Globally, the increased reliance on consultants and contract employees has raised many
concerns vis‐à‐vis more traditional “in‐house” provision. One such concern is the manner in …

Drawing on the 'corporate professionalization'model (;) of new strategies adopted by
managerial occupations, this article explores professionalization processes taking into …

Professionalization is one of the most ancient and popular issues in the sociology of the
professions. Starting from the seminal article of Harold Wilensky (1964), scholars have …

The traditional debate about professional groups has mainly focused on conflicts between
professions and organizations, reinforcing dualisms and dichotomies. Few scholars have …

Tutkin tässä luvussa yhdistelmätyön tekemisen ehtoja ja työtä neljässä ammattiryhmässä.
Yhdistelmätyöstä on saatavilla niukasti tutkimusperäistä tietoa, ja suurin osa siitä on joko …

Management consultancy has long been a contested terrain in the sociology of the
professions. Although the professionalism of management consultants has always been …

In modern industrial societies, strongly associating work to tangible productivity and
professions to formal regulation and protection of membership, the music occupation has …

In this chapter, we discuss how multi-professional organisations, such as mutual aid
cooperatives of creative workers, operate as agents of differentiation within and between …

Drawing on the corporate professionalization model, the notion of client professionalization
denotes new, client-oriented strategies of legitimization and claims relating to expertise …

This chapter explores phenomenologically the relationship between organised crime and
lawyers by analysing the case of the Sicilian Mafia. Referred to as Cosa Nostra, this criminal …