Professions and Professional Service Firms: Private and Public Sector Enterprises in the Global Economy

ISBN-13: 9780367735142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 202 str.

Mike Saks; Daniel Muzio

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.