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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Professional Fluidity: Reconceptualising the Professional Status of Self-Employed Neo-professionals
Beteiligte:
Cross, David;
Swart, Juani
Erschienen:
SAGE Publications, 2021
Erschienen in:
Organization Studies, 42 (2021) 11, Seite 1699-1720
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1177/0170840620964985
ISSN:
1741-3044;
0170-8406
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Beschreibung:
Current debates and definitions of professionalism are primarily grounded in organisations, either as employing bureaucracies or service firms, that control and structure expert labour. This is problematic as it neglects the many neo-professionals that are self-employed. We draw on interviews with 50 independent consultants and find that, outside of organisational boundaries, they pursue a strategy of professional fluidity. This is a relational and market-driven approach that requires a multiplicity of roles and chameleon-like tactics. As opposed to notions of collegial, organisational and corporate professionalisation, professional fluidity is a co-constructed and agentic approach where validity and legitimacy are achieved primarily through relations with clients and collaborators rather than institutions or employing organisations. Through professional fluidity we contribute to a more holistic understanding of professionalism that is sensitive to the employment mode rather than knowledge domain and develops existing notions of who is a professional. This is important for wider debates on the current and future state of professions.