Intra-Professional Status, Maintenance Failure, and the Reformation of the Scottish Civil Justice System

Abstract

The Scottish civil justice system is undergoing its most substantive transformation in over 150 years. This reformation will create new judicial bodies, alter the jurisdictional reach of courts, and drastically unsettle what has been, up to now, a highly stable institutional field. These changes have caused pronounced threats to the status of different groups of actors in the field. Our work examines the impact of these threats, and the varying responses among groups of professional actors. In so doing, we detail how intra-professional status differences and uncertainty hindered attempts to maintain threatened institutions.

Long-term alterations of ERP systems: lasting through relinquishment and regeneration

“…Our results contribute to studies on institutional maintenance (Zietsma and Lawrence, 2010; Chaudhry and Rubery, 2017; Ozturk et al , 2016). Lasting is not just a matter of being maintained in a context of threat but also builds upon the capacities of a technical device to maintain itself.…”

“…In such context, discontinuation of maintenance work combines with self-maintenance abilities to constitute lasting. Hence, while Ozturk et al (2016) analyse “maintenance failure” as “hindered attempts to maintain threatened institutions”, we unfold a progressive discontinuation of maintenance of a CRM to account for its lasting. The few studies which emphasize partial erosion of institutions do this to understand processes of deinstitutionalisation (Chaudhry and Rubery, 2017).…”

“…In such context, discontinuation of maintenance work combines with selfmaintenance abilities to constitute lasting. Hence, while Ozturk et al (2016) analyse "maintenance failure" as "hindered attempts to maintain threatened institutions", we unfold a progressive discontinuation of maintenance of a CRM to account for its lasting.…”