Just over two decades ago, in a Perspective article in the Journal of Product Innovation
Management (JPIM), Tomkovick and Miller, called for the professionalization of new product …

Purpose This paper aims to provide insights into the role of project management
associations for the projectification of society from an institutional theory perspective …

HRM has long claimed professional status. The global prevalence of national‐level people
management associations (PMA) supports this claim. Aside from prescribing practices …

This essay begins with a contribution from Mirko Noordegraaf, author of the 2020 'From
Protective to Connective Professionalism'article that initiated this series of exchanges in the …

Below we provide responses to the ongoing debate sparked by Mirko Noordegraaf's
intervention in suggesting that we are moving toward forms of 'connective professionalism' …

In this paper, we explore the effects of emerging digital technologies on professionalization
within organizations. Specifically, we examine how the emergence of data analytics as a …

This article applies institutional theory to analyse the state and direction of human resource
management as an occupation. Using Japan as a case study, we apply a framework by …

The rise of corporate professions reignites a longstanding sociological debate concerning
the structure of intra-professional relations within purportedly collegiate entities. However …

Growth in the internationalization of economic activity has favoured an increase in
institutional control at a supranational level. A typical example of such institutions that wield …

Purpose Project studies analyse either managing practices or the temporal nature of project
management, which leaves open a research gap: the temporality of managing practice. The …