Spotlight on identity construction among professionals transitioning to an emerging occupation DOI Creative Commons
Cynthia Courtois, Claire-France Picard, Yves Gendron

et al.

Journal of Professions and Organization, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 6, 2024

Abstract The contemporary work environment is characterized by frequent transitions throughout an individual’s career. A relatively recent trend concerns established professionals relocating in newly emerging occupations. Despite the extensive research conducted on construction of professional identity, there still a dearth knowledge regarding how occupational identity formed. aim this study to gain deeper understanding process through which (re)construct their when making career transition occupation. Drawing twenty-seven interviews with accounting and law enforcement fields who have transitioned antifraud occupation, we explore they navigate tensions between different aspirational, professional, expected identities, employ strategies establish or blur boundaries define identity. This offers coherent constructed shaped interaction multiple identities. contributes literature developing more nuanced boundary that construct during transition. Further, our underscores pivotal concern maintenance professionalism as move into nascent roles. In such circumstances, definition may be less clearly delineated, establishment rule-setting primarily determined organization’s management, thus curtailing autonomy traditionally associated professionalism.

Language: Английский

Leveraging or Overcoming Distance? Global Strategy and Structure of Professional Services Firms DOI Creative Commons
Mari Sako,

Jeffrey Peo

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Nov. 10, 2024

In this study, geographic distance is an instructional logic that influences the international strategy and structure of professional service firms (PSFs). By drawing on three governance modes—global value chains, virtual teams, ecosystems—we identify eight structures in use by PSFs, resulting from reliance one two logics: distance-as-enabler distance-as-barrier. When prioritized, PSFs choose a more unified at global level. distance-as-barrier upheld, give greater autonomy to local units or establish loosely connected regionally autonomous partnerships. highlighting co-evolution between practice we further show necessitates work be codified modularized, while proximity preserves work's bespoke nature. We apply framework demonstrate how external environmental factors trigger shift specific governance-practice form another.

Language: Английский

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Spotlight on identity construction among professionals transitioning to an emerging occupation DOI Creative Commons
Cynthia Courtois, Claire-France Picard, Yves Gendron

et al.

Journal of Professions and Organization, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 6, 2024

Abstract The contemporary work environment is characterized by frequent transitions throughout an individual’s career. A relatively recent trend concerns established professionals relocating in newly emerging occupations. Despite the extensive research conducted on construction of professional identity, there still a dearth knowledge regarding how occupational identity formed. aim this study to gain deeper understanding process through which (re)construct their when making career transition occupation. Drawing twenty-seven interviews with accounting and law enforcement fields who have transitioned antifraud occupation, we explore they navigate tensions between different aspirational, professional, expected identities, employ strategies establish or blur boundaries define identity. This offers coherent constructed shaped interaction multiple identities. contributes literature developing more nuanced boundary that construct during transition. Further, our underscores pivotal concern maintenance professionalism as move into nascent roles. In such circumstances, definition may be less clearly delineated, establishment rule-setting primarily determined organization’s management, thus curtailing autonomy traditionally associated professionalism.

Language: Английский

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1