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Managing Professional Identities: Knowledge, Performativities and the 'New' Professional (Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks) [Hardcover]

Mike Dent (Editor), Stephen Whitehead (Editor)

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Publication Date: November 21, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0415231205 | ISBN-13: 978-0415231206 | Edition: 1

This book addresses the nature of current shifts in professional and managerial knowledge and practice, particularly in relation to power and accountability. Connecting with current debates concerned with work and identity, the book will present a range of theoretical and empirical accounts of the dilemmas and issues facing specialists in various organizational arenas as they seek to adapt to the challenges of organizational and cultural transformation. Contributions offer innovative and sophisticated theoretical engagements which draw upon various perspectives, including those of post-structuralism, feminism, post-marxism and post-modernism.

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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (November 21, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415231205
ISBN-13: 978-0415231206
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
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The current transformation in managerial practice and theory can be seen as signalling the end of the so-called 'organizational man' (Whyte 1956) and heralding a new type of entrepreneurial professional manager. Read the first page

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managerial professionalism, academic audit, audit explosion, trust production, audit society, managerial discourse, dual presence, discursive subject, professional labour, professional identification, narrative knowledge

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New York, New Zealand, Michael Power, Polity Press, United States, London Sage, London Routledge, Marilyn Strathern, Nova Scotia, European Training Foundation, The Swedish, University of Nottingham

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This book cites 17 books:

Educational Research: Contemporary Issues and Practical Approaches by Jerry Wellington on page 250
Power and Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science series) by Stewart R Clegg in Front Matter
Health Care (Careers for Today) by Linda Barrett in Front Matter
Handbook of Research on Teaching (Macmillan research on education handbook series) by Merlin C. Wittrock on page 251
Education Policy (International Library of Comparative Public Policy, 12) by James Marshall on page 251

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