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D: Professions and Professionals in a Globalizing World

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James Faulconbridge is Professor of Transnational Management in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University Management School, UK. His research focuses upon the way processes of globalization and financialization have transformed the professions and professional service firms, as well as the way knowledge and practice move internationally within and between professional organizations. James has published widely in journals including Environment and Planning A, The Journal of Economic Geography, Economic Geography, Organization Studies and Work, Employment and Society. He has co-authored the book The Globalization of Advertising (Routledge) and edited the book International Business Travel in the Global Economy (Ashgate).

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Elizabeth Gorman is associate professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Her research has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Work and Occupations, Gender and Society, Law and Society Review, Journal of Professions and Organization, Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, and Journal of Marriage and the Family. She has also published chapters in several edited volumes and annuals, including Annual Review of Law and Social Science, and co-edited a special issue of Work and Occupations on “Transformations in Professional and Expert Work: Broadening Horizons and Bridging Divides.”

Professor Gorman holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels on work, professions, workplace gender and racial inequality, organizations, and quantitative methods.

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Sigrid Quack is Professor of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her work concentrates on transnational institution building, organizing, and mobilization, including a strong focus on contemporary professional transformations. She is particularly interested in the role of professionals and professional organizations in transnational and global governance, as well as in the role of professions in developing countries. Prior to joining the University of Duisburg-Essen, Sigrid was a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, where she remains affiliated as an associated researcher. Before that, she was senior researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Research Center. Sigrid is a longstanding SASE member. She has also served as Chairperson of the European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) and has been a Council Member of the Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Her publications include Transnational communities: Shaping Global Economic Governance (co-edited with Marie-Laure Djelic, CUP, 2010), Framing Standards, Mobilizing Users: Copyright versus Fair Use in Transnational Regulation (co-authored with Leonhard Dobusch, RIPE, 2012), Recombining National Variety: Internationalization Strategies of American and European Law Firms (Journal of Strategy and Management, 2012), and Legal Professionals and Transnational Lawmaking: A Case of Distributed Agency (Organization 2007).

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Leonard Seabrooke is Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, and the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick. His book publications comprise US Power in International Finance (Palgrave, 2001), The Social Sources of Financial Power (Cornell UP, 2006), Global Standards of Market Civilization (co-edited with Brett Bowden, Routledge/RIPE, 2006), Everyday Politics of the World Economy (co-edited with John M. Hobson, Cambridge UP, 2007), The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts (co-edited with Herman Schwartz, Palgrave 2009), and Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness (co-edited with Susana Borrás, Oxford UP, forthcoming). Len Seabrooke is Principal Investigator of the ‘Professions in International Political Economies’ (PIPES) Project, funded by the European Research Council, and Principal Investigator of the ‘European Actor-Networks in a Multi-Polar World: Stocktaking and Theory’ work package in the ‘Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks’ (GR:EEN) project funded by the European Commission’s FP7 programme. He is currently working on a book titled Epistemic Arbitrage: Professional Emergence in Transnational Governance.

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