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Course |
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| Globalization and Professional Work (Cancelled) | ||
Faculty |
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Associate Professor Brooke Harrington Department of Business and Politics Copenhagen Business School Senior Lecturer Adam Hofri Faculty of Law Hebrew University of Jerusalem Daniel Muzio Professor of Professions and Organization Newcastle University School of Business |
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Course Coordinator |
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| Associate Professor Brooke Harrington | ||
Prerequisites |
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This course is for PhD students. It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that students attend the whole course. In addition, two weeks before the start of the course, students are required to submit a 5-page paper (approximately 2,500 words) describing the relevance of global professionals to their research projects. The text must apply and cite at least 10 of the texts listed in the “Course Literature” section on pages 4 through 8. The deadline for electronic submission of presentations (via email to the course coordinator) is 12 noon on 9 January 2017. Students will have the opportunity to revise their papers based on the group work planned for Day 2 of the course, and to present their ideas for additional feedback on Day 3. |
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Aim |
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| Globalization and professionals are more important than ever as objects of study in the social sciences. They represent core areas of knowledge in organization and management studies, but they also cross disciplinary boundaries. Increasingly, professional work is both a product of and a producer of globalization: this course examines the intersection of the two phenomena through multiple theoretical and methodological lenses. It provides research degree students with a grounding in two of the key areas in contemporary social scientific scholarship, providing students with valuable tools to enrich and expand their own work. | ||
Course content |
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This three-day course addresses three basic scholarly issues: 1) globalization; 2) the professions; and 3) the intersection of the two through the emerging phenomenon of trans-national professional work. Practical issues associated with research in these domains—such as choosing a methodology, navigating the publishing process, and securing research funding—will also be addressed. The class is designed to enhance PhD students’ intellectual and professional development by equipping them with state-of-the-art knowledge about two of the most important research areas in contemporary social science. The course will give participants the chance to apply new models and methods to their own work, as well as to engage in current scholarly debates with several of the leading researchers on professions and globalization. The course will develop students’ skills in critically evaluating and working with analytical tools to develop their research to its maximum potential. Participants will have several occasions to present their work and receive detailed feedback, both from faculty and other students; the goal is for each student to come out of the three-day course with significant new insights and improvements for their research projects. |
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Teaching style |
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| This seminar will combine lectures, student presentations, and interactive sessions between faculty and students. | ||
Lecture plan |
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Class will meet from 9am to 4pm each day, and cover the following topics. Class time will be composed of a combination of lectures, case studies, class discussions and student presentations. Day 1 Morning * Introductions--participants introduce themselves and give short (~10 minute presentations on their own research and its connection to the professions) * Key concepts and theoretical approaches in the literature on professions (lecture and discussion, led by all three faculty) [readings 2, 3, 5 and 20] Afternoon * Understanding and responding to the challenges of globalizations (lecture by Muzio) [readings 14, 15, 16 and 17] * Legal structures as bridges in trans-national professional work (lecture by Hofri) [readings 7, 8 and 9] Day 2 Morning * Case study: lawyers in the trans-national field—an institutionalist perspective (led by Muzio) [readings 1, 4, 18 and 19] * Case study: wealth management (led by Hofri) [readings 6, 11 and 13] Afternoon * Practical challenges in the study of trans-national professionals—access, methods, and funding (lecture and group work, led by Harrington) [readings 10 and 12] * Group work: identifying and addressing the obstacles facing students in their own research (facilitation and coaching of groups—led by all three faculty) Day 3 Morning * Seminar: publishing research on the professions (led by Muzio, with input from other faculty) * First part of student presentations on how their projects can be shaped by this class Afternoon * Second part of student presentations on how their projects can be shaped by this class * Summing up and future directions for research (lecture and discussion, led by Harrington) * outstanding questions that need to be addressed, opportunities for funding and research |
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Learning objectives |
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• Mastery of basic theoretical frameworks for understanding global professionals • Competence with both scholarly and managerial analysis • Ability to draw out implications of theories for researchers and practitioners • Integration and application of core perspectives to empirical cases • Skills to create new knowledge of global professionals |
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Exam |
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Start date |
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| 23/01/2017 | ||
End date |
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| 25/01/2017 | ||
Level |
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| PhD | ||
ECTS |
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| 3 | ||
Language |
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| English | ||
Course Literature |
