2019
DOI: 10.1093/jpo/joz014
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Professionalization through symbolic and social capital: Evidence from the careers of elite consultants

Abstract: This article contributes to the debate about how more recent professions, especially those related to management, might achieve a semblance of ‘professionalism’ in the absence of the conditions that facilitated the creation of the traditional professions such as medicine, law or accounting in the 19th century. Much of the recent literature has either argued that these professions had to rely on some form of ‘image professionalism’ or that the professionalization process was ‘captured’ by the dominant firms wit… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

2
18
0
1

Year Published

2020
2020
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
7
1

Relationship

0
8

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 15 publications
(21 citation statements)
references
References 70 publications
2
18
0
1
Order By: Relevance
“…Complementing prior work grounded in social identity theory that suggests a person’s self-understanding of who they are can be enhanced by affiliation with a prominent brand (e.g., Tavassoli, Sorescu, and Chandy 2014), our work aligns with prior literature (e.g. Kipping, Bülhmann, and David 2019) which suggests working in a prestigious post can positively influence a person’s standing in the eyes of other stakeholders in a field. Moreover, by analyzing the practices of professional brands in prestigious posts through a field lens, we have surfaced hitherto neglected factors that may fuel, if not disloyalty to an employer, at least some efforts to limit the extent to which the professional brand is conflated or viewed as synonymous with that of the organizational brand that employs them.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 71%
See 2 more Smart Citations
“…Complementing prior work grounded in social identity theory that suggests a person’s self-understanding of who they are can be enhanced by affiliation with a prominent brand (e.g., Tavassoli, Sorescu, and Chandy 2014), our work aligns with prior literature (e.g. Kipping, Bülhmann, and David 2019) which suggests working in a prestigious post can positively influence a person’s standing in the eyes of other stakeholders in a field. Moreover, by analyzing the practices of professional brands in prestigious posts through a field lens, we have surfaced hitherto neglected factors that may fuel, if not disloyalty to an employer, at least some efforts to limit the extent to which the professional brand is conflated or viewed as synonymous with that of the organizational brand that employs them.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 71%
“…This article offers insights that are timely in an era when people must be ever more attentive to managing their career mobility and entrepreneurial options, considering that people who hold prestigious posts must always be ready to seek their next opportunity (cf. Godart et al 2015; Kipping, Bühlmann, and David, 2019; Wang, Gupta, and Grewal 2017). We hope our study helps those managing their professional brands in these precarious times.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…Мир современных занятий в области управления и финансов стал активно развиваться вместе с организационным усложнением индустриального и постиндустриального общества, и эти занятия не могли повторять путь профессионализации, который прошли «старые профессии», подобные праву и медицине. Поэтому стратегия профессионализации «новых» занятий строилась на организационном, институциональном и культурном мимезисе уже сложившихся профессий -включая создание системы образования, ассоциаций, притязания на теоретическое осмысление практической работы и т. д. Международная группа исследователей охарактеризовала специфику профессионализации таких новых занятий, которые в основном сконцентрированы в «профессиональных сервисных фирмах» (professional service firms or PSF) и включают широкий спектр деятельностей,управленческий консалтинг, архитектуру, дизайн и другие интеллектуальные услуги [Kipping, Buhlmann, David, 2019]. Эти занятия стремятся формировать «имидж» профессии, воспроизводя основные элементы институционального декора профессионализма, но в основном они формируются в организационной среде «мягких бюрократий» и их труд опирается на менеджериалистские принципы, а поэтому их путь профессионализации несколько иной, чем был у «старых» профессий: он связан с карьерными возможностями, репутацией и позицией их организации, а также с конвертацией различных типов капитала в сфере своей специализации.…”
Section: современная социология профессий: международный контекстunclassified
“…(2020) on banking; and Kipping et al. (2019) on elite consultants. A related stream of work on institutional logics, either concerning their intractability (Raelin, 1991; Reay & Hinings, 2009) or the possibility of hybridity (Adams, 2020; van Schothorst, et al., 2020), or even “fluidity” (ten Dam & Waardenburg, 2020).…”
Section: Research On Professional Organizationsmentioning
confidence: 99%