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View article: Editorial: Best Early Career Paper Prize
Editorial: Best Early Career Paper Prize Open
View article: Trajectories of legal work in the context of machine learning AI: conceptualising mediated evolution
Trajectories of legal work in the context of machine learning AI: conceptualising mediated evolution Open
View article: Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms Open
Machine learning algorithms, as one form of artificial intelligence, are significant for professional work because they create the possibility for some predictions, interpretations and judgements that inform decision-making to be made by a…
View article: The Journal of Economic Geography in 2024 and beyond
The Journal of Economic Geography in 2024 and beyond Open
The Journal of Economic Geography in 2024 and beyondThe Journal of Economic Geography (JoEG) is 23 years old in 2024.Since its birth in the early years of this century, the journal has continually evolved as successive disruptive forces th…
View article: Theory‐Driven Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Business and Management
Theory‐Driven Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Business and Management Open
Shuang Ren, Riikka M. Sarala, Paul Hibbert The advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has sparked both enthusiasm and anxiety as different stakeholders grapple with the potential to reshape the business and management landscape…
View article: How Professionals Adapt to Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Intertwined Boundary Work
How Professionals Adapt to Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Intertwined Boundary Work Open
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has generated extensive debates about the future of work in the professions. However, few studies take account of the potential for AI's disruptive effects to trigger robust defence by professionals…
View article: How information technology automates and augments processes: Insights from Artificial‐Intelligence‐based systems in professional service operations
How information technology automates and augments processes: Insights from Artificial‐Intelligence‐based systems in professional service operations Open
This study contributes to the technology management literature on the effects of IT on operations processes by examining the use of systems based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in professional services. The paper builds on key concepts on…
View article: Data for: Studying disruptive events: innovations in behaviour, opportunities for lower carbon transport policy?
Data for: Studying disruptive events: innovations in behaviour, opportunities for lower carbon transport policy? Open
This is data pertaining to a study of travel disruptions in the UK
View article: Work, ICT and Travel in Multinational Corporations: The Synthetic Work Mobility Situation
Work, ICT and Travel in Multinational Corporations: The Synthetic Work Mobility Situation Open
Theorising the relationships between information communication technology (ICT), travel and work continues to preoccupy researchers interested in multinational corporations (MNCs). One motivation is the desire to understand ways of reducin…
View article: Work, ICT and travel in multinational corporations: the synthetic work mobility situation
Work, ICT and travel in multinational corporations: the synthetic work mobility situation Open
Theorising the relationships between information communication technology (ICT), travel and work continues to preoccupy researchers interested in multinational corporations (MNCs). One motivation is the desire to understand ways of reducin…
View article: Studying disruptive events: Innovations in behaviour, opportunities for lower carbon transport policy?
Studying disruptive events: Innovations in behaviour, opportunities for lower carbon transport policy? Open
View article: Studying Disruptive Events: Innovations in Behaviour, Opportunities for Lower Carbon Adaptations?
Studying Disruptive Events: Innovations in Behaviour, Opportunities for Lower Carbon Adaptations? Open
View article: ‘Business Code/Spaces’ in Digital Service Firms: The Case of Online Multinational Fashion Retailing
‘Business Code/Spaces’ in Digital Service Firms: The Case of Online Multinational Fashion Retailing Open
View article: Critical Essay: Inserting professionals and professional organizations in studies of wrongdoing : The nature, antecedents, and consequences of professional misconduct.
Critical Essay: Inserting professionals and professional organizations in studies of wrongdoing : The nature, antecedents, and consequences of professional misconduct. Open
Professional misconduct has become seemingly ubiquitous in recent decades. However, to date there has been little sustained effort to theorize the phenomenon of professional misconduct, how this relates to professional organizations, and h…
View article: Business Services and the Financing of Global Production Networks: The Case of Global Law Firms in Southeast Asia
Business Services and the Financing of Global Production Networks: The Case of Global Law Firms in Southeast Asia Open
Financial and business services (FABS) as intermediaries play a significant role in global production networks (GPNs). Yet the mechanisms through which they influence the activities of lead and supplier firms in GPNs have received little i…
View article: Professional Service Firms as Agents of Economic Globalization: A Political Perspective
Professional Service Firms as Agents of Economic Globalization: A Political Perspective Open
In recent decades, numerous professional service firms have gone ‘global’ in search of new markets and to support clients requiring services across nations. Whilst a lively debate has developed over the organizational implications of this …
View article: The Fearful and Anxious Professional: Partner Experiences of Working in the Financialised Professional Services Firm
The Fearful and Anxious Professional: Partner Experiences of Working in the Financialised Professional Services Firm Open
This work was supported by a PhD studentship provided to Scott Allan by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.
