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Reflections on doing the expat show: performing the global mobility industry
This paper argues that we need to pay more attention to the spaces in which the
(knowledge) economy operates and industry sectors are brought into being. Following
research that examines the performative nature of the economy, the paper sees the trade
show as not merely a reflection of an industry sector, but as a space that produces it
into being. Looking at the Global Mobility Industry, an industry directed towards the
management of expatriates, the paper uses narratives to uncover performance as a
way to understand the practice of knowledge, specifically benchmarking about talent
management, at the Expat Show.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Environment and Planning AVolume
46Issue
5Pages
1124 - 1138Citation
CRANSTON, S., 2014. Reflections on doing the expat show: performing the global mobility industry. Environment and Planning A, 46 (5), pp.1124-1138.Publisher
© PionVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014Notes
Closed access until November 2015. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Environment and Planning A, 46(5) 1124 – 1138, DOI: 10.1068/a46249ISSN
0308-518XPublisher version
Language
- en