The re-organization of big firms’ Headquarters and their related units : Principles, practices and consequences on the spatial evolutions of the Paris Ile-de-France region.

During the last few years, there has been an accelerating trend of big firms to relocate their HQ within the Ile-de-France region. That went alongside with a split-up of functions that previously composed the corporate headquarter (business units’ HQ, corporate human resources or computer departments, and back office function). These functions, which are no longer located in the place called “the HQ”, tend to be regrouped out of the traditional economic core, at its immediate proximity or in more remote locations.
IAURIF in co-operation with the LATTS Laboratory (Technologies, Territories and Societies) have analyzed these trends in a study issued in December 2007.