Mike Dent - The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism is a state-of-the-art reference work which maps out the current developments and debates around the sociology of the professions, and how they relate to management and organizations.

Supported by an international contributor team specializing in the disciplines of organizational studies and sociology, the collection provides extensive coverage of this field of research. It brings together the core concepts and issues, and has chapters on all the key aspects of professions in both the public and private sectors, including issues of governance and regulation. The volume closes with a set of international case studies which provide valuable practical insights into the subject.

This Companion will be an indispensable reference source for students, scholars and educators within the social sciences, especially within management, organizational studies and sociology. It will also be highly relevant for those working and studying in the area of professional education.

Mike Dent is Emeritus Professor, Staffordshire University and Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester, UK.

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault is Professor in the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Jean-Louis Denis is Full Professor at the cole Nationale dAdministration Publique (NAP), Canada.

Ellen Kuhlmann is a Senior Researcher at the Medical Management Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.

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The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

Edited by Mike Dent, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Jean-Louis Denis and Ellen Kuhlmann

The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

Edited by Mike Dent, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Jean-Louis Denis and Ellen Kuhlmann

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

Names: Dent, Mike, 1944 editor.

Title: The Routledge companion to the professions and professionalism / edited by Mike Dent, Ivy Bourgeault, Jean-Louis Denis and Ellen Kuhlmann.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015049544| ISBN 9781138018891 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315779447 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Professions. | Professional employees. | Professional ethics. | Personnel management. | Knowledge management.

Classification: LCC HD8038.A1 R68 2016 | DDC 331.702dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049544

ISBN: 978-1-138-01889-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-77944-7 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo

by Out of House Publishing

Contents

Mike Dent, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Jean-Louis Denis and Ellen Kuhlmann

PART I
Theories and contemporary context of professions and professionalism

Stephen Ackroyd

Ellen Kuhlmann, Tuba Agartan and Mia von Knorring

Evelien Tonkens

Jeff Hearn, Ingrid Biese, Marta Choroszewicz and Liisa Husu

Mike Saks

PART II
Governing the professions and professionalism

Viola Burau

Ruth McDonald and Crawford Spence

Seppo Poutanen and Anne Kovalainen

Patrick Brown and Michael Calnan

Teresa Carvalho and Rui Santiago

PART III
Professions, management and leadership

C. R. (Bob) Hinings

Ian Kirkpatrick

Kevin T. Leicht

Michael I. Reed

Jean-Louis Denis, Nicolette van Gestel and Annick Lepage

PART IV
Global professionalism and the emerging economies