Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

12-2007

Abstract

In the professional services, diversification into various types of business advice has implications for knowledge boundaries. This is a sector of changing jurisdictional patterns and periodic reconstruction. Firms like large law practices that feed services into corporate clients have been merging to provide global coverage (Suddaby and Greenwood, 2001; Suddaby et al., 2004). But new specialisms in areas like consulting and IT are even more dynamic. Patterns such as the growth in outsourcing and movement into management consulting accounted for stupendous growth of the global accounting firms. These changes have themselves been overtaken, as the IT and systems giants muscled into audit and consulting interests. Leading systems firms have taken over and merged with existing clusters of skills in a process seen by some as a historic wave in the evolution of the sector (Kipping, 2002; Kirkpatrick and Kipping, 2005).

Discipline

Organizational Behavior and Theory | Organizational Communication

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

Redirections in the study of expert labour

Editor

D. Muzio, S. Ackroyd, & J.-F. Chanlat

First Page

183

Last Page

203

ISBN

9780230592827

Identifier

10.1057/9780230592827_9

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

City or Country

New York

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592827_9

Download

Share

COinS