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| The following texts are required. Book chapters will be provided by the course faculty; it will be the students' responsibility to obtain the journal articles. All texts should be read prior to the start of the course. The readings that are particularly relevant to each section of the course have been noted by number above. 1. Arnold, P. 2005. Disciplining domestic regulation: The World Trade Organization and the market for professional services. Accounting, Organization and Society 30: 299-330.This article looks at professionals as active agents in building global markets.2. Boussebaa, M. and G. Morgan. 2015. Internationalization of Professional Service Firms: Drivers, Forms and Outcomes in Empson et al (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms (OUP: Oxford).This chapter offers an overview of key debates in the field concerning professional service firms. 3. Djelic, M. and S. Quack. 2008. Institutions and Transnationalization in Greenwood et al. (eds) The Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (Sage: London).This chapter provides an overall assessment of institutionalist approaches to the phenomenon of globalization. 4. Faulconbridge, J. and Muzio D. 2016. Global professional service firms and the challenge of institutional complexity: 'field relocation' as a response strategy. Journal of Management Studies 53: 89-124.This article draws on the framework articulated by Oliver (1992) to illustrate responses of professional service firms and multi-nationals to institutional pressures. 5. Faulconbridge J. and Muzio D. 2012. The re-scaling of the professions: towards a transnational sociology of the professions’ International Sociology 27: 109-125.This article assesses the state of the art in research on professions in trans-national settings.6. Freyer, T. and Morriss, A. 2014. Creating Cayman as an Offshore Financial Center: Structure and Strategy since 1960. Arizona State Law Journal, 45:1297-1398.The article describes the emergence and development of one of the world's premier offshore financial centers, the Cayman Islands. The authors describe how professionals collaborated with politicians in creating, stabilizing and maintaining the Islands' financial services sector.7. GN Treuhand, The Various Forms of Companies in Liechtenstein.A short, marketing-oriented description of the legal structures available under the law of Liechtenstein. 8. Goodwin, I. 2010. How the Rich Stay Rich: Using a Family Trust Company to Secure a Family Fortune. Seton Hall Law Review, 40: 467-516.The article reviews a range of legal structures currently used by wealth planning professionals to manage and preserve the fortunes of wealthy families. 9. Hansmann, H. and Mattei, U. 1998. The Functions of Trust Law: a Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis. New York University Law Review 73:434. Only read the comparison between two key legal structures used by transnational professionals–the trust and the corporation–on pages 472-478.10. Harrington, B. 2016. Introduction. Pp. 1-35 in Capital without Borders: Wealth Management and the One Percent. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.This book chapter introduces an 8-year study of a transnational professional group, with a detailed discussion of the challenges attendant upon gathering data across multiple sites worldwide.11. Harrington, B. 2015. Going Global: Professionals and the Microfoundations of Institutional Change. Journal of Professions and Organization, 2: 1-19.This article traces the impact of wealth managers on institutional change in multiple realms, including policy and practice.12. Harrington, B. 2015. Immersion Ethnography of Elites. Pp. 134-142 in Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research, Kimberly Elsbach and Roderick Kramer (Eds.). Routledge.This chapter reviews the opportunities and challenges linked to studying trans-national professionals. 13. Hofri-Winogradow, A. 2014. Professionals' Contribution to the Legislative Process: between Self, Client and the Public. Law & Social Inquiry 39: 96-126.The article describes and theorizes the contribution wealth management professionals made to a legislative amendment plugging a major loophole in Israeli tax law. I attempt to identify the preconditions necessary for professionals to act contrary to their clients' interests.14. Kostova T. and Roth K. 2002. Adoption of an organizational practice by subsidiaries of multinational corporations: institutional and relational effects. Academy of Management Journal, 45: 215-233.This seminal article applies an institutional analysis to globalization and multi-national corporations, aimed at helping us understanding how institutions can disrupt internationalization processes. Pay particular attention here to the concepts of institutional duality and institutional distance.15. Muzio, D. and Faulconbridge, J. 2013. The global professional service firm: ‘one firm’ models versus Italian distant institutionalised practices. Organization Studies, 34: 897-925.This article is a direct application of the frameworks developed by two other readings on this list—Scott (2008; 2014) and Kostova and Roth (2002)—to professional services firms. Unlike Kostova and Roth (2002), this paper develops a qualitative approach to duality which highlights the institutional tensions and conflicts generated by globalization. 16. Oliver C. 1991 ‘Strategic responses to institutional processes’ Academy of Management Review, 16: 145-179.This article discusses how organziations, including multi-nationals, manage institutional pressures. Her framework still inspires contemporary litterature in the area. 17. Scott, W.R. 2008. Lords of the dance: Professionals as institutional agents. Organization Studies, 29: 219-238.This article provides a good overview of key institutional concepts and how they apply to professional occupations and organziations. It represents an attempt to develop an institutionalist perspective on how professional service firms globalize, the challenges they are likely to encounter, and how these can be addressed. 18. Seabrooke, L. 2014. Epistemic Arbitrage: Transnational Professional Knowledge in Action. Journal of Professions and Organization, 1: 49-64.This article examines how professionals exercise agency in creating trans-national governance regimes. 19. Smets, M, Morris, T. and Greenwood, R. 2012. From practice to field: A multilevel model of practice-driven institutional change. Academy of Management Journal, 55: 877-904.This paper draws on the framework set out by Oliver (1992) to explore how professional service firms and multi-nationals respond to duality. 20. Suddaby, R., Cooper, D., and Greenwood, R. 2007. Transnational Regulation of Professional Services: Governance Dynamics of Field Level Organizational Change. Accounting Organizations & Society, 32: 333-362.This article focuses on professional service firms as agents in the creation of global markets. | ||
Fee |
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| DKK 3,900 (covers the course, coffee/tea, lunch and one dinner) | ||
Minimum number of participants |
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| 13 | ||
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Maximum number of participants |
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| 18 | ||
Location |
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Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 18 B 2000 Frederiksberg Room: S.023 |
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Contact information |
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The PhD Support Katja Høeg Tingleff Tel.: +45 38 15 28 39 E-mail: kht.research@cbs.dk |
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Registration deadline |
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| 12/12/2016 | ||
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Please note that your registration is binding after the registration deadline.
In case we receive more registrations for the course than we have places, the registrations will be prioritized in the following order: Students from Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies (OMS), students from other CBS PhD schools, students from other institutions than CBS. |
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