It is in many ways a microcosm of some of the larger issues confronting the economy: a large debt burden, shallow management capacity and overall professionalization, a lack of long-term planning and marketing and of course subject to a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
The virtues of professionalization are clear; without a professional corps, organizations would suffer from crises induced by incompetency.
Inevitably, tensions have arisen within the social sciences as the result of processes of professionalization.
They thought life was a problem that could be solved by means of professionalization.
The history of the American press demonstrates a tendency toward exactly the kind of professionalization for which Lippmann initially argued.
Gender difference in the likelihood of professionalization is not significant.
The comparative history of the professions shows that paths, cycles, and types of professionalization may vary.
Teleological understandings of professionalization and static conceptions of the professions are thus relativized.
Country-level predictors did not have a significant effect on the likelihood of professionalization.
This review paper argues that the institutions and sites of professionalization projects and regulatory processes matter.
By taking these points into consideration, scholars have relativized both teleological understandings of professionalization and static conceptions of the professions.
