| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 431 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Research in the sociology of organizations,
0733-558X ;
v. 24
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Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 24.
0733-558X
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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 K(c)·arreman -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Professions.
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Professions. |
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Service industries.
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Service industries. |
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Organizational sociology.
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Organizational sociology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Greenwood, Royston.
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Suddaby, Roy.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Professional service firms. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2006 0762313021 (OCoLC)64313724 |
| ISBN |
0080462987 (electronic book) |
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9780080462981 (electronic book) |
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9781849504072 (electronic book) |
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1849504075 (electronic book) |
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