About us
- About us
  - Welcome to the Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms.
- People
  - Meet our faculty, staff and researchers.
- Funding
  - The Centre is funded by intellectual property law firm Novak Druce + Quigg LLP.
- Frequently asked questions
  - Answers to questions about the Centre and its work.
Research
- Working papers
  - Working papers by faculty and researchers at the Centre
- Vacancies
  - Novak Druce post doctoral research fellowship for 2010/11.
- Our research agenda
  - The internal and external dynamics of professional service firms.
- Professions and professionals
  - Discussion about the concept of professionalism.
News & Events
- Seminar series
  - Workshops with academics from around the world.
- Conference on Professional Service Firms
  - Tackling current issues.
- Past events
  - Read about previous events hosted by the Novak Druce Centre.
- Media coverage
  - The Novak Druce Centre in the press.

Media coverage

This page provides links to non-technical articles, reports and speeches connected to the Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms. Where possible, we have provided full text of the articles for free. However, where copyright does not allow this, we have provided a link to a site where you can order the relevant article.

Saïd Business School news items relating to the Centre can be found here.

Examining the evolving power of today's General Counsel

Corporate Counsel Online features Mari Sako's latest article on the changing nature of the power of General Counsel in today's legal service market

Technology strategy and management: Driving power in
global supply chains

Mari Sako tackles how global and local influences affect product manufacturers in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM

Beyond ABSs, firms must maintain their values and embrace technological change

In this Managing Partner article, Chris McKenna and Mari Sako of the Novak Druce Centre offer ideas on negotiating change in the legal services market

Are Clients Wrong to Give Consultants Inside Knowledge?

Chris McKenna, Director of the Novak Druce Centre gives his thoughts in the Financial Times

Everybody Change... BT, Thames Water and Microsoft Move Legal Work

The Novak Druce Centre's Mari Sako is quoted in a TimesOnline article on legal process outsourcing.

Globalization of Knowledge-Intensive Professional Services

Does the trend toward standardization and modularization of professional services make outsourcing inevitable?

Oxford Workshop grapples with programmes and professions

What is a programme? Is it an organisation? How should we study it? Is programme management a profession? Do all programmes ‘fail’ at some point?