Personal branding has become an important concept in management literature in recent
years. Yet, with more than 100 scholarly papers published on the concept to date, it has …

Sociologists interested in professional work and occupations have differentiated
professionalism as a distinctive and special way of controlling and organizing work and …

Universities across the globe are giving increasing priority to the challenges of sustainability,
encouraged by a variety of drivers including international and national policy, student and …

In today's world, considerable time and effort is devoted to appearance, both for individuals
and organizations; the right look, an impressive title, a favourable connection. The focus is …

This review aims to redress the growing gap between the receding discourse on
bureaucracy and bureaucracy's continuing presence as the predominant organizational …

Institutional theory and structuration theory both contend that institutions and actions are
inextricably linked and that institutionalization is best understood as a dynamic, ongoing …

Objectification theory provides an important framework for understanding, researching, and
intervening to improve women's lives in a sociocultural context that sexually objectifies the …

I have spent a significant part of my working life over the last 25 years developing and
applying cultural perspectives on organizations. Despite considerable irritation with many …

In the last ten years, in both the UK and USA, the vocabulary for managing the employment
relationship has undergone a change.'Personnel management'has increasingly given way …

We begin in a rather conventional way by saying who we are, because where we come from
has shaped the evolution of this book in important ways. Our current roles, one working in …