All Outputs (7)

Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market (2012)
Journal Article

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.

Servicing the super-rich: new financial elites and the rise of the private wealth management retail ecology (2011)
Journal Article

The ways in which individuals' everyday lives have become increasingly tied into the international financial system has become a widely studied dimension of research on financialization. However, the ways in which financial elites consume financial s... Read More about Servicing the super-rich: new financial elites and the rise of the private wealth management retail ecology.

Towards corporate professionalization: The case of project management, management consultancy and executive search (2011)
Journal Article

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.

Exploring cultural economies of internationalization: the role of 'iconic individuals' and 'brand leaders' in the globalization of headhunting (2009)
Journal Article

Understanding the internationalization of professional services like advertising, architecture, accounting, consulting and legal services continues to attract considerable attention in academic and policy circles. Research in geography and management... Read More about Exploring cultural economies of internationalization: the role of 'iconic individuals' and 'brand leaders' in the globalization of headhunting.

The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets (2009)
Journal Article

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.

New insights into the internationalization of producer services: Organizational strategies and spatial economies for global headhunting firms (2008)
Journal Article

This paper uses the exemplar of global headhunting firms to provide new insights into the intricacies of internationalization and related 'spatial economies' of producer services in the world economy. In particular, we unpack the complex relationship... Read More about New insights into the internationalization of producer services: Organizational strategies and spatial economies for global headhunting firms.

How to cope with mobility expectations in academia: individual travel strategies of tenured academics at Ghent University, Flanders
Journal Article

The production and exchange of knowledge are inextricably linked to different compulsions to corporeal proximity and therefore travel. As primary producers and transferors of knowledge, academics are no exception to this rule, and their compulsions s... Read More about How to cope with mobility expectations in academia: individual travel strategies of tenured academics at Ghent University, Flanders.