Anchoring Professional Careers in Shared Service Centres: Reflections on Contemporary Practice

This paper submitted to the CASA E-Leader Conferenc e, Singapore 2013, is part of a PhD project sponsored and funded by the Economic and So cial Research Council (ESRC), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA ) and the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University. The research in orporates aspects of the sociology of professions, career theory and global talent man agement with the endeavour to protect professional traits and behaviours that contribute to the commercial benefits of employing Shared Service Centre Models in multinational corpo rati ns. The project is currently at the literature review s tage and therefore this paper will discuss some of the areas influential in developing the res arch: 1. Changing Professionalism 2. Professionals Embedded Within Organisations 3. Finance Professionals Within the Shared Service Cen tre 4. Managing Careers, Managing Knowledge; The Relevance of Career Anchors The aims of this development paper are to validate po ntial research questions.