Quality, diversity, and impact: (The first) 10 years of the<i>Journal of Professions and Organization</i>

Brock, David M

doi:10.1093/jpo/joad023

Journal of Professions and Organization

2023

DOI: 10.1093/jpo/joad023

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Quality, diversity, and impact: (The first) 10 years of theJournal of Professions and Organization

David M Brock

Abstract: This essay marks, reviews, and celebrates the first decade of the Journal of Professions and Organization. It begins with a brief review of the journal’s founding, initial scope, and objectives. This is followed by an analysis of all the articles published in the first decade (2014–23) of the journal’s existence. Finally, turning to the future, we consider at topics and initiatives that are becoming relevant as we approach JPO’s second decade.

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Reflections on a communication journey into professionalism and organizing

McAllum,

Barbour,

Fox

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Journal of Professions and Organization

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Much research in the field of communication studies has evidenced a ‘performative turn’ in how it views professionalism, professionals, and the professions. This special issue, Opening up the meanings of ‘the professional’, professional organizations, and professionalism in communication studies, documents this process and lays out a research agenda in and from communication studies that can inform scholarship on professionalism and organizing. In addition to mapping out and contextualizing the multiple, contested meanings of professionalism, particularly in novel or ‘non-standard’ contexts, it shows how workers enact, negotiate, reify, and resist the meanings of professionalism in both aspirational and exclusionary ways. When we shift the focus from professional experts (and the institutional apparatus that protects their status, autonomy, and authority) to expertise, as Ashcraft suggests in her contribution to this special issue, scholarly analysis needs to account for an entire network of actors, ideas, instruments, and forms of organizing that allow for successful—or failed—performances of expertise and understand that those performances rest on economies of difference. Economies of difference are distinctions among the sorts of work, workers, and working that wield political power in that they implicate social structures and dictate how specialized expertise is and can be deployed and recognized. Economies of difference create and benefit from inequities. The articles in this special issue offer empirical and conceptual windows into the contested and messy performance of professionalism, how it serves as a resource for some and a constraint for others, and how its contemporary meaning is potentially disrupted.

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Reflections on a communication journey into professionalism and organizing

McAllum,

Barbour,

Fox

et al. 2024

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How Does Internationalization Help Reputation? The Role of the Learning Gap

Salvoldi,

Brock

2024

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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This study delves into the intangible effects of internationalization on reputation, and proposes a mechanism by which internationalization can lead to improved reputation. Grounded in institutional and signaling theories, we begin by proposing that internationalization signals learning advantages deriving from experience in host environments and responses to foreign institutional pressures. Then, we derive the learning gap construct from two principal dimensions of the diversity of location portfolio, namely home—host cognitive distance and power asymmetry; and posit that this learning gap explains the link between internationalization and reputation. Analyses based on the legal service industry demonstrate that while international diversification is important in predicting reputational benefits at home, its effect is mediated through the learning gap deriving from each firm's internationalization, underscoring potential advantages of home—host differences.

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Quality, diversity, and impact: (The first) 10 years of theJournal of Professions and Organization

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Reflections on a communication journey into professionalism and organizing

Reflections on a communication journey into professionalism and organizing

How Does Internationalization Help Reputation? The Role of the Learning Gap

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