Introduction: ProfessIonalIzatIon and event ManageMent

Towards corporate professionalization: The case of project management, management consultancy and executive search

The knowledge economy has been characterised by the proliferation of new forms of expert labour such as IT (Marks and Scholarios, 2007), advertising (Alvesson, 2004), and as discussed in this paper, project management (Hodgson and Muzio, 2010), management consultancy (Fincham, 2006; Kirkpatrick et al, 2011) and executive search (Faulconbridge et al., 2008). Many of these occupations would lay c...

Introduction to rare event simulation

This monograph deals with the analysis by simulation of ‘rare situations’ in systems of quite different types, that is, situations that happen very infrequently, but important enough to justify their study. A rare event is an event occurring with a very small probability, the definition of ‘small’ depending on the application domain. These events are of interest in many areas. Typical examples ...

Professionalization in healthcare chain

Background: Several elements influence the process of professionalization. The focus is on the process of professionalization in the healthcare chain. A special emphasis proportion was given to the field of nursing and its gradual transition to the profession. During the transition process endogenous and exogenous environment act as elements which should be identified. Methods: Data were analys...

Events and Event Talk An Introduction

We speak of actions and other events with the same easiness with which we speak of people and other objects. We say of John that he is bright and of Bill's lecture that it is boring. We say of John's father that he is taller than Bill's and of John's life that it is better than Bill's. We say of Clark Kent that he is Superman and of Clark Kent's death that it is the death of Superman. The perva...

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