Dermatologist, orthopaedist, and psychiatrist walk into a COVID ward: on the permeability of professional boundaries in a competition-free context
2024 (English)In: Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research, ISSN 1351-1610, E-ISSN 1469-8412, Vol. 37, no 4, p. 965-983Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In studies on professions, it has long been understood that relations between professions are charged with competition over jurisdictions. The literature describes several techniques, such as rhetorical boundary-work, that professionals use to expand jurisdictions, gain a monopoly, or protect autonomy. But there still needs to be discovered how professionals cooperate when they are not motivated or threatened by jurisdictional struggle. In this article, we offer an analysis of COVID-19 wards in Poland, where physicians from diverse specialisations were made to work together and treat patients with coronavirus disease. That allows us to expand theoretical debate about professions by showing that in a context free of competition, boundaries between professions become permeable. © 2023 The European Association for the Advancement of the Social Sciences.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxon: Routledge, 2024. Vol. 37, no 4, p. 965-983
Keywords [en]
boundary crossing, boundary-work, COVID-19, medical specialisations, organisational learning, professions
National Category
Economics and Business Health Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-51548DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2023.2247569ISI: 001049624200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85167968524OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-51548DiVA, id: diva2:1793295
2023-08-312023-08-312024-12-17Bibliographically approved