View article: Karl Polanyi on Strategy: The Effects of Culture, Morality and Double-Movements on Embedded Strategy
Karl Polanyi on Strategy: The Effects of Culture, Morality and Double-Movements on Embedded Strategy Open
Karl Polanyi is arguably one of the most significant economic sociologists. At first glance the links between Polanyi’s ideas about markets, society and institutions and strategy may not be obvious. However, there is a hereto unrecognised …
View article: Sustaining Economic Geography? Business/Management Schools and the UK’s Great Economic Geography Diaspora
Sustaining Economic Geography? Business/Management Schools and the UK’s Great Economic Geography Diaspora Open
View article: Professional Misconduct in Healthcare: Setting Out a Research Agenda for Work Sociology
Professional Misconduct in Healthcare: Setting Out a Research Agenda for Work Sociology Open
View article: Business services and the financing of global production networks: the case of global law firms in Southeast Asia
Business services and the financing of global production networks: the case of global law firms in Southeast Asia Open
Financial and business services (FABSs) as intermediaries play a significant role in global production networks (GPNs). Yet, the mechanisms through which they influence the activities of lead and supplier firms in GPNs have received little…
View article: Professional Misconduct in Healthcare: Setting Out a Research Agenda for Work Sociology
Professional Misconduct in Healthcare: Setting Out a Research Agenda for Work Sociology Open
In the light of its surprising absence in extant literature in the domain of the sociology of work, specifically within the journal Work, Employment and Society, this article represents a ‘call to arms’ for research focused upon profession…
View article: The Fearful and Anxious Professional: Partner Experiences of Working in the Financialized Professional Services Firm
The Fearful and Anxious Professional: Partner Experiences of Working in the Financialized Professional Services Firm Open
This article explores the work and career of law firm partners in the context of a financialized organizational regime, highlighting the effects of performance measures and metrics on the ways partners see themselves and their careers. The…
View article: Strategic Cities Within Global Urban Networks 1
Strategic Cities Within Global Urban Networks 1 Open
This chapter investigates the cities as strategic places in contemporary globalization using the methodology developed as world city network analysis. It explores different ways in which cities are being strategic, drawing on the literatur…
View article: How Market Standards Affect Building Design: The Case of Low Energy Design in Commercial Offices
How Market Standards Affect Building Design: The Case of Low Energy Design in Commercial Offices Open
This paper develops existing work on building design through a focus on one important yet understudied form of regulation: market standards. Market standards are agreed upon definitions of ‘necessary’ provision in buildings and are fundame…
View article: How market standards affect building design: The case of low energy design in commercial offices
How market standards affect building design: The case of low energy design in commercial offices Open
This paper develops existing work on building design through a focus on one important yet understudied form of regulation: market standards. Market standards are agreed upon definitions of ‘necessary’ provision in buildings and are fundame…
View article: Professional Education, Global Professional Service Firms and the Cultures of Professional Work in Europe, 2009
Professional Education, Global Professional Service Firms and the Cultures of Professional Work in Europe, 2009 Open
View article: Relational geographies of knowledge and innovation
Relational geographies of knowledge and innovation Open
This chapter examines the unique insights provided by the relational approach to knowledge and innovation developed by economic geographers. It shows how the focus in the approach on social interactions and their spatiality, and on a resea…
View article: Traces of a Mobile Field: Ten Years of Mobilities Research
Traces of a Mobile Field: Ten Years of Mobilities Research Open
Since the launch of this journal ten years ago, the field of mobilities research has developed at a rapid pace. In this editorial introduction we explore how this development has been curated, how the field has evolved, and what maturation…
View article: Bad barrels and bad cellars:a ‘boundaries’ perspective on professional misconduct
Bad barrels and bad cellars:a ‘boundaries’ perspective on professional misconduct Open
Professions have traditionally been associated with a public safeguard role, with their superior ethical standards usually invoked to justify their occupational privileges and special labour market position. As such professionals have been…