Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Introduction: professions and professional service firms
- Part I: Professions and enterprise in global perspective
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Part II: Changes in professionalism in an enterprise context
- 5 Professionalism as enterprise: service class politics and the redefinition of professionalism (with Postscript: Extinguishing professionalism?)
- 6 Enterprise, hybrid professionalism and the public sector
- 7 Entrepreneurship and professional service firms: the team, the firm, the ecosystem and the field
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Part III: 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
- 9 Regulation and governance of the professions: institutional work and the demise of ‘delegated’ self-regulation of the accounting profession
- 10 The medical profession, enterprise and the public interest
- Index
Product information
- Title: Professions and Professional Service Firms
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2018
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317197881
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