This article explicates the causal connections between changes in professional jurisdictions
and changes in organizational fields. The authors argue that professional projects carry …

This collection seeks to reconnect two separate streams of work on professional
organizations and professional occupations. In particular the articles collected here identify …

The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in
explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of …

abstract Current theories propose that professional competence is primarily constituted by
scientific and tacit knowledge, knowing‐in‐action, understanding of work or practice. While …

This article explores patterns of professionalization in a number of 'new'knowledge-based
occupations: management consultancy, project management and executive headhunters …

This article analyses the concept of skills and identifies the skills needed by entrepreneurs to
lead their teams. To accomplish these goals, the primary step was to determine the …

This paper seeks to better understand the way staff professionals bring professional
practices inside their organization by examining how they enact a practical agency to …

Abstract The Anglo‐American institution of the profession is mutating: we propose to analyse
this mutation as a contested diffusion process that spreads new organizing practices among …

Management consultants are typically seen as key mediators in the flow of management
ideas. And yet little is known about exactly what happens when they work together with …

abstract We examine the roles of episodic and systemic forms of power in radical
organizational change. Drawing on a study of three attempted transformations in …