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

Paul S. Adler and Seok-Woo Kwon

Chapter 7 in Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour, 2008, pp 139-160 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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).

Keywords: Medical Group; Professional Work; Professional Community; Hierarchical Control; American Hospital Association (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230592827_7

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