Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour

This book explores recent theoretical and empirical advances in the understanding of how professional occupations are organized. Focusing in particular on the differences between established and emerging forms of expert work, the authors provide unique theoretical perspectives on this rapidly developing field.

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PAUL ADLER Professor at the University of Southern California, USA TIMOTHY CLARK Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Durham Business School, University of Durham, UK MIKE DENT Professor of Health Care Organisation and Director of the Health Policy, Organisation and Evaluation research group at Staffordshire University, UK THERESA DOMAGALSKI Associate Professor of Management at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, USA ROBIN FINCHAM Professor of Organisational Behaviour in the Department of Management, Stirling University, UK KAREN HANDLEY Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK DAMIAN HODGSON Senior Lecturer in Organisational Analysis at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK MATTHIAS KIPPING Professor of Strategic Management and Chair in Business History, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada IAN KIRKPATRICK Professor of Work and Organisation at Leeds University Business School, UK SEOK-WOO KWON Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, USA CHRISTOPHER MCKENNA University Lecturer in Strategy, Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK ASHLY PINNINGTON Professor of Human Resource Management, Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University, UK ANDREW STURDY Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK YULIANI SUSENO Lecturer of Human Resource Management at Aberdeen Business School, the Robert Gordon University, UK

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Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour: Lawyers, Doctors and Business Consultants; D.Muzio, S.Ackroyd & J-F.Chanlat PART I: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION Change in the Legal Profession: Professional Agency and the Legal Labour Process; D.Muzio & S.Ackroyd Partnership and Professionalism in Global Law Firms: Resurgent Professionalism?; J.Flood Developments in the Jurisdictions of In-House Legal Advisors; A.Pinnington & Y.Suseno The Emergence of a New Form of Professional Community: The Case of Medicine; P.Adler & S.Woo PART II: INTERPRETING CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY MEDICINE Medicine, Nursing and Changing Jurisdictions in the UK; M.Dent Organization and Subjectivity and the U.S. Medical Profession: Physician Responses to Structural Changes within Advanced Capitalism; T.Domagalsky Community, Market and Hierarchy in the Evolving Organization of Professional Work: The Case of Medicine; P.Alder & S-W.Kwon PART III: NEW EXPERT LABOUR: MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS From Taylorism as a Product to Taylorism as a Process: Management Consultancy in a Historical Perspective; I.Kirkpatrick & Kipping Knowledge Narratives in Management Consultancy and Business Services; R.Fincham, K.Handley, T.Clark & A.Sturdy Give Professionalization a Chance: Why Management Consulting May Yet Become a Full Profession; C.McKenna The New Professionals: Professionalization and the Struggle for Occupational Control in the Field of Project Management; D.Hodgson