CAREER RESOURCING AND THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL EMERGENCE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Nigam, Amit; Dokko, Gina
• 署名单位: City St Georges, University of London; University of California System; University of California Davis
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2015.0038
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 1052-1084
• 关键词: HEALTH-SERVICES RESEARCH; institutional change; CLINICAL GUIDELINES; IDENTITY WORK; field; LOGICS; QUALITY; AGENCY; TRANSFORMATION; ORGANIZATIONS

摘要

We theorize a career resourcing process that explains how individuals can create a new profession. Using historical archives, we trace the emergence of health services research as a new research profession through the career actions of early practitioners. We find that career resourcing can lead to the institutionalization of a new profession by (a) a process of accretion, wherein people pursuing fulfilling careers generate resources that contribute to institutionalization, or (b) institutional work to deliberately build the professional community and infrastructure. We contribute to research on institutional change by specifying career actions that can lead to the institutionalization of a new profession, and by developing theory that accounts for the motivations and the means of individuals to act in ways that result in the institutionalization of a new profession.