment and Society 22 (1) 7-25. Click here for a PDF copy

 

Faulconbridge JR (2007) 'London and New York’s advertising and law clusters and their networks of learning: relational analyses with a politics of scale?'  Urban Studies 44 (9) 1635-1656  Click here for a PDF copy  _{^{(Winner of Donald Robertson Prize Essay Award 2007)}}

 

Faulconbridge JR (2007) ‘Relational networks of knowledge production in global law firms’. Geoforum 38, 925-940 Click here for a PDF copy

 

Faulconbridge JR (2007) ‘Exploring the role of professional associations in collective learning in London and New York’s advertising and law professional service firm clusters’. Environment and Planning A 39, 965-984. Click here for PDF copy

 

Faulconbridge JR, Muzio D (2007) 'Reinserting the professional into the study of global professional service firms: the case of law.  Global Networks 7 (3) 249-270. Click here for a PDF copy

 

Faulconbridge JR, Engelen, EV, Hoyler M and Beaverstock JV (2007) Analysing the Changing Landscape of European Financial Centres: The Role of Financial Products and the Case of Amsterdam.  Growth and Change 38 (2) 279-303. Click here for a PDF copy 

 

Faulconbridge JR (2006) Stretching tacit knowledge beyond a local fix? Global spaces of learning in advertising professional service firms. Journal of Economic Geography 6, 517-540. Click here for PDF copy

 
Faulconbridge JR (2004) London and Frankfurt in Europe's evolving financial centre network. Area 36 (3) 235-244.

 

 

Book Chapters

Beaverstock JV, Hall SJE, Faulconbridge JR (2006) The Internationalization of Europe’s Contemporary Transnational Executive Search Industry. In Harrington JW (Ed) Knowledge-Based Services: Internationalisation and Regional Development, 125-152. Aldershot, Ashgate. ISBN: 0-7546-4897-4

 

Faulconbridge JR, Beaverstock JVB (in press) Geographies of International Business Travel in the Professional Service Economy. In Hislop D (Ed.) Mobile work/Technology. Routledge, London 

 

Faulconbridge JR, Beaverstock JVB (in press) Globalization: interconnected worlds. In Holloway S, Rice S, Valentine G, Clifford N (Eds.) Key concepts in Geography.  

 

 

Commentaries and Reviews

  

Faulconbridge JR (2007) Book review: Dicken P (2007) Global Shift (5^th edition). Journal of Economic Geography 7, 777-779.

 

Faulconbridge JR (2005) Book review: Gertler, M S (2004): Manufacturing Culture. The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice. Oxford UP, Oxford. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography 87(3) 237-239.

 

Moore S, Faulconbridge JR, Blake C, Westhead, D, Slater T, Brown G, Davidson M, Huxley M and Huijubens E (2003) Reflections on current developments in contemporary urban geography. Area 35(2) 217-220.

  

Recent Grants

 

£2,550 British Council-NWO ' Forces of concentration in European financial geographies'. Workshop funding - see http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ias/annualprogramme/regionalism/related_activities.htm

 

£7,290 British Academy ‘Relational spaces of innovation in global architecture firms’. 01/2007-06/2008.

 

£24,500 Sloan Foundation ‘The globalization of the advertising industry: a case study of knowledge workers in worldwide economic restructuring. Co-applicant with Peter Taylor (Loughborough University). 07/2006-06/2008    

 

£44,968 ESRC ’The internationalization of headhunting in Europe’. Co-applicant with Jon Beaverstock and Sarah Hall (Loughborough University). 01/2006 - 06/2007 - see www.geog.lancs.ac.uk/headhunters

 

1,500 Socio-Legal Studies Association ‘Unpacking the organizational space of the UK legal profession’. Co-applicant with Daniel Muzio (Lancaster University Business School). 04/2006 - 03-2007.

 

£1,800 - ‘Managing across professional cultures’. Department of Geography, Lancaster University 07/2005 – 06/2006.

 

ESRC funded place at 2004 Summer Institute in Economic Geography. 07/2004.

 

     
Awards and Commendations

 

Winner of Urban Studies Donald Robertson Prize Essay Award 2007 for paper ‘London and New York’s advertising and law clusters and their networks of learning: relational analyses with a politics of scale?’ 

 

Winner, Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Economic Geography Research Group Best PhD dissertation award 2005.

 

‘Honourable mention’ as ‘best paper by a new researcher in Area 2004’ for journal paper ‘‘London and Frankfurt in Europe's evolving financial centre network’.

 

John Guest Phillips Memorial Travelling Scholarship, Loughborough University. Part-funding for attendance and presentation of a paper at 2005 Association of American Geographers annual conference.

 
      

Professional positions/affiliations

  

Book Review Editor - Economic Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) see http://www.econgeog.org.uk/ 

 
Fellow of the Royal geographical society (with Institute of British Geographers)

Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Affiliate (see http://www.sloan.org/programs/affiliates.shtml)

 
Research Fellow, Globalization and World Cities research centre and network (see www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc)

 
Invited Collaborator, Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe Networks of Excellence project (see http://dime.u-paris10.fr/index.php)

 

Member, Association of American Geographers

 
Member, International Working Group on Financialization (see http://www.iwgf.org/)

 

Member, Law Firm Working Group, Indiana University (see http://firms.law.indiana.edu/about/index.shtml)