EXECUTIVE SEARCH IN FRANCE AND EUROPE IN THANE

In its first part (397 pages), this second edition covers the field previously detailed in 1998 for the "France" part, and provides full details about the Top Executive Search Firm profession in France, through an in-depth, precise analysis of 63 Executive Search Firms selected by the author, with a biography for all the Managing Partners and Consultants referred to in the study (415 Executive Search Consultants). Three Interim Management firms are also presented and analyzed. The second part of the work (359 pages) is dedicated on the one hand to the major European and International Executive Search networks, and on the other, provides detailed information such as a directory of 250 firms or offices, in 20 European countries outside of France. The book is approximately 8 by 10 inches, has 756 pages, and is available in French or English. The study, realized by Patrick James Bruneteau, Executive Search Consultant for eighteen years, initially a Managing Partner of PJB International Management and later of B and Associates from 1996 on, uses the same formula as the previous edition and adds several new chapters on how to work with an executive search Firm and/or a Consultant, an expanded bibliography which includes the author's comments, and a series of articles written by several major proponents of the direct approach method, both French and Anglo-Saxon. The work also contains two surveys conducted at the beginning of the year 2000 with 1,000 French Company and Group directors, and more than 80 Executive Search Firm Managing Partners whom the author met and interviewed personally. A CD-ROM is included with the book and introduces the study, while providing the user with clickable links to the Web sites of some fifty French and Anglo-Saxon Executive Search Firms.