Globalization of Executive Search

<p>Executive search headhunting is now one of the archetypal new knowledge intensive professional services as well as a labor market intermediary bound up with globalization. In this book the authors examine the key actors in the process of executive search globalization – leading global firms – and offer an interpretation of the forces producing the contemporary organizational strategies of global executive search. <i>The Globalization of Executive Search</i> documents the forms of institutional work that have legitimated the role of executive in elite labor markets and created demand for the services of global firms; this exposes not only the changing geographies of executive search but also how executive search has established itself as a new knowledge intensive professional service. The authors reveal how the globalization of executive search is exemplary of the processes by which a range of new knowledge intensive professional services have come to be globally recognized approaching the heart of contemporary capitalism.</p>