The knowledge economy and the restructuring of employment
The Case of Consultants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2373323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rory Donnelly (0000-0001-8424-2039, Birmingham Business School,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 323-341 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0950017009102861 |
| OpenAlex | W2024617642 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 25 |
Knowledge workers are said to be the vanguard of a new era in work and employment, with some even claiming that these workers have been freed from the constraints of organizational employment (Pink, 2001; Reed, 1996). However, many knowledge workers operate as employees and emerging research suggests that the interplay between these workers and organizations generates strong competing tensions. This article proposes that these conflicts lead to a hybridization of the employment relationship.The findings from this case study of a large consultancy firm suggest that these tensions along with organizational context, the form of knowledge work, the seniority of the individual and the level and nature of client influence play an important role in shaping the degree and balance of this hybridization in contemporary bureaucracies
Balance (ability · Bureaucracy · Business · Context (archaeology · Economics · Knowledge worker · Labour economics · Political science · Public relations · Restructuring · Seniority · Vanguard · Work (physics · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Law · Psychology
Managers as consultants
Is ‘co’ in coworking a short for contradictions
Consultants as Knowledge Brokers
Setting the Scene
Decoding the networking strategies of Asian and Black workers in the London Insurance Market
Les jeunes consultants en management entre précarité et ambition
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting
Why Do Humans Remain Central to the Knowledge Work in the Age of Robots? Marx's Fragment on Machines and Beyond
Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms
Beyond Employment
Expert Power and Control in Late Modernity
Going Public
The Meaning of Work in the New Economy
On the Front Line
Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies
The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society
Post-Industrial Society
Knowledge workers
Mapping knowledge in work
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Assumptions, Assertions and the Need for Evidence
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |