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Community, Market, and Hierarchy in the Evolving Organization of Professional Work: The Case of Medicine

In: Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour

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  • Paul S. Adler
  • Seok-Woo Kwon

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Professionals constitute an increasingly important occupational category. They are key actors in an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy (Bell, 1973; Quinn et al., 1996) and they play a central role in the accelerating generation and diffusion of innovations (Scott, 1995; Swan and Newell, 1995). Much of the scholarly interest in professionals in the US and UK has focused on the relative independence of professionals in those countries from market and hierarchical pressures. A rich tradition of research has debated whether this independence is destined to erode – as happened to the traditional petite bourgeoisie – or whether, on the contrary, it is more likely to generalize across the growing number of knowledge workers and expert occupations (Giddens, 1991; Sullivan and Hazlet, 1995; Reed, 1996).

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  • Paul S. Adler & Seok-Woo Kwon, 2008. "Community, Market, and Hierarchy in the Evolving Organization of Professional Work: The Case of Medicine," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Daniel Muzio & Stephen Ackroyd & Jean-François Chanlat (ed.), Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour, chapter 7, pages 139-160, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59282-7_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230592827_7
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