This article reviews scholarship dealing with the notion of “boundary work,” defined as
purposeful individual and collective effort to influence the social, symbolic, material, or …

How do contract professionals seek to control their working time? Here, the authors identify
boundary work strategies through which contractors—both shift workers and project workers …

As a worldwide social movement, skepticism aims to promote science and critical thinking.
However, by analyzing texts published in the magazine of the Finnish skepticism movement …

How organizations engage with gender equality is crucial to them being perceived as fair
and attractive employers. As recruitment and training of personnel is a core function of the …

The article explores the establishment of gendering divides in organisations by bridging
Hernes'(2004) typologies of physical, social and mental boundary work with notions on the …

Purpose This article explores the analytical gains of what we refer to as “awkward
ethnography.” How might our understanding of organizational phenomena benefit from …

The Australian accounting environment is dominated by two competing brands–Chartered
Accountant (CA) and Certified Practising Accountant (CPA)–which signal that the profession …

Western military organizations face an increasingly complex landscape of threats and
challenges from immense changes in the international security situation. At the same time …

This book examines the four unsuccessful attempts to merge the two major professional
accounting bodies in Australia from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. This chapter provides …

This chapter examines the second merger attempt, which the Institute and the Society
mounted in the early 1970s, having released the first draft proposal in 1976. After the failure …