Professions in Theory and History: Rethinking the Study of Professions

Savage, Mike; Torstendahl, Rolf; Burrage, Michael

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“…legal, marketplace) will perform better and survive longer. Savage (1994) asserts that professions are neither occupations nor firms, but instead represent an example of the network form of organization that has evolved and continues to survive because they represent comparatively efficient and adaptable solutions to certain kinds of dynamic production problems. Collectively, the public accounting profession consists of many entities ranging from sole practitioners to the Big Four international firms and various national and international professional bodies.…”

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Public Accounting in the New Millenium: On the Edge of Chaos

Kuhn¹

2012

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Change is a constant feature of organizational existence. Successfully managing change requires an understanding of the environment in which an organization operates. The complex and interconnected world in which public accounting operates presents many challenges to the traditional neo-classical view of research and management. Awareness of the constantly-changing, networked environment and the dynamics of agent interactions offers distinct competitive advantages to the astute. The current paper strives to convey the appropriateness and necessity for recognizing the public accounting profession as a complex adaptive system (CAS) that operates in an ever-changing, unpredictable environment impacted by local and global politico-economic entities, professional organizations, clientele, internal organizational members, higher education institutions, technological advances, and others. Drawing on complexity theory, the paper develops and presents testable propositions to examine the public accounting profession as a CAS with the express purpose of stimulating more holistic research efforts in accounting.

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Public Accounting in the New Millenium: On the Edge of Chaos

Kuhn¹

2012

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“…Moreover, even in the early nineteenth century, consumers could not directly discern the quality of products by casual inspection: many of the most famous cases of adulteration involved simple commodities like bread or flour. And small generalist retailers were often perfectly capable of certifying the weight and purity of even sophisticated commodities like pharmaceuticals; only now are pharmacists being supplanted by branding, and that is because of a change in the sophistication of testing equipment as much as by changes in the drugs themselves (Savage 1994). In the end, the system of branding arose to solve a transaction cost problem caused by -but that was arguably small in comparison with -the major production-cost gains from new process technology.…”

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The Vanishing Hand: The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

Langlois¹

2001

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“…At the other extreme are professionalsphysicians, architects, attorneys, academics -who must have large repertoires of routines and who must be able to choose deftly among routines to fit changing particular circumstances. In addition, professionals also engage in innovation, the introduction of new routines (Savage 1994). In between are the semiskilled occupations, like tradesmen -carpenters, plumbers, drywallers, electricians -or the crafts artisans of the eighteenth century.…”

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The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System

Langlois

1998

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This essay is a reinterpretation of the debate over the origins of the factory system. In the end, it argues, the explanation for the rise of the factory system lies in the realm of organization, but not in the qualities of organization envisaged by either the quot;radicalquot; view or the transaction-cost view. Drawing on the recent explanations of Clark and Lazonick, the paper suggests that the explanation lies in the volume effect rather than the division-of-labor effect of increasing extent of the market. The essay closes with some musings on the logic of both efficiency and exploitation in historical explanation.

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Professions in Theory and History: Rethinking the Study of Professions

Cited by 20 publications

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Public Accounting in the New Millenium: On the Edge of Chaos

Public Accounting in the New Millenium: On the Edge of Chaos

The Vanishing Hand: The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System

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