Carlos Ramirez

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to show how the result of a process of social closure and the achievement of a professional project are heavily dependent on the cultural context in which they are embedded, and they used the concepts of field and of capital to understand the failure, before the Second World War, of the project to institutionalise the accounting profession in France.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for a more systematic engagement with the work of Bourdieu by organizational scholars and emphasize the opportunity to develop cumulative research on domination within and between organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for a more systematic engagement with the work of Bourdieu by organizational scholars and emphasize the opportunity to develop cumulative research on domination within and between organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, the ICAEW's efforts to problematise the nature of small practices indicate a will to integrate distant modalities of accounting expertise into a single professional space, so as to prevent the physical and geographical distance between big and small firms from becoming too conspicuous a hierarchical distinction, and thus preserve the ideal of the community of peers upon which professional bodies have been built.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that change can turn awry when equity in a community of peers is threatened, and how institutional work can remedy such a situation by restoring a sense of worth in the community.