Market ordering as a device for market-making: the case of the emerging students’ recruitment industry

Komljenovič, Janja

doi:10.1080/14767724.2017.1330136

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“…By examining how real‐estate businesses provide services to foreign students in Australia, they argue that such businesses mediate the spheres of education and real estate to Chinese candidates who seek to study in Australia (Robertson & Rogers, 2017). Komljenovic (2017) has similarly applied the framework of market order when examining the market for foreign student recruitment. Komljenovic's work claims that an educational institution combines two already existing markets: the higher education market and the international student market.…”

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Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam

Muranaka

2021

Global Networks

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The field of migration studies regards intermediaries as actors who manage the mobility of people, but academic works on their roles in the making of cross‐border labour markets remain scarce. Using the frameworks of market‐making and relational work, this study examines how Japanese intermediaries participate in the making of a cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam. The study's findings are threefold. First, linguistic certification by an intermediary serves as a gatekeeper of labour's quality and allows an officially implemented linguistic boundary to shift. Second, intermediaries train employers and skilled migrant worker candidates by adjusting their presentation in recruitment venues. Third, intermediaries assist in officializing the employment relationship between employers and migrant workers. This study argues that, due to the absence of a concrete migration policy in Japan, intermediaries actively participate in market‐making practices by shifting, adjusting and making visible the boundaries within cross‐border labour exchanges.

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Section: Intermediaries and Cross‐border Labour Market‐makingmentioning

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Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam

Muranaka

2021

Global Networks

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“…In 2016 it was estimated that the global education sector was worth 4.3 trillion and that its value was set to continue growing (Verger et al, 2016). As global finance capitalist firms invest in what they see rightly as a high-profit sector, complex networks of influence have developed with the emergence of intermediaries actors (law firms, accountancy firms, consultants, lobbyists, recruiters) (Verger et al, 2016a;Komljenovic, 2017).…”

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British Elite Private Schools and Their Overseas Branches: Unexpected Actors in the Global Education Industry

Bunnell

Courtois

Donnelly

2020

British Journal of Educational Studies

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Our paper examines the opening of branches overseas ('satellite colleges') by elite private schools mainly located in England ('founding colleges'), largely in emerging economies of the Middle East and South East Asia. We trace the development of these 'satellite colleges' over three successive waves of growth, from opportunistic venturing in Thailand in the late-1990s to their recent rapid growth in numbers in a phase characterized by the market entry of new actors and geographic diversification. We argue that the emergence of these schools occurs in line with the continued intensification and diversification of the GEI. This implies a significant shift in the modes of legitimation on which British elite schools typically rely. This desire to pragmatically seek out a reliable, low-cost alternative revenue stream 'back home' is still driving the supply but does not on its own explain the unprecedented growth of activity characterizing the current 'third wave'. Further, a number of new school openings is already planned (Phillips, 2017), pointing towards a possible 'fourth wave' emerging in the near future.Despite its current rapid upward growth slope, and the involvement of 'icons of elite education' (Bow, 2017), the 'satellite college model' has attracted very little attention beyond the British-based trade press, as well as a single piece of sustained analysis by Bunnell (2008) when the phenomenon was in its infancy. 1 While in higher education, the 'International Branch Campus' (IBC) phenomenon is relatively well researched (e.g. Kosmützky, 2018;Liu and Lin, 2017), its school-level counterpart is still largely ignored by academic comment or research, and remains almost entirely under-theorized.This paper is based on data collated from publicly available data sources including the trade press, school websites, and industry reports. It charts and analyses the emergence of the 'satellite college model' as part of the trend of marketization and globalization of education.More specifically, we locate this phenomenon at the intersection of two significant trends typically analyzed separately. On the one hand, there is the enduring appeal of an exclusive, British 'elite' education for the aspiring middle classes worldwide (Kenway and McCarthy, 2014;Ayling 2019;Brooks and Waters, 2015), and on the other, there is the remarkable expansion of the 'global education industry' (GEI) (Ball, 2012;Parreira do Amaral et al., 2019;

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“…The agent is normally paid on results or through a retainer (Komljenovic 2017). HEIs use agents because agents are assumed to have greater knowledge and access to local markets and to be able to operate at lower costs (OBHE 2014).…”

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“…With the expansion of the industry, there comes some limited form of industry self-regulation (e.g. ICEF's certification) (Komljenovic 2017) or third-party regulation (e.g. British Council's code of practice).…”

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Governance of agents in the recruitment of international students: a typology of contractual management approaches in higher education

Huang

Williamson

Lynch‐Wood

et al. 2020

Studies in Higher Education

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We gratefully acknowledge the encouragement from Dr Creso Sá, the editor, and the very helpful comments and suggestions from the anonymous reviewers on a previous draft of this paper. We would like to thank all international managers who participated in the interviews, shared their agency agreements and responded to the survey. We would like to thank all colleagues and organizations who provided generous support during consultation and data collection stages.

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Market ordering as a device for market-making: the case of the emerging students’ recruitment industry

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam

Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam

British Elite Private Schools and Their Overseas Branches: Unexpected Actors in the Global Education Industry

Governance of agents in the recruitment of international students: a typology of contractual management approaches in higher education

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