...Deryk Stec Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the growing popularity of coaching; a concept whose influence increasingly spans academic disciplines and institutional fields. Design/methodology/approach The paper makes sense of coaching by using actor network theory, an approach...

...Deryk Stec Purpose This article aims to place the emergence of coaching in its appropriate historical context and address the lack of historical attention given to this subject. In tracing the path the coach has taken in becoming a management concept, the article seeks to draw attention to its...