Restructuring the Professional Organization: Accounting, Health Care and LawDavid Brock, Michael Powell, Michael J. Powell, Christopher Robin Hinings 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. |
Contents
The changing professional organization | 1 |
Internationalization of professional services Implications for accounting firms | 20 |
Global clients demands driving change in global business advisory firms | 41 |
Institutional effects on organizational governance and conformity The case of the Kaiser Permanente and the United States health care field | 68 |
Restructuring law firms Reflexivity and emerging forms | 87 |
The struggle to redefine boundaries in health care systems | 105 |
The dynamics of change in large accounting firms | 131 |
Professionals organizing professionals Comparing the logic of United States and United Kingdom law practice John Flood | 154 |
All fur coat and no knickers Contemporary organizational change in United Kingdom hospitals | 183 |
Continuity and change in professional organizations Evidence from British law firms | 200 |
The restructured professional organization Corporates cobwebs and cowboys | 215 |
References | 230 |
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