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This article considers what happens when subordinate occupations challenge established roles and hierarchically organized professional divisions. Charting the struggles of a group of Advanced Nurse Practitioners to be recognized as a profession, the article considers the ways in which claims to licence, place and mandate are employed to negotiate new occupational spaces. Such spaces are shown to emerge as a consequence of the interplay of individual demands and favourable supply side conditions, the latter being required to support the development of new models of working in marginal positions. In a departure from accounts that place managerialism and entrepreneurialism in opposition to professionalism, the article shows how the executive authority that comes with entrepreneurial ownership can bolster professionalizing claims, disrupting and reversing hierarchically organized professional divisions. Identified as a context specific form of ordinal switching, the article considers whether such reversals herald a long-term shift in dominant—subordinate professional relations.

One female and six male subjects were used to evaluate the effectiveness of four modern "super-swimfin" designs when compared to a set of conventional fins. Oxygen consumption and heart rates were measured at a predetermined submaximal workload using a swimming ergometer. Times for kicking 22.9 m were also compared. The results demonstrated that significantly less oxygen was consumed during the trials in which the vented super-fins of large surface area were used than when the conventional fins were used. Significant V̇O2differences were also noted between super-fins, with large surface area, inflexible, or venturi designs resulting in the consumption of more oxygen than the others. A statistically significant linear correlation (r = −.90) was computed when comparing oxygen consumption to fin surface area. Flexibility of the fins was noted to be directly related to the speed that could be attained (r = .90). It was concluded that only the super-fin designs that were vented and had a large surface area are more efficient than the conventional fins tested.

"Where classical mainstream writing has often presumed, or pretended, that organizational actors are predominantly men, the authors covered in this book challenge this presumption, as well as its implications for the ways in which we think about and enact organizing, managing, leading and working. From the five levels of gendered processes of organization identified by Acker through to Irigaray's philosophy of the feminine, the idea of a singular masculine subject that dominates organizing is deconstructed. Writers such as Irigaray also remind us that the body as well as the mind is central to organizing, with de Beauvoir's account of the 'otherness' of women in organizational contexts, and Kristeva's work on abjection, shedding new light on dominant orders. Recent theorising in queer and transgender studies - epitomised by the work of Judith/Jack Haberstam and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - highlight that the bodies and gender are themselves fluid constructions. Together these themes demonstrate how our understanding of organizing can be transformed when other voices, bodies and genders write about what it is to work, live, lead and relate to ourselves and others. This book will be relevant to students and researchers across business and management, organizational studies, critical management studies, gender studies and sociology"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series note -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: rethinking culture, organization and management -- Chapter 2 Joanne Martin -- (Meta)theory of culture -- 'Other' writings -- Gender inequality -- On (gendered) aspects of academic careers and research processes -- Conclusion -- the future of Martin and organization studies -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Recommended reading -- References -- Chapter 3 Mary Douglas: the cultural and material manifestations of dirt and dirty work

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series note -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction: beyond rationality in organization and management -- 2 Unbounded relationality: Mary Parker Follett's integrative theory, method and life -- 3 Arlie Russell Hochschild -- 4 Lillian Moller Gilbreth -- 5 The inspirations of Heather Höpfl: taking heart from radical humanism -- 6 Discursive writing, representations of the past and gender: writing Frances Perkins out of management and organizational studies -- Index.