Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Lawyers, Doctors and Business Consultants

   1. Introduction: Lawyers, Doctors and Business Consultants

      • Daniel Muzio, Stephen Ackroyd, Jean-François Chanlat

      Pages 1-28

3. Developments in the Legal Profession

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Change in the Legal Profession: Professional Agency and the Legal Labour Process

      • Daniel Muzio, Stephen Ackroyd

      Pages 31-51

   3. Partnership and Professionalism in Global Law Firms: Resurgent Professionalism?

      • John Flood

      Pages 52-74

   4. Developments in the Jurisdictions of In-House Legal Advisors: Researching the Australian Experience

      • Ashly Pinnington, Yuliani Suseno

      Pages 75-97

4. Interpreting Change in Contemporary Medicine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. Medicine, Nursing and Changing Professional Jurisdictions in the UK

      • Mike Dent

      Pages 101-117

   3. Organization and Subjectivity in the US Medical Profession: Physician Responses to Structural Changes within Advanced Capitalism

      • Theresa A. Domagalski

      Pages 118-138

   4. Community, Market, and Hierarchy in the Evolving Organization of Professional Work: The Case of Medicine

      • Paul S. Adler, Seok-Woo Kwon

      Pages 139-160

5. New Expert Labour: Management Consultancy and Related Occupations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. From Taylorism as Product to Taylorism as Process: Knowledge-Intensive Firms in a Historical Perspective

      • Matthias Kipping, Ian Kirkpatrick

      Pages 163-182

   3. Knowledge Narratives and Heterogeneity in Management Consultancy and Business Services

      • Robin Fincham, Timothy Clark, Karen Handley, Andrew Sturdy

      Pages 183-203

   4. ‘Give Professionalization a Chance!’ Why Management Consulting May Yet Become a Full Profession

      • Christopher D. McKenna

      Pages 204-216

   5. The New Professionals: Professionalisation and the Struggle for Occupational Control in the Field of Project Management

      • Damian Hodgson

      Pages 217-234

6. Back Matter

   Pages 235-272

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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.

• business
• management
• organization
• organizations
• project management
• service

• Work and Employment Division, Leeds University Business School, UK

  Daniel Muzio

• Lancaster University Management School, UK

  Stephen Ackroyd

• Université Paris Dauphine, France

  Jean-François Chanlat

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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