All Outputs (6)
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.
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.