Professional Identities : : Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy /

Professional Identities : : Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy / / ed. by Shirley Ardener, Fiona Moore.

In both professional and academic fields, there is increasing interest in the way in which white-collar workers engage with institutions and networks which are complex social constructions. Covering a wide variety of countries and types of organization, this volume examines the diverse ways in which...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Abram, Simone,
Ardener, Shirley,
Callan, Hilary,
Coles, Anne,
Groeneveld, Margaret,
Herzog, Esther,
Moore, Fiona,
Whitfield, Lindsay,
HerausgeberIn:
Ardener, Shirley,
Moore, Fiona,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Social Identities ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: bridging businesses and bureaucracies
  • 1. Matters of the heart: the business of English Rugby League
  • 2. When worlds collide: British bureaucracy meets German bureaucracy in the global financescape
  • 3. Image and reality in an Israeli ‘Absorption Centre’ for Ethiopian immigrants
  • 4. Loyalty and politics: the discourses of liberalisation
  • 5. Identities under construction: the case of international education
  • 6. Portrait of an aid donor: a profile of DFID
  • 7. Identity construction in development practices: the government of Ghana, civil society, private sector and development partners
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index

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