Adamson, M and Manson, S and Zakaria, I (2014) Executive remuneration consultancy in the UK: exploring a professional project through the lens of institutional work. Journal of Professions and Organization, 2 (1). pp. 19-37. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jou007
Adamson, M and Manson, S and Zakaria, I (2014) Executive remuneration consultancy in the UK: exploring a professional project through the lens of institutional work. Journal of Professions and Organization, 2 (1). pp. 19-37. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jou007
Adamson, M and Manson, S and Zakaria, I (2014) Executive remuneration consultancy in the UK: exploring a professional project through the lens of institutional work. Journal of Professions and Organization, 2 (1). pp. 19-37. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jou007
Abstract
This article responds to recent calls to examine the development of professionalism through the lens of institutional theory. We investigate the development of the new professional service of executive remuneration consultancy (ERC) in the UK through the lens of institutional work. Specifically, drawing upon Lawrence and Suddaby (2006) and Suddaby and Viale (2011), we explore the relationship between macro-scale occupational/organizational and micro-scale individual-level dynamics of the ERC professional project and situate its development in relation to the broader field of executive remuneration practices. We show that the institutional work of creating the new professional project is contested and that the ERC development may be better understood as part of broader efforts to create and maintain the institution of executive pay-setting practices. We argue that the institutional work lens has the potential to produce a more nuanced understanding of the internal dynamics of the ERC professionalization process and its role in reconfiguring broader institutional arrangements. By exploring the analytical purchase of the concept of institutional work, the article contributes to the emerging body of empirical evidence outlining the potential of (neo-) institutional approaches to offer a more productive understanding of contemporary professionalism.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | professional project institutional work executive remuneration consultants professionalization emerging professions neo-institutional theory |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2014 10:03 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 23:48 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/11715 |