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Restructuring the Professional Organization: Accounting, Health Care and Law book cover

1st Edition

Restructuring the Professional Organization Accounting, Health Care and Law

Edited By David Brock, C. R. Hinings, Michael Powell Copyright 2000
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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In recent years the professions have undergone radical transformation. With the advent of rapidly changing markets, more sophisticated and demanding clients, deregulation and increased competition, the generalist professional partnerships have given way to larger, more corporate forms of organization, comprising increasingly autonomous specialist business units. This volume critically examines... Read more
Chapter 1 The changing professional organization, Michael F. Powell, David M. Brock, C. R. Hinings; Chapter 2 Internationalization of professional services, Yair Aharoni; Chapter 3 Global client's demands driving change in global business advisory firms, Teresa Rose, C. R. Hinings; Chapter 4 Institutional effects on organizational governance and conformity, Carol A. Caronna, W. Richard Scott; Chapter 5 Restructuring law firms, John T. Gray; Chapter 6 The struggle to redefine boundaries in health care systems, Jean-Louis Denis, Lise Lamothe, Ann Langley, Annick Valette; Chapter 7 The dynamics of change in large accounting firms, C. R. Hinings, Royston Greenwood, David Cooper; Chapter 8 Professionals organizing professionals, John Flood; Chapter 9 ‘All fur coat and no knickers’, Martin Kitchener; Chapter 10 Continuity and change in professional organizations, Timothy Morris, Ashly Pinnington; Chapter 11 The restructured professional organization, David M. Brock, Michael J. Powell, C. R. Hinings;

Biography

David Brock is Senior Lecturer in International Organization and Strategy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. In addition to his work on professional organizations he has interests in the areas of technology-driven change; planning and strategy in universities; and planning, strategy, and human resource management in multinational subsidiaries.
Michael Powell is Professor of Health Management also at the University of Auckland. His current research interests include changing governance structures in publicly funded healthcare organizations, organizational change and the development of integrated care structures.
C. R. (Bob) Hinings is Thornton A. Graham Professor of Business and Director of the Centre for Professional Service Management at the University of Alberta, Canada. His work covers areas such as change in professional organizations, the emergence of organizational forms, and the recomposition of professional fields.

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