Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy

By Stephen R. Barley, Gideon Kunda. 2004

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The Autonomy Paradox: The Implications of Mobile Email Devices for Knowledge Professionals (2013, unknown): “…workers will — in certain circumstances — limit their autonomy in response to the demands of a job, a team, or a changing labor market (Barker 1993; Barley and Kunda 2004; Covaleski, Dirsmith, Heian, and Samuel 1998; Deetz 1997; Fraser 2001; Kunda 1992; Martin, Knopoff and Beckmann 1998;…”
Normalized Intensity: The New Labour Process of Middle Management (2008, result): “has resulted in similar outcomes, as described by Beynon et al. (2002), Carter and Fairbrother (1995), Kirkpatrick et al.”
Algorithms that Divide and Unite: Delocalisation, Identity and Collective Action in ‘Microwork’ (2016, background): “, Huws and Dahlmann 2010, Barley and Kunda 2006, Rock and Pratt 2002), but very little research has been done in the context of such extremely delocalized work as microwork. Irani (2013)”