Jonathan Beaverstock, James Faulconbridge, Sarah Hall

The Globalization of Executive Search

Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the globalization of executive search. After examining the changing geographies of global executive search firms, the book uses the case of executive search to document the institutional work involved in legitimating, globalizing and creating demand for the services of new knowledge intensive professional services.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780415896627
• ISBN-10: 0415896622
• Artikelnr.: 33379448

Autorenporträt

Jonathan V. Beaverstock is Professor of International Management at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. His research investigates the strategy of globalizing professional services firms, talent management and highly-skilled mobilities, and the competitiveness of financial centres. He publishes widely in business/management, economic geography, and migration and urban studies. James R. Faulconbridge is Professor of Transnational at Lancaster University Management School, United Kingdom. His research focuses on knowledge, learning and innovation; globalization and professional services; and, corporate mobility. He has published in leading journals, including: Journal of Economic Geography; Organization Studies, and Work, Employment and Society. Sarah J.E. Hall is Associate Professor and Reader of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her research examines the circuits of knowledge, expertise and elites that shape the contemporary global service economy. Sarah has published widely in economic geography and sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Section I: The Emergence of a New Global Knowledge
Intensive Professional Service 2. The Globalization of Knowledge Intensive
Professional Services 3. Executive Search: Firms, Clients and Candidates 4.
Global Search Firms and Globalization Strategies 5. Location Matters: New
York, London, Paris, Singapore... Section II: The Professions and
Institutional Spaces of Globalization 6. Globalization and a Professional
Institutional Project? 7. Institutional Work and the Legitimization of
Executive Search 8. Making Markets: the Normalizing and Qualifying
Executive Search 9. Executive Search and the BRICS Economies 10.
Conclusions