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Spence, Crawford, Carter, Chris, Belal, Ataur Rahman, Husillos, Javier, Dambrin, Claire and Archel, Pablo (2016) Tracking habitus across a transnational professional field. Work, Employment & Society, 30 (1). pp. 3-20. doi:10.1177/0950017015574824 ISSN 0950-0170.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017015574824
Abstract
The sociology of the professions has shied away from cross-national comparative work. Yet research in different professional jurisdictions emphasizes the transnational nature of professional fields. Further work is therefore needed that explores the extent to which transnational professional fields are characterized by unity or heterogeneity. To that end, this article presents the results of a qualitative interrogation of the habitus of partners in ‘Big 4’ professional service firms across, primarily, five countries (Bangladesh, Canada, France, Spain and the UK). Marked differences are observed between the partner habitus in Bangladesh and the other countries studied in terms of entrepreneurial and public service dispositions. In turn, these findings highlight the methodological relevance of habitus for both the sociology of the professions and comparative capitalism literatures: for the former, habitus aids in mapping the dynamics of transnational professional fields; for the latter, habitus can elucidate the informal norms and conventions of national business systems.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Service industries, Sociology, Capitalism | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Work, Employment & Society | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0950-0170 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 February 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 30 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 3-20 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0950017015574824 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 December 2015 | ||||||||
Funder: | Spain. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad [Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness] (MINECO) | ||||||||
Grant number: | ECO2012-33121 |
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