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Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market (2012)
Journal Article
Beaverstock, J. V., & Hall, S. (2012). Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 5(2), 271-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rss005

The City of London's competitiveness is founded on its global talent pool and ability to attract and retain workers of all nationalities. Drawing on ONS Long-Term International Migration data and fieldwork-based studies of banking, professional servi... Read More about Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market.

Towards corporate professionalization: The case of project management, management consultancy and executive search (2011)
Journal Article
Muzio, D., Hodgson, D., Faulconbridge, J., Beaverstock, J., & Hall, S. (2011). Towards corporate professionalization: The case of project management, management consultancy and executive search. Current Sociology, 59(4), 443-464. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392111402587

This article explores patterns of professionalization in a number of 'new' knowledge-based occupations: management consultancy, project management and executive headhunters. Against a general assumption in the literature that such occupations are unw... Read More about Towards corporate professionalization: The case of project management, management consultancy and executive search.

The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets (2009)
Journal Article
Faulconbridge, J. R., Beaverstock, J. V., Hall, S., & Hewitson, A. (2009). The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets. Geoforum, 40(5), 800-808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.02.001

Recent years have been characterised by the increasing encroachment into policy and academic debates of discourses describing knowledge and weightless economies and an associated 'war for talent'. In this paper we argue that these current discourses... Read More about The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets.