Markets, Institutions, and the Crisis of Professional Practice
ISBN: 978-0-76231-302-0, eISBN: 978-1-84950-407-2
Publication date: 26 June 2006
Abstract
We identify three key areas of change in the context of professional services. First, is the increasing demographic diversity and growing income inequality within professions; second, is the emergence of neo-liberal ideologies that challenge traditional professional norms; third, is the emergence of management consulting as a distinct occupational group with professional aspirations. We argue that these trends have produced an environment in which the delivery of professional business services has become disembedded from its institutional context of professionalism. We speculate about the possibility of the re-emergence of professionalism as a distinct logic of authority and control for professional service organizations.
Citation
Leicht, K.T. and Lyman, E.C.W. (2006), "Markets, Institutions, and the Crisis of Professional Practice", Greenwood, R. and Suddaby, R. (Ed.) Professional Service Firms (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 17-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0733-558X(06)24002-3
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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