Professional capital contested: A bourdieusian analysis of conflicts between professionals and managers

Comparative Sociology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-125

  Noordegraaf, Mirko ^a   Schinkel, Willem ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

managers; neo liberalism; Pierre Bourdieu; professionalism; professionalization

Indexed keywords

NEOLIBERALISM; SOCIAL THEORY; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 79952155710     PISSN: 15691322     EISSN: 15691330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156913310X514092     Document Type: Article

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