Print Email Facebook Twitter Corporation-led urban development Title Corporation-led urban development Author Potters, B. Heurkens, E.W.T.M. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Management in the Built Environment Date 2015-12-31 Abstract Since a couple of years a remarkable phenomenon is witnessed in the field of urban development which entails that large multinationals corporations, such as IKEA and Siemens, start to engage in urban development projects. As their motivation to do so is unclear, it is difficult to estimate whether this phenomenon offers opportunities or threats for urban development practice. This paper provides insights in multinationals’ motives for engaging in urban development and their relationship with corporate strategies. Two different types of multinationals engaging in urban development seem to arise, characterised as ‘Developing Multinationals’ and ‘Technological Partners’. Their diverging motives learn us that multinationals are inherently different and that such corporations cannot simply be stigmatized as profit-maximizing, space-controlling companies threatening public interests in our cities. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4202a258-d49b-4429-ac34-924644f54426 ISSN 1386-3207 Source Boss Magazine, (53) 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2015 The Authors Files PDF 325597.pdf 1.51 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4202a258-d49b-4429-ac34-924644f54426/datastream/OBJ/view