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

ISBN-13: 9780415896627 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 250 str.

Jonathan V. Beaverstock; James Faulconbridge; Sarah Hall

Opis

This volume examines the key factors in the process of executive search globalisation - leading global firms, the impacts of globalisation on incumbent hotspots for search and selection, mature markets such as Europe and North America, and the emerging markets of India, China and eastern Europe.

Spis treści

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