＂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 globalizatio-- leading global firms--and offer an interpretation of the forces producing the contemporary organizational
strategies of global executive search. The Globalization of Executive Search documents the forms of institutional work that havelegitimated 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＂--
