The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

General Introduction: The Challenging Worlds of Professions and Professionalism

Mike Dent, Tracey L. Adams, Swethaa Ballakrishnen and Jean-Louis Denis

PART I. Theories of Professions and Professionalism

Introduction: Jean-Louis Denis and Mike Dent

1.      Sociological Theories of Professions and their Links to Organizations

Mike Saks

2.      A Paradox Perspective: The Redefinition of Medical Professionalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Catherine Régis and Gianluca Veronesi 

3.   Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality in Professions and Potential Professions: Analytical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Jeff Hearn, Ingrid Biese and Marta Choroszewicz

4.    Black Perspectives on the Professions and Professionalism

Stephanie Sisco and Dane Verret

5.     Professionals and Citizenship: The Impact of Democratization

Evelien Tonkens and Margo Trappenburg

6.      Professions and Professionals under Stress: Responses to Legitimate Social Claims for EDI

Jean-Louis Denis and Nancy Côté

PART II. Professional Governance

Introduction: Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen and Tracey L. Adams

7.      Professional Regulation

Tracey L. Adams

8.      Trust in Systems, Professions and Professionals

Patrick Brown and Michael Calnan

9.      Bureaucracy and Professionals in Populist Administration: Shifts in the Brazilian Environmental Governance

Cristiana Maglia

10. Transnational Professionals

Brooke Harrington and Leonard Seabrooke

11.    Professional Brokerage: Lawyers in the Negotiation of Africa’s Relationship with the World Economy

Sara Dezalay

12.    Platformization of Professional Governance

Seppo Poutanen and Anne Kovalainen

13.    Ideal Minorities and Inclusion Cultures in the Legal Profession

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen

Part III. Professions, Management, and Leadership

Introduction: Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen and Jean-Louis Denis 

14.    Restructuring Professional Organizations

C.R. (Bob) Hinings

15.    The Professionalization of Management

Kevin T. Leicht

16.    Hybrid Managers and Professional Leadership

Ian Kirkpatrick

17.    Leadership, Managerialism, and Professionalism under the Neoliberal State: Transitions in Expert Power and Control

Michael I. Reed and Cara J. Reed

18.    Professionals and Co-Creation in a Context of Institutional Complexity

Nicolette van Gestel, Wiljan Hendrikx and Marlot Kuiper

19.    Collegiality in Contemporary Professional Service Firms

Laura Empson

Part IV. Current Trends and Challenges in Professional Work

Introduction: Tracey L. Adams and Mike Dent

20.    In the Market – Teachers’ Conditions for Work in Times of Policy Change

Karolina Parding, Meghan Stacey, Mihajla Gavin, Anna Berg Jansson, Susan McGrath-Champ, Rachel Wilson and Scott Fitzgerald

21.    Academic Professionalism: Eroded, Protected or Consolidated in the European Context?

Nicky Le Feuvre, Pat O’Connor, and Sevil Sümer

22.    Regulation, Crisis and Tax Consultants

Silke Ötsch

23.    From Fried Eggs to Frittata

Susan Nancarrow and Alan Borthwick

24.    Professional Mobilities

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Sirpa Wrede, Cecilia Benoit, Elena Neiterman

25.    AI Safety as a Space between Fields

Anna Thieser and Gil Eyal

26.    Partial Professions: Aspiration, Mobility and Professional Possibility in Indian Gig Work

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen and Isha Bhallamudi

Biography

Mike Dent is Emeritus Professor at Staffordshire University, UK.

Tracey L. Adams is Professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen is Professor of Law and (by courtesy) Sociology, Asian American Studies and Criminology,Law and Society the University of California, Irvine and the Neukons Fellow Research Chair in Diversity at the American Bar Association.

Jean-Louis Denis is Full Professor in Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health (ESPUM), University of Montreal, Canada.