Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour: Established Professions and New Expert Occupations

283 Pages·2008·1.53 MB·English

by  Daniel Muzio

Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour
AlsobyStephenAckroyd
DATACOLLECTIONINCONTEXT(withJohnA.Hughes)
INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGYANDPRACTICALPOLICEWORK(withJohn
A.Hughes,K.L.SoothillandR.R.Harper)
ORGANISATIONALMISBEHAVIOUR(withPaulThompson)
REALISTPERSPECTIVESONMANAGEMENTANDORGANISATION(withSteve
Fleetwood)
THEORGANISATIONOFBUSINESS:ApplyingOrganisationTheoryto
ContemporaryChange
CRITICALREALISTAPPLICATIONSINORGANISATIONANDMANAGEMENT
STUDIES(withSteveFleetwood)
THENEWMANAGERIALISMANDTHEPUBLICSERVICEPROFESSIONS
(withIanKirkpatrickandRichardWalker)
THEOXFORDHANDBOOKOFWORKANDORGANISATION(withRoseBatt,
PamelaTolbertandPaulThompson)
AlsobyJean-FrançoisChanlat
L’ANALYSEDESORGANISATIONSUNEANTHOLOGIESOCIOLOGIQUETOME
ILESTHÉORIESDEL’ORGANISATION(withF.Séguin)
L’ANALYSEDESORGANISATIONSUNEANTHOLOGIESOCIOLOGIQUETOME
IILESCOMPOSANTESDEL’ORGANISATION(withF.Séguin)
L’INDIVIDUDANSL’ORGANISATIONLESDIMENSIONSOUBLIÉES
SCIENCESSOCIALESETMANAGEMENT
GESTIONENCONTEXTEINTERCULTUREL:Problématiques,Approcheset
Pratiques(withEduardoDavelandJean-PierreDupuis)
CULTURESETGESTIONDANSLEMONDECONTEMPORAIN:LaPlongée
Interculturelle(dir)(withEduardoDavelandJean-PierreDupuis)
L’ANALYSEDESORGANISATIONSPERSPECTIVESCONTEMPORAINES
ANALISEDASORGANIZAÇOES,PERSPECTIVASLATINAS(withRobertFachin
andTâniaFischer)
Redirections in the Study of
Expert Labour
Established Professions and New Expert
Occupations
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Contents
ListofTables vii
ListofFigures viii
Acknowledgements ix
NotesonContributors x
1 Introduction: Lawyers, Doctors and Business
Consultants 1
Daniel Muzio, Stephen Ackroyd and Jean-François Chanlat
Part I Developments in the Legal Profession
2 Change in the Legal Profession: Professional Agency and the
Legal Labour Process 31
Daniel Muzio and Stephen Ackroyd
3 Partnership and Professionalism in Global Law Firms:
Resurgent Professionalism? 52
John Flood
4 Developments in the Jurisdictions of In-House Legal
Advisors: Researching the Australian Experience 75
Ashly Pinnington and Yuliani Suseno
Part II Interpreting Change in Contemporary
Medicine
5 Medicine, Nursing and Changing Professional
Jurisdictions in the UK 101
Mike Dent
6 Organization and Subjectivity in the US Medical Profession:
Physician Responses to Structural Changes within Advanced
Capitalism 118
Theresa A. Domagalski
7 Community, Market, and Hierarchy in the Evolving
Organization of Professional Work: The Case of Medicine 139
Paul S. Adler and Seok-Woo Kwon
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Part III New Expert Labour: Management Consultancy
and Related Occupations
8 From Taylorism as Product to Taylorism as Process:
Knowledge-Intensive Firms in a Historical Perspective 163
Matthias Kipping and Ian Kirkpatrick
9 Knowledge Narratives and Heterogeneity in Management
Consultancy and Business Services 183
RobinFincham,TimothyClark,KarenHandleyand
Andrew Sturdy
10 ŽGive Professionalization a Chance!^ Why Management
Consulting May Yet Become a Full Profession 204
Christopher D. McKenna
11 The New Professionals: Professionalisation and the
Struggle for Occupational Control in the Field of Project
Management 217
Damian Hodgson
References 235
AuthorIndex 266
SubjectIndex 269
List of Tables
2.1 Percentageandabsolutenumberoffirms,solicitorsand
revenuesacrosssizebands(1989–1990and1999–2000) 37
8.1 Three waves of consultancy development in the
twentiethcentury 168
8.2 Differentmodesoforganizingineachwave 172
9.1 Dimensionsofknowledgenarratives 190
9.2 Definingthecasestudynarratives 197
10.1 Thetwofunctionsofprofessionals:knowledgetransfer
andlegitimacy 212
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List of Figures
2.1 TheproportionofprincipalsandassociatesintheEnglish
andWelshsolicitorfirms 39
2.2 Ratiooffee-earnerstonon-fee-earningstaff 42
2.3 Annual percentage change in the employment of
qualified solicitors and non-fee-earners and annual
percentagechangeingrossfeestoallsolicitorfirms
1988/1989–1999/2000 45
10.1 Triangulartradeoffsinprofessionalization 209
11.1 MembershipofPMI(1970–2005) 225
11.2 TotalnumberofPMIProjectManagementProfessionals
(PMPS)(2004onwards) 226
11.3 PMIsourcesofrevenueandexpenditure 229
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Acknowledgements
Professionals and other experts have been the subject of much discus-
sion amongst colleagues in organisation studies and related fields in
recent years. They have been discussed in various conferences and
workshops,includingseminarsintheLancasterUniversityInstitutefor
Advanced Study in Management and the Social Sciences in 2005 and
2006. However, the present project crystallised in 2005, in the context
ofthe4thconferenceonCriticalManagementStudiesattheUniversity
of Cambridge, when, as the organisers of a stream on the profes-
sions and expert occupations, we realised that it would be possible
to bring together contributions from a number of leading scholars
and researchers who were focussing on similar themes and issues, but
were interested in very different occupations. We saw then that it
would be possible to make a well-focussed comparison of the current
situation of the key occupations of medicine, law and management
consultancy. Selected contributions presented to the Cambridge CMS
conference make up the bulk of this book, however these chapters
have been augmented and integrated with a small number of specially
commissionedadditions.
Theeditorswouldliketothankthefollowinggroupsandindividuals
in the academic community. There are many organisers, contributors
and participants to the above conferences and workshops: people who
gave material and not merely tacit support to our endeavours. In addi-
tion we would like to mention by name the following people: Bob
Jessop, Steve Fleetwood, David Cooper, Royston Greenwood, David
Brock, Glenn Morgan, Sigrid Quack, Mike Reed, James Faulconbridge,
SharonBolton,GerryHanlon,FrankMuller,LauraEmpson,TimMorris
and David Sugarman. We would also like to extend our gratitude to
the publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, and in particular to the commis-
sioningeditorsVirginiaThorpandJackyKippenberger,fortheirsupport
and patience in front of the complications and delays that this project
generated. Finally, we would like to thank Blackwell Publishing for
grantingthepermissiontoreprintsectionsfrom‘OntheConsequences
of Defensive Professionalism: The Transformation of the Legal Labour
Process’byDanielMuzioandStephenAckroyd,originallypublishedin
2005intheJournalofLawandSociety,32(4),pp.615–642.
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