Professional scaling work: How professional segments claim new jurisdictions in a world of trans-local connections
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Professional scaling work : How professional segments claim new jurisdictions in a world of trans-local connections. / Meilvang, Marie Leth; Blok, Anders; Lindstrøm, Maria Duclos; Pedersen, Inge Kryger.
In: International Sociology, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2022, p. 496-514.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Professional scaling work
T2 - How professional segments claim new jurisdictions in a world of trans-local connections
AU - Meilvang, Marie Leth
AU - Blok, Anders
AU - Lindstrøm, Maria Duclos
AU - Pedersen, Inge Kryger
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The literature on professions, drawing on both sociological and management approaches, has recently turned its focus to the transnational scale. In this article, building on Andrew Abbott’s work on professional jurisdictions, we analyze the way transnational resources come to play a role in local professional claims-making and work practices in the inter-professional struggle overjurisdiction. Comparing case studies set in Denmark into three emerging professional jurisdictions, our analysis shows that professional segments claiming new work tasks engage actively in scaling work that attempts to ‘rescale’ the jurisdiction to fit their own professional projects and claims.We find that scaling practices consist of three different ways professionals invest in transnational resources: organizational avatars, new work regulations and prescriptions, and symbolic legitimacy. These ways in which professionals transform transnational resources into claims used in local professionals situations result in different outcomes for the professional segments involved.
AB - The literature on professions, drawing on both sociological and management approaches, has recently turned its focus to the transnational scale. In this article, building on Andrew Abbott’s work on professional jurisdictions, we analyze the way transnational resources come to play a role in local professional claims-making and work practices in the inter-professional struggle overjurisdiction. Comparing case studies set in Denmark into three emerging professional jurisdictions, our analysis shows that professional segments claiming new work tasks engage actively in scaling work that attempts to ‘rescale’ the jurisdiction to fit their own professional projects and claims.We find that scaling practices consist of three different ways professionals invest in transnational resources: organizational avatars, new work regulations and prescriptions, and symbolic legitimacy. These ways in which professionals transform transnational resources into claims used in local professionals situations result in different outcomes for the professional segments involved.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Jurisdiction
KW - professions
KW - scaling work
KW - transnational resources
U2 - 10.1177/02685809221103486
DO - 10.1177/02685809221103486
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 496
EP - 514
JO - International Sociology
JF - International Sociology
SN - 0268-5809
IS - 4
ER -
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