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THE INTERNATIONALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

The case of executive search firms in Australia

Jonathan Beaverstock and William S. Harvey

Introduction

There is now an established literature on the internationalization of global professional service firms (PSFs) (e.g. Aharoni, 1993; Brock, Powell & Hinings, 1999; Jones, 2005; Morgan & Quack, 2006; Faulconbridge, Hall & Beaverstock, 2008; Segal-Horn & Dean, 2011; Boussebaa, Morgan & Sturdy, 2012; Brock, 2012; Muzio & Faulconbridge, 2013). Yet, within these literatures, there remains a knowledge deficit and a lack of evidence-based understandings of internationalization outside of North America and Europe, although there are notable exceptions within the field of Economic ...

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