Reflections on Doing the Expat Show

Performing the Global Mobility Industry

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4139045
AutoresSophie Cranston (0000-0001-7068-7029, University of Edinburgh, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume46
Fascículo5
Páginas1124-1138
Data de publicação2014-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a46249
OpenAlexW1976162989
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas47

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

Aesthetics · Art · Benchmarking · Business · Hotel industry · Industrial organization · Knowledge management · Narrative · Performative utterance · Political science · Reflection (computer programming) · Space (punctuation) · Tourism · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Human Resource and Talent Management · Management and Organizational Studies · Marketing