Part I: The challenge to professions, Ian Glover and Michael Hughes. Part II Independent professions: the governance of law - the structure and work of corporate lawyers, John Flood; understanding consultancy as performance - the dramaturgical metaphor, Tim Clark and Graeme Salaman; the doctor-patient relationship - an essay on the theory of the professions, Michael Kelly and Ian Glover. Part III Public sector professions: public professionals or public servants? making sense of UK local government bodies' codes of ethics, Charles Booth; Victorian values in Victorian buildings? the museum profession and management, Stuart Davies; footing the bill - professionalization and the police service, Jane Goodsir. Part IV Organizational professions: restructuring and repositioning of the UK engineering profession, Tony Millman; marketing - the limits of professionalism, Don Bathie; future imperfect - the uncertain prospects of the British accountant, Robin Roslender, Ian Glover and Michael Kelly; politics and professionalism - pursuing managerialism in personnel, Barbara Paterson; the undisclosed bankers, Mark Hughes; managing information technology professionals - a crisis in management control, Wendie Currie and Colin Bryson; the triumph of hierarchies over markets - information systems specialists in the current context, Stephen Ackroyd, Stephen Bull, Wendy Currie and Ian Glover. Part V Discussion: fragmentation, cooperation and continuity - towards a flexible technocratic synthesis?, Ian Glover and Michael Hughes.
