'Managing across borders': knowledge management and expatriation in professional service legal firms

By Jonathan V. Beaverstock. 2004

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Subfields: Law, Political Science and International Relations

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Cultural-economy and cities (2007, background): “…networks, particular business and labour market skills and attitudes, educational, cultural and leisure facilities, meeting places for the hypermobile, and access to various institutions of influence such as the media and legal or political bodies (Castells, 1991; Sassen, 2001; Beaverstock, 2004).”
Integrating Finance into Global Production Networks (2014, background): “nature of financial activities is intermediated and facilitated by ABS such as accountancy, law and business consultancy (BRYSON, 2000; JONES, 2003; BEAVERSTOCK, 2004, 2007). As demonstrated by Wójcik (2013b), these sectors hold considerable power in mobilizing the geographies of financial”
Global cluster networks—foreign direct investment flows from Canada to China (2014, background): “knowledge can be transferred back and forth, for instance, through assignments and reassignments of expatriate managers across different contexts (Beaverstock, 2004; Riusala and Suutari, 2004; Hocking et al., 2007).”
More than 'managing across borders? The complex role of face-to-face interaction in globalizing law firms (2007, background): “A particular focus of research has been the ongoing globalization of the legal services sector in terms of the firm-level transnationalization , transnational working practices and knowledge management (Empson 2002; Beaverstock 2004; Falconbridge 2006).”
World cities under conditions of financialized globalization (2015, background): “The existing literature on APS firms under globalization discusses how a variety of sociospatial practices, which crucially depend on face-to-face contact and tacit knowledge transfer, are deployed to manage knowledge across borders (e.g. Beaverstock, 2004; Morgan, 2001; Morgan and Quack, 2006).”
The interaction of expatriate pay differential and expatriate inputs on host country nationals' pay unfairness (2009, background): “similarly qualified local employees (Welch 2003; Beaverstock 2004).”
Corporate Ecologies of Business Travel in Professional Service Firms (2009, background): “…are likely to enhance future work on the mobilities paradigm (Sheller and Urry, 2006), knowledge and transient migration studies (Williams, 2007); relational economic geography (Yeung, 2005), the firm (Beaverstock, 2004; Faulconbridge, 2007a) and transport studies (Derudder and Witlox, 2005).”
Determinants of the success of international assignees as knowledge transferors: a theoretical framework (2008, background): “Instead of covering managerial positions, that are now held by an increasingly qualified set of local managers, their role is becoming more strategically oriented towards knowledge transfer and project work (Welch 2003; Beavestock 2004).”
Understanding global flows of venture capital: Human networks as the “carrier wave” of globalization (2009, background): “In an intra firm context, Beaverstock (2004) has attempted to link the emergence of transnational communities within professional service firms to expatriation patterns.”