Corporate interlocking at the national and transnational scale has received substantive scholarly attention. Less is known about companies’ ties to the cities and regions in which they have their seats. In this paper, we conduct a long-term analysis of the multilevel ties that companies maintain with the local and the national context they are embedded in. To do so, we adopt a positional approach and identify the directors of the major companies in the three largest Swiss cities (Basel, Geneva, and Zurich) and study company directors’ ties to local and national organizations in seven benchmark years between 1890 and 2020. Our analysis documents the rise and fall of company directors’ ties to national organizations over the course of the 20th century, and it highlights the continued persistence of companies’ ties to the local level and their region until the new millennium, when companies’ ties with national and local organizations vanish, coinciding with the transnationalization of company boards.

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从本地冠军到全球参与者：瑞士企业跨地域联系的长期视角

国内和跨国范围内的企业连锁已受到学术界的实质性关注。人们对公司与其所在城市和地区的联系知之甚少。在本文中，我们对公司与其所处的地方和国家背景保持的多层次联系进行了长期分析。为此，我们采用定位方法并确定了三个主要公司的董事瑞士最大的城市（巴塞尔、日内瓦和苏黎世），研究 1890 年至 2020 年间七个基准年中公司董事与地方和国家组织的关系。我们的分析记录了公司董事与国家组织的关系在整个过程中的兴衰。 20世纪，