New insights into the internationalization of producer services: Organizational strategies and spatial economies for global headhunting firms

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 210-234

  Faulconbridge, James R ^a   Hall, Sarah J E ^b   Beaverstock, Jonathan V ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM SIZE; GLOBALIZATION; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39649107321     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3924     Document Type: Article

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