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Review of The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor by Andrew Abbott
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This article is published in American Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1989-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 10 citations till now.read more
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Jurisdictional disputes over professional work: the institutionalization of the global knowledge expert☆
TL;DR: The authors examined the dramaturgy of exchange relations among the Big Five public accounting firms, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), as it concerns the outsourcing of internal audit services to international external audit firms.
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Internalization versus externalization of the internal audit function: an examination of professional and organizational imperatives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw from two dominant literature perspectives (the sociology of professions literature and the outsourcing literature) to examine this clash between the public accounting profession and the internal auditing profession over the provision of internal audit services.
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It, Gender, and Professional Practice: Or, Why an Automated Drug Distribution System Was Sent Back to the Manufacturer
TL;DR: It was found that gender and technological change did interact to produce an ambivalent impact on professional practice and identities at a long-term care facility in Winnipeg, Canada, in which a nursing unit-based automated system had been installed.
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Jurisdiction in school social workers’ and teachers’ work for pupils’ well-being
Cristine Isaksson,Anna Larsson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how school social workers and teachers perceive their cooperation with each other with regard to pupils' well-being in Swedish schools and present a total of 23 qualitative interviews with teachers and social workers.
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1.4.3 Challenges in the Development of Systems Engineering as a Profession
Indrajeet Dixit,Ricardo Valerdi +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explores a fundamental and important question: is Systems Engineering a profession by observing systems engineering through the theoretical lens of the professionalization literature rooted in sociology and proposing five key challenges to systems engineering as a profession.