Purpose – Executive coaching has emerged as a widely used leadership development practice in organizations. To date, however, the literature on coaching is largely devoid of studies of how coaching works in practice and no unified comprehensive theoretical framework has been agreed upon which...

Purpose – Organizations are sites where identities are constructed and maintained and a substantial literature points at identity work as being of central importance for managerial practice. Identities are often fragile and contingent constructs, shifting over time and as the actor moves...

Occupational groups and professions, practices, institutions, and knowledge in construction work -- Site manager work and the value of coaching -- Materiality, aesthetics, and social, and cultural capital in architects' work -- The architect's gaze : visual artefacts, perception, and knowledge...