Professional service firms

This volume includes studies of organizations that deliver professional services, including accounting, law, and management consulting firms. These organizations are of importance for several reasons: they underpin the modern economy, enabling economic exchange; they constitute the 'intellect i...

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Other Authors: Greenwood, Royston., Suddaby, Roy.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2006.
Series: Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 24.
Subjects:
Business & Economics > Management.
Service industries.
Professional corporations.
Organizational sociology.
Organizational behavior.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781849504072 (electronic bk.) :
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 431 p.).

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300 |a 1 online resource (xiii, 431 p.). 
490 1 |a Research in the sociology of organizations,  |x 0733-558X ;  |v v. 24 
505 0 |a Introduction / Royston Greenwood, Roy Suddaby, Megan McDougald -- Leading change in the new professional service firm : characterizing strategic leadership in a global context / Evelyn Fenton, Andrew Pettigrew -- Partnership versus corporation : implications of alternative forms of governance in professional service firms / Laura Empson, Chris Chapman -- Markets, institutions, and the crisis of professional practice / Kevin T. Leicht, Elizabeth C.W. Lyman -- Variation in organizational form among professional service organizations / Namrata Malhotra, Timothy Morris, C.R. (Bob) Hinings -- Professional service firms as collectivities : a cultural and processual view / Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman -- Professionals, networking and the networked professional / Fiona Anderson-Gough, Christopher Grey, Keith Robson -- Professional ethics in formal organizations / Hugh P. Gunz, Sally P. Gunz -- Can women in law have it all? : a study of motherhood, career satisfaction and life balance / Jean E. Wallace -- Computer-mediated knowledge systems in consultancy firms : do they work? / Markus Reihlen, Torsten Ringberg -- Marketing marketing : the professional project as a micro-discursive accomplishment / Peter Svensson -- Social structure, employee mobility, and the circulation of client ties / Joseph P. Broschak, Keri M. Niehans -- The internationalisation of professional service firms : global convergence, national path-dependency or cross-border hybridisation? / Glenn Morgan, Sigrid Quack -- The strategic positioning of professional service firm start-ups : balance beguiles but purism pays / Jennifer E. Jennings, P. Devereaux Jennings, Royston Greenwood -- Are consultants moving towards professionalization? / Claudia Gro, Alfred Kieser. 
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650 0 |a Organizational behavior. 
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