The Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms
Edited by Laura Empson, Daniel Muzio, Joseph Broschak, and Bob Hinings
Author Information
Edited by Laura Empson, Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms and Director of the Cass Centre for Professional Service Firms, Cass Business School, London, Daniel Muzio, Professor of Professions and Organization, Newcastle University, Joseph Broschak, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Arizona, and Bob Hinings, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Business, University of Alberta
Laura Empson is Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Cass Business School, London, and Director of the Cass Centre for Professional Service Firms. Her current research focuses on leadership dynamics in PSFs and is funded by a major grant from the ESRC. Her previous ESRC-funded study was of changing forms of governance in PSFs. Her research into PSFs has also covered themes such as: mergers and acquisitions, professionalisation of management, organizational and individual identity, knowledge and diversity management. She is also an Independent Non-Executive of KPMG LLP. In 2013 she was selected to be the Financial Times Professor of the Week.
Joe Broschak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Organizations and the Interim Executive Director of the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona, Eller College of Management. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Sociology. He has a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Texas at Austin. Joe's research revolves around two topics in organization theory. One is the structure of organizations and the other is the dynamics of markets. Joe's research has been published in a variety of management and sociology journals and he currently serves on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and the Academy of Management Journal.
Bob Hinings has carried out research on professional organizations, health care organizations and the wine industry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the U.S. Academy of Management and an Honorary Member of the European Group for Organizational Studies. He has received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the U.S. Academy of Management and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Montreal. He is a Research Fellow at the Judge School of Business, University of Cambridge.
Daniel Muzio is Professor of Professions and Organization at Newcastle University. Before joining Newcastle University in 2013, Daniel held a Chair in Leadership and Organization in Manchester Business School. Previously he held academic positions at the Univeristy of Leeds and Lancaster University where he completed his ESRC funded PhD (and Post Doc) in Management in 2004. Daniel holds a law degree and an MA in Organizational Analysis and Behaviour, both from Lancaster University. Daniel holds visiting positions at Manchester Business School and Cass Business School, City Univeristy in London. He has also been a visiting professor at Luiss Guido Carli in Rome and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati, Spain.His research focuses on professions and knowledge workers, their work, management and organization. This is informed by a number of theoretical perspectives including: institutional theory, labour process theory, and neo-weberian perspectives.
Contributors:
Mats Alvesson, Professor of Business Administration, University of Lund
Louise Ashley, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, University of London
Michael Barrett, Professor of Information Systems and Innovation Studies, Cambridge University
Mehdi Boussebaa, Associate Professor of Organization Studies, University of Bath
Joseph P. Broschak, Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Laurie Cohen, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Nottingham University
Ronit Dinovitzer, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
Laura Empson, Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms, City University London
James Faulconbridge, Professor of Transnational Management, Lancaster University
Heidi K. Gardner, Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Law School
Sally Gunz, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Toronto
Hugh Gunz, Professor of Business Law and Professional Ethics, University of Waterloo
Nina Katrin Hansen, Assistant Professor, University of Hamburg
William S. Harvey, Research Director and Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
Bob Hinings, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta
Dan Kärreman, Professor in Management and Organization Studies, Copenhagen Business School
Nicholas Kinnie, Chair of Human Resource Management, University of Bath
Ian Kirkpatrick, Professor in Work and Organisation, Leeds University Business School
Ann Langley, Professor of Management, HEC Montréal
Huseyin Leblebici, Merle H. and Virginia Downs Boren Professor of Business Administration at the University of Illinois
Namrata Malhotra, Associate Professor in Strategy, Imperial College Business School
John Mawdsley, doctoral student in Strategy & Entrepreneurship, University of Illinois
Vincent-Wayne Mitchell, Sir John E Cohen Professor Consumer of Marketing, City University London Glenn Morgan, Professor of International Management, Cardiff Business School
Timothy Morris, Professor of Management Studies, University of Oxford
Daniel Muzio, Professor of Professions and Organization, University of Newcastle
Mirko Noordegraaf, Professor of Public Management, Utrecht University
Andrew von Nordenflycht, Associate Professor of Strategy at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business
Sigrid Quack, Professor of Comparative and Transnational Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Markus Reihlen, Vice-President and the Otto Group Professor of Strategic Management, University of Lüneburg
Mari Sako, Professor of Management Studies, University of Oxford
Elke Schüßler, Assistant Professor of Organization Theory, Freie Universität Berlin
Peter D. Sherer, Associate Professor, University of Calgary
Deepak Somaya, Steven and Christy King Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of Illinois
Hilary Sommerlad, Professor of Law and Research Director, University of Birmingham
Roy Suddaby, Winspear Professor of Management, University of Victoria
Kate Sullivan, Lecturer in the Department of Business Administration, Lund University
Juani Swart, Professor in Human Capital Management, University of Bath
Andreas Werr, Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and Head of the Center for HRM and knowledge work, SSE Institute for Research
