Professions and Professional Service Firms
Private and Public Sector Enterprises in the Global Economy
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
202 pages
978-0-367-73514-2 (ISBN)
Description
Professions are increasingly linked with enterprise at a number of interrelated levels. By considering the relationship of professions to the enterprise contexts in which they work, this book reveals the dilemmas posed to professional groups, and the opportunities and constraints that can arise in their organisational frameworks.
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? These are themes that are extremely important to professionals and their managers, especially with the rise of large-scale professional service firms serving corporate clients with truly global reach.
This cutting-edge collection will be of interest to researchers, educators and advanced students studying professional behaviour in fields such as business studies, management, organisational 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.
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? These are themes that are extremely important to professionals and their managers, especially with the rise of large-scale professional service firms serving corporate clients with truly global reach.
This cutting-edge collection will be of interest to researchers, educators and advanced students studying professional behaviour in fields such as business studies, management, organisational 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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-73514-2 (9780367735142)
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Mike Saks | Daniel Muzio
Professions and Professional Service Firms
Private and Public Sector Enterprises in the Global Economy
Book
03/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
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Mike Saks | Daniel Muzio
Professions and Professional Service Firms
Private and Public Sector Enterprises in the Global Economy
E-Book
03/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€59.49
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Mike Saks | Daniel Muzio
Professions and Professional Service Firms
Private and Public Sector Enterprises in the Global Economy
E-Book
03/2018
Routledge
€59.49
Available for download
Persons
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.
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.
Content
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