The Management of Expertise (Management, Work and Organisations) - Hardcover

Harry Scarbrough

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333568699 ISBN 13: 9780333568699

Publisher: Macmillan Business, 1995

Synopsis

The spread of information technology and the globalisation of market forces have a paradoxical effect on knowledge-work and expertise. The expert groups who embody these competences are increasingly vital to competitiveness and innovation. Yet, for that very reason, they have also become a critical target of management discipline and control. With the traditional ivory-tower habitats of professionalism under attack, the battle-lines between managers and expert groups stretch across a wide swathe of the public and private sectors of the economy. This book addresses this clashing of business and professional values, and also the underlying shifts in knowledge-production which have made expertise, not professionalism, the defining problem and solution of the current era.

About this title

About the Author

HARRY SCARBROUGH is a Lecturer in Industrial Relations at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He has written and researched extensively on the organisation implications of IT, including two co-authored books. His current interests are focused on the management of so-called 'knowledge-assets' in organisation contexts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Business
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333568699
• ISBN 13: 9780333568699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256