Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour : Established Professions and New Expert Occupations

Muzio, Daniel (EDT); Ackroyd, Stephen (EDT); Chanlat, Jean-Francois (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1403998701 / ISBN 13: 9781403998705

Editore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Codice articolo 4908736-n

Riassunto:

This book explores recent theoretical and empirical advances in the understanding of how professional and knowledge-based occupations are organised. Focusing in particular on the differences between established and emerging forms of expert work, this collection of papers are representative of recent authoritative work in this rapidly developing field. Theauthors suggests that despite some serious challenges, professionalism retains its viability as a work organisation method and continues to exercise a strong influence on the organisation and delivery of expertise.

Informazioni sugli autori:

STEPHEN ACKROYD is Professor of Organizational Analysis in Lancaster University Management School where he is Head of the Department of Organization, Work and Technology. He has conducted various research projects in the NHS over the last twenty years (both alone and with doctoral students). Most of this research in the NHS has shared a focus on the organisation of professional groups within hospitals. This is only one of his research interests, however, and his recent books include: Organizational Misbehaviour (with P. Thompson), Realist Perspectives on Management and Organizations (edited with Steve Fleetwood),The Organization of Business and New Managerialism and Public Service Professions (edited with Ian Kirkpatrick and Richard Walker).

DANIEL MUZIO is Lecturer in Organization, Work and Technology Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, UK.

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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Titolo: Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour :...
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Rilegato
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