Globalization of Executive Search - Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World

List of contents

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Beaverstock, Jonathan (University of Nottingham Beaverstock, Beaverstock Jonathan, James Faulconbridge, Faulconbridge James, Sarah Hall, Hall Sarah
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2014
• EAN: 9780415896627
• ISBN: 978-0-415-89662-7
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Skills, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / Job Hunting, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / Resumes, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Outsourcing, Labour / income economics, International business, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel and human resources management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment