“…They are professionals whose work in the planning and execution of IPs is informed by their respective areas of Downloaded by [Michigan State University] at 23:23 19 February 2015 intervention, training, and ways of doing things. This diversity in the type of professionals involved in IP management has also been observed in other contexts (Granville, 2002;McCallum et al, 2006;Osborne & Bullock, 2000;Perlstein & Bliss, 1994;Pinto, 2011). However, questions, such as the specific characteristics of IP managers, their functions and competencies, or the traits and tasks that these managers share with any other type of social profession, have not yet been studied (Sáez & Campillo, 2012).…”