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 eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2006.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of organizations ; v. 24.
Subjects
Professional corporations.
Organizational sociology.
Organizational behavior.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849504072
ISSN0733-558X ;
DOI10.1016/S0733-558X(2006)24
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 431 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • 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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