Professionalizing corporate professions: Professionalization as identity project

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...

Corporate identity, corporate branding and corporate marketing

Abstract Outlines 15 explanations for the fog which has enveloped the nascent domains of corporate identity and corporate marketing. However, the fog surrounding the area has a silver lining. This is because the fog has, unwittingly, led to the emergence of rich disciplinary, philosophical as well as `̀ national’’, schools of thought. In their composite, these approaches have the potential to fo...

The Corporate Secret Identity

Professionalizing the Postdoctoral Experience

The first postdoctoral association was launched in the United States 13 years ago. Although postdoctoral associations have made tremendous progress toward improving the lives of postdoctoral fellows, their job is not finished yet.

Professionalizing Second' Language Teaching

Growing migration and mobility have led to an increased demand for linguistic research over the past few decades, initiating the rapid growth of most subdisci' plines in the field, especially sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics. There is particularly intense research activity in the interdiscipline of second language acquisition, which occupies a position at the crossroads of li...