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Call for Papers: Interim Conférence | ISA RC52: Sociology or Professional Groups11-12 novembre 2012, University Campus Suffolk (UCS)Organiser: Mike SaksProfessional groups are closely linked with enterprise at a number of interrelated levels. They often work in private enterprises, as well as in social enterprises. They are also frequently enterprising, in so far as they act in innovatory, entrepreneurial and energetic ways on behalf of clients and wider public agendas. This conference explores through a number of cognate sessions the interface of a broad range of professionals and professions with the enterprise context in which they work and the dilemmas and opportunities that thereby arise in what is currently a highly challenging societal and global economic context. The conference programme also considers ways in which, and conditions under which, professions can positively be enterprising in terms of the use of such devices as new technologies, social networks, knowledge transfer and “can do” approaches – as well as how they may obstruct change, to the prejudice of those that they are often publicly committed to serving. In addition to empirical studies, session proposals that examine the theoretical and methodological issues involved in such an analysis are also invited. (...)Lire la suite de l'appel à communication : isa-rc52-conf-ucsDeadline: 18 mai 2012