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A lengthy, detailed article reviewing legal and tax problems of professional corporations has been withdrawn from this issue of California Medicine. Instead, we are presenting a status report which is simply another chapter in a continuing saga.

This handbook discusses firms providing services in the traditional professions such as law, accounting, and architecture, as well as newer sectors such as management consulting, advertising, and engineering. It provides a critical overview of contemporary research on the professional service firm sector, and suggests avenues of future inquiry

Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of business and public health to illustrate how each side can inform and benefit the other. Through contemporary examples from a variety of industries and geographies, this collection provides students with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping both health and corporate outcomes

The Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms discusses firms providing services in the traditional professions such as law, accounting, and architecture as well as newer sectors such as, management consulting, advertising, and engineering. It provides a critical overview of contemporary research on PSFs, and suggests avenues of future inquiry.

This handbook discusses firms providing services in the traditional professions such as law, accounting, and architecture, as well as newer sectors such as management consulting, advertising, and engineering. It provides a critical overview of contemporary research on the professional service firm sector, and suggests avenues of future inquiry.

Two types of formal organizations, the multinational corporation and the international professional association, cross the boundaries not only of nation-states but also of several disciplines, viz., sociology, international business, and international relations. Notwithstanding their rapid rate of growth in the past two decades and their role as mechanisms of change in the international system, these organizations have been largely ignored by social scientists studying organizations and international relations.

Introduction / Royston Greenwood, Roy Suddaby, Megan McDougald -- Leading change in the new professional service firm : characterizing strategic leadership in a global context / Evelyn Fenton, Andrew Pettigrew -- Partnership versus corporation : implications of alternative forms of governance in professional service firms / Laura Empson, Chris Chapman -- Markets, institutions, and the crisis of professional practice / Kevin T. Leicht, Elizabeth C.W. Lyman -- Variation in organizational form among professional service organizations / Namrata Malhotra, Timothy Morris, C.R. (Bob) Hinings -- Professional service firms as collectivities : a cultural and processual view / Mats Alvesson, Dan K(c)·arreman -- Professionals, networking and the networked professional / Fiona Anderson-Gough, Christopher Grey, Keith Robson -- Professional ethics in formal organizations / Hugh P. Gunz, Sally P. Gunz -- Can women in law have it all? : a study of motherhood, career satisfaction and life balance / Jean E. Wallace -- Computer-mediated knowledge systems in consultancy firms : do they work? / Markus Reihlen, Torsten Ringberg -- Marketing marketing : the professional project as a micro-discursive accomplishment / Peter Svensson -- Social structure, employee mobility, and the circulation of client ties / Joseph P. Broschak, Keri M. Niehans -- The internationalisation of professional service firms : global convergence, national path-dependency or cross-border hybridisation? / Glenn Morgan, Sigrid Quack -- The strategic positioning of professional service firm start-ups : balance beguiles but purism pays / Jennifer E. Jennings, P. Devereaux Jennings, Royston Greenwood -- Are consultants moving towards professionalization? / Claudia Gro, Alfred Kieser

A growing social enterprise movement has led companies to increasingly opt into the benefit corporation form, and those companies are hiring lawyers. Benefit corporations challenge the notion that corporate law's primary focus is on furthering shareholder interests. While many have written about the benefit corporation with respect to corporate fiduciary law, this Article is the first to explore the form's ethical implications for lawyers. Ethical obligations necessarily reflect substantive law governing client organizations; changes to the corporate form presented by benefit corporation legislation should reverberate in legal ethics. The legal profession, however, has not addressed how to lawyer to a for-profit company that also seeks to create a public benefit in nearly a century. By incorporating as a benefit corporation, a client's attorney must show fidelity to the changes found in benefit corporation legislation. This requires that attorneys representing benefit corporations adopt a new framework through which they define their ethical obligations. In developing an ethical framework for attorneys representing benefit corporations, historical rules and norms around corporate representation and contemporary frameworks for nonprofit and government lawyers are particularly instructive. Of particular concern is benefit corporation clients engaging in greenwashing, or purporting but failing to further a mission or social benefit. Ethical rules require reinterpretation to aid lawyers in navigating situations involving greenwashing clients under this new framework. Lawyers for benefit corporations should weigh confidentiality against their client's stated purpose differently than do their colleagues representing traditional corporations. This will necessarily result in weaker confidentiality obligations for lawyers who identify clients engaging in greenwashing or otherwise failing to abide by the procedures and objectives of benefit corporation legislation. These lawyers should also broaden the scope of their advice to include counseling clients on the effects of corporation activity on nonshareholder stakeholders.

Referring to a set of narrative interviews being professional biographical interviews with managers and professionals, I would like to present some definite typically patterned professional careers. The course and main phases of the settling into corporate order are identified and described with Fritz Schütze's analytical tools and categories. The main focus of interest is not only biographical processes of growing-up in corporation, that is the sphere of cognitive, normative and emotional references, but also their relation to the institutional sphere. Simultaneously, I intend therefore to address two types of questions: what type of biographical experiences are we dealing with: biographical plan (an autonomous, self-reflexive and intentional process of planning one's own actions), institutional pattern (a normative-based process of meeting institutional expectations), trajectory (a suffering-involved process of uncontrollably being subject to external circumstances), metamorphosis (a surprise-driven creative process of change); and what are the ways a biography reflects corporate order, that is, some definite type of the social order in late capitalism, and the related processes of Europeanization, globalization, multiculturalism and transculturalism, as well as the neoliberal economic order?