ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the international professionals travel within a globalized labour market in order to cope with a number of social obligations and face-to-face needs. It points out the research into business travel needs a much stronger focus on the individual social motives for business travel if it is to acquire a more in-depth understanding of the way such types of movement have increased. The chapter presents the two Danish organizations: First it explores the research design, theories and methods of the study will be laid out. Second, the chapter presents the main results of the study. The study of the mobilized knowledge worker that the chapter focuses on the ever increasing number of international business trips taken every year. It addresses the social basis of aeromobility and international work-related travel. The chapter concludes a rethinking of business travel must include a new sociology of business travel focusing on the factors that make business more or less travel-intensive.
