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Professional Autonomy versus Corporate Control

Author(s) -

Pål Nygaard

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

professions and professionalism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31

H-Index - 6

ISSN - 1893-1049

DOI - 10.7577/pp.v2i1.164

Subject(s) - bureaucracy , professionalization , collegiality , autonomy , control (management) , work (physics) , public relations , political science , sociology , public administration , management , law , economics , engineering , politics , mechanical engineering

Professionalism and bureaucracy tend to be understood as incompatible systems of work organization, represented by the ideals of collegiality and auton-omy versus control and supervision. I present a historical case study from early 20th century Norway examining the potential clash between efforts made toward professionalization and bureaucratization in industry. Based on my findings, I argue that there is neither an inherent conflict between professionalism and bureaucracy nor static national trajectories at the level of professional versus bureaucratic work organization.

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