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Standing Working Group 3 – Sub-theme 03:

Professional Service Organizations and Knowledge-Intensive Work

 

Convenors:

Céleste P.M. Wilderom
University of Twente (The Netherlands)
c.p.m.wilderom@utwente.nl

Huseyin Leblebici
University of Illinois, Champaign (USA)
hleblebi@uiuc.edu

 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Organizing PSF – The Professionals, the Clients, and the Firm

Laura Empson, Joseph P. Broschak and Huseyin Leblebici
Beyond received wisdom: An integrative perspective on organizing professionals

Robin Fincham
Expert labour, occupational ascendancy and identity: A comparative critique

Flore Bridoux, Régis Coeurderoy and Rodolphe Durand
Heterogeneous motivational drivers of knowledge generation and deployment: Implications for the design of knowledge-intensive firms
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Client Relations and Competitive Advantage

Natalia Nikolova and Timothy Devinney
The nature and role of power in client-consultant relationships: An empirical study

Blair Winsor
Making up time: Innovation and time in consultancy practice

Katrin Bähring
Intermediaries in the field of interim management and their capacity to build sustainable competitive advantages
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Challenges of Managing the Professionals

Rosalia Cascón-Pereira, Mireia Valverde and María-Tatiana Gorjup
Wearing two hats: The difficulties of managing at mid-level in hospitals

Mary Keating and Aoife McDermott
The strategic management of professionals: The void (in the?) role of HRM

A. H.J. Klopper, S. Siesling, N. Meerdink, C.P.M. Wilderom and W.H. van Harten
Professional culture gaps and stereotypical images between physicians and managers in Dutch hospitals
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Mergers in PSFs – Causes and Consequences

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Sebastian Kinne and David Grant
Professional service firm mergers: A systemic discursive perspective

Samia Chreim
Integration and dis-integration of acquired professional services firms

Megan S. McDougald
To be or not to be one: Issues of professional identity within a segmented profession

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Parallel Stream B: Learning and Creativity in PSFs

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Tiina Tuominen
Change and innovation activities in professional service organizations: Privileged, obliged, or ignored employees?

Philip Runsten, Svante Schriber and Andreas Werr
Integrating competencies in professional work – A study of collective learning behavior in professional work groups

Juani Swart and Nick Kinnie
Cross-boundary learning in professional services firms: Client influences on ambidexterity

 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Leadership and Identity in Professional Settings

Lucia Crevani, Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff
Leadership as a collective construction: Re-conceptualizing leadership in knowledge-intensive firms

Katleen de Stobbeleir, Susan J. Ashford and Dirk Buyens
The knowledge worker in his social labyrinth: The mediating role of goals and group norms in linking empowering leadership to feedback-seeking behaviour

Fabiola Bertolotti, Janet M. Dukerich, Diego Maria Macrì and Elisa Mattarelli
The influence of multiple work identities on global R&D teams effectiveness
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Innovation Processes in PSFs

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Henning Droege and Elena Bou
The exploration & exploitation dilemma revisited: How does it apply to innovation in professional service firms?

Antti Ainamo
Service development in professional knowledge work: A comparative study of six consultancies

Abdessamad Ennabih, Allard C.R. van Riel and Zuzana Sasovova
Knowledge sharing between new service development teams: The roles of organizational and project climate

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Parallel Stream B: New Insights on the Organization of PSFs

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Mehdi Boussebaa
Micro-politics of global organizing within professional service firms

Gregorio Perez Arrau and Elaine Eades
The managing of knowledge workers in the context of developing countries: The case of the Chilean oenologists

Johan Alvehus
Master and servant? On the division of labour in professional service firms

Frank Mueller, Martin Kornberger, Chris Carter and Anne Ross-Smith
The rules of performance: 'Playing the Game' in a big four accounting firms
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Introduction of New Professional Services and Professions

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Dorothea Alewell, Katrin Bähring and Sven Hauff
Expected effects of using the services of professional HR organizations: An empirical analysis of HR-outsourcing-decisions in German firms

Heather Elms, Rodney Lacey and Robert A. Phillips
Professionals vs. profiteers: Legitimacy and private security contractors

Cláudio Reis Gonçalo and Maria de Lourdes Borges
Knowledge strategies in health services: An analytic framework to promote adhesion management to the treatment of chronical heart disease

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Parallel Stream B: Motivation, Conflict and Change in Professional Settings

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Anders Rosdahl
Performance related pay for social workers in Danish local employment administration

Martin Fransson
Process mapping at the Swedish employment service: On cognitive organization by self-assessment

Alberto Francesconi, Gabriele Cioccarelli and Claudia Dossena
Dangerous liaisons: Professionals versus managers and IT related changes – The case of healthcare organizations

 

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