To protect themselves against deskilling and obsolescence, professionals must periodically
revise their claims to authority and expertise. Although we understand these dynamics in the …

To protect themselves against deskilling and obsolescence, professionals must periodically
revise their claims to authority and expertise. Although we understand these dynamics in the …

Purpose Changes in regulation systems make professional organizations more likely to
undergo rapid, profound and radical change. The issue of how micro-institutional change in …

External actors often advocate for organizations to address a wide range of societal
concerns, such as diversity, equality, and sustainability, and organizations have frequently …

In this article, we discuss how research on professions and organizations may benefit from a
better understanding of the emergence and prevalence of 'new'management occupations or …

Research on the professions argues that inference and routinization are key components of
professional practice associated with professional legitimacy. However, the literature fails to …

Managers have formal and official supervisory authority within an organizational hierarchy.
As a result, a perennial concern of managers is employee mobility, ie, the turnover of …

Many professional service organizations are experiencing increasing levels of
specialization. However, with increasing specialization, there arises a growing tension …

This research addresses the important question of how organizations can use financial
incentives to influence the work tasks of their professional workforce—a constituency that is …

Experts increasingly refine their expertise into specialties as they labour in and around
organizations. Yet, previous research assumes that experts are organized in the workplace …