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

Rationale Enhancing health system effectiveness, efficiency, and appropriateness is a
management priority in most world countries. Scholars and practitioners have focused on …

Professionals working in professional service firms rely on their human capital and social
capital to deliver value in their service provision and delivery to clients. However, research to …

Professions have long provided a dependable body of expertise that organisations have
relied upon to fulfil goals. Issues around equality and diversity alongside challenges to …

Interest in international patient travel and trade in healthcare has grown considerably over
the past decade. Whilst the field is under-researched, patients' motivation to travel to seek …

This dissertation aims to understand surgical work as a craft and explore how surgery
maintains its craft character in the face of transformations in medical technologies and the …

Hekimlik mesleği yüksek statülü, yüksek derecede otonomisi olan, uzun ve yorucu formel bir
eğitimin yanında ustalık ve uzmanlık gerektiren köklü bir meslektir. Günümüzde neoliberal …

Abstract Sure Start Children's Centres deliver a wide range of services to families with young
children. For over a decade an important aspect of Sure Start has been collaborative work …

This dissertation explores the apparent contradiction between the independence and
autonomy of an elite profession and the pursuit of collective bargaining. Crown prosecutors …

Professionals in knowledge-intensive firms rely on their human capital and social capital to
deliver value in their professional services to clients. In this study of corporate lawyers and …