Restructuring the Professional Organization

Accounting, Health Care and Law

David Brock, C. R. Hinings, Michael Powell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134651948
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

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 these changes through an examination of the archetypes which characterize accounting, health care and law practitioners. With examples drawn from Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA, Restructuring the Professional Organization will be of interest to all students of organization studies seeking to understand the issues and problems confronting the professions as they move to the new millennium.
Topics covered include:
* a review of the models of professional organization
*drivers of change in professional organizations
* internal dynamics of changes in these organizations
* new organizational forms and archetypes.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of contributors
• Preface and acknowledgements
• 1 The changing professional organization
• 2 Internationalization of professional services: implications for accounting firms
• 3 Global clients' demands driving change in global business advisory firms
• 4 Institutional effects on organizational governance and conformity: the case of the Kaiser Permanente and the United States health care field
• 5 Restructuring law firms: reflexivity and emerging forms
• 6 The struggle to redefine boundaries in health care systems
• 7 The dynamics of change in large accounting firms
• 8 Professionals organizing professionals: comparing the logic of United States and United Kingdom law practice
• 9 ‘All fur coat and no knickers’: contemporary organizational change in United Kingdom hospitals
• 10 Continuity and change in professional organizations: evidence from British law firms
• 11 The restructured professional organization: corporates, cobwebs and cowboys
• References
• Index