Safety professionals have been working within organizations since the early 1900s. During
the past 25 years, societal pressure and political intervention concerning the management of …

Shareholders have become increasingly active in endeavouring to influence companies'
environmental and social practices. In comparison with the mature field of financially …

In this paper we examine established practice regarding the reporting, justification and
number of interview participants chosen within organization and workplace studies. For such …

'Institutional work'has evolved from a concept introduced to capture a set of actions
described in institutional research, to a perspective on the relationship between institutions …

abstract Beginning with this article, our special issue advances the understanding of the role
of professions in processes of institutional change and through this it proposes a …

Specialization within professions creates challenges for maintaining the macro-level values
of the profession in the everyday work of specialists at the micro level inside organizations …

A central debate in critical management studies (CMS) revolves around the concern that
critical research has rather little influence on what managers do in practice. We argue that …

In the issue-selling literature, little attention has been paid to the struggles of those
managers who try to sell social issues to potential issue buyers who are not particularly …

The assumption of a mutually supportive,'symmetric'relationship between institutionalization
and professionalization is central to the institutionalist perspective on professional work. Our …

The study of professions has a long and varied intellectual history. Early theories, emanating
primarily from the fields of sociology and economics, sought to understand the essential …