Professions and Professional Service Firms

Private and Public Sector Enterprises in the Global Economy
Herausgeber: Saks, Mike; Muzio, Daniel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addressing both private and public sectors, this collection explores questions including: what are the implications for the culture, practices and identities of professions of working in enterprise contexts, including with increased globalisation? Are professions becoming more entrepreneurial in a knowledge economy? What are the tensions between professionalism and enterprise and how are these resolved? This cutting-edge collection will be of interest to researchers, educators and advanced students studying professional behaviour in fields such as business studies, management, organizational analysis, public administration, political science, social policy and sociology, as well as students on focused programmes of professional study in fields such as health, law and social care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138675957
• ISBN-10: 1138675954
• Artikelnr.: 52712987

Autorenporträt

Mike Saks is Emeritus Professor at the University of Suffolk, UK. He has published more than fifteen edited and sole-authored books on professions, health, regulation, and research methods with leading publishers, including five volumes with Routledge, and many articles and book chapters on these subjects. Daniel Muzio is Professor of Professions and Organisation at Newcastle University, UK. His research has been published in leading journals and he is a founding editor of the Journal of Professions and Organization and associate editor of Gender, Work and Organization and the Journal of Management Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Professions, professional service firms and enterprise-
MIKE SAKS AND DANIEL MUZIO; PART ONE: PROFESSIONS AND ENTERPRISE IN GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVE; 2 Professions and entrepreneurship in international
perspective- KEVIN T. LEICHT; 3 Professions and professional service firms
in a global context: Reframing narratives- JOHN FLOOD; 4 Professional
strategies and enterprise in transnational projects- JACOB HASSELBALCH AND
LEONARD SEABROOKE; PART TWO: CHANGES IN PROFESSIONALISM IN AN ENTERPRISE
CONTEXT: 5 Professionalism as enterprise: Service class politics and the
redefinition of professionalism (with Postscript: Extinguishing
professionalism?)- GERARD HANLON; 6 Enterprise, hybrid professionalism and
the public sector- MIRKO NOORDEGRAAF; 7 Entrepreneurship and professional
service firms: The team, the firm, the ecosystem and the field- MARKUS
REIHLEN, ANDREAS WERR AND CHRISTOPH SECKLER; PART THREE: KEY ISSUES RELATED
TO PROFESSIONS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE FIRMS; 8 The implications for
gender of work in professional service firms: The case of law and
accountancy- HILARY SOMMERLAD AND LOUISE ASHLEY; 9 Regulation and
governance of the professions: Institutional work and the demise of
'delegated' self-regulation of the accounting profession- MARY CANNING AND
BRENDAN O'DWYER; 10 The medical profession, enterprise and the public
interest-MIKE SAKS