Book Review: Human Resources, Management, and Personnel: Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy

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Examining contemporary careers: A call for interdisciplinary inquiry (2008, background): “Barley and Kunda (2004) suggest a stronger role for occupational institutions that provide worker credentials, skills training and links to employment opportunities in support of ‘itinerant professionalism’.”
The ‘bounded' career: An empirical study of human capital, career mobility and employment outcomes in a mediated labour market (2005, methodology): “Many agencies fulfil both functions, although it is their role in contingent labour markets that has attracted most attention (e.g. Barley & Kunda, 2004).”
Review article: Enhancing employability: Human, cultural, and social capital in an era of turbulent unpredictability (2010, background): “According to O’Mahony and Bechky, contract workers in IT and film production engaged in stretchwork, consisting of creative strategies that enabled them to move forward to jobs that required slightly higher skill levels (see also Barley and Kunda, 2004).”
Normalized Intensity: The New Labour Process of Middle Management (2008, methodology): “has resulted in similar outcomes, as described by Beynon et al. (2002), Carter and Fairbrother (1995), Kirkpatrick et al.”