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

Storme, T.; Beaverstock, J.V.; Derudder, B.; Faulconbridge, James R.; Witlox, F.

doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2013.05.004

All Outputs (6)

Overseeing the fortunes of the global super-rich: The nature of private wealth management in london's financial district (2013)
Book Chapter
Beaverstock, J. V., Hall, S. J., & Wainwright, T. (2013). Overseeing the fortunes of the global super-rich: The nature of private wealth management in london's financial district. In I. Hay (Ed.), Geographies of the Super-Rich (43-60). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857935694.00010

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.

Servicing the super-rich: new financial elites and the rise of the private wealth management retail ecology (2011)
Journal Article
Beaverstock, J. V., Hall, S., & Wainwright, T. (2011). Servicing the super-rich: new financial elites and the rise of the private wealth management retail ecology. Regional Studies, 47(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2011.587795

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
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.

How to cope with mobility expectations in academia: individual travel strategies of tenured academics at Ghent University, Flanders
Journal Article
Storme, T., Beaverstock, J., Derudder, B., Faulconbridge, J. R., & Witlox, F. How to cope with mobility expectations in academia: individual travel strategies of tenured academics at Ghent University, Flanders. Research in Transportation Business and Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2013.05.004

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.