Bücher von Michael Burrage

Michael Burrage is a director of Cimigo which is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and conducts market and corporate strategy research in China, India and 12 countries in the Asia Pacific region. He is also a founder director of a start-up specialist telecom company which among other things provides the free telephone interpreter service for aid workers and others in Afghanistan at www.afghaninterpreters.org. He is a sociologist by training, was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and lectured at the London School of Economics for many years, specialising in cross-national analysis of industrial enterprise and professional institutions. His years there were, however, interrupted by spells as a research fellow at Harvard, at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study, Uppsala, at the Free University of Berlin and at the Center for Higher Education Studies and the Institute of Government of the University of California Berkeley. He has been British Council lecturer at the University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, and also a visiting professor at Kyoto, Hokkaido, Kansai and Hosei universities in Japan. He has written articles in a number of American, European and Japanese sociological journals, conducted a comparative study of telephone usage in Tokyo, Manhattan, Paris and London for NTT, and a study of British entrepreneurs for Ernst & Young. His recent publications include Revolution and the Making of the Contemporary Legal Profession: England, France and the United States (OUP) 2006 and Class Formation, Civil Society and the State: A comparative analysis of Russia, France, the United States and England (Palgrave Macmillan) 2008. He edited Martin Trow: Twentieth-century higher education: from elite to mass to universal (Johns Hopkins) 2010. He recently contributed to Professionen, Eigentum und Staat: Europaische Entwicklungen im Vergleich -19. und 20. Jahrhundert, (Wallstein Verlag) 2014.