TY - JOUR

T1 - Professional scaling work

T2 - How professional segments claim new jurisdictions in a world of trans-local connections

AU - Meilvang, Marie Leth

AU - Blok, Anders

AU - Lindstrøm, Maria Duclos

AU - Pedersen, Inge Kryger

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - The literature on professions, drawing on both sociological and management approaches, has recently turned its focus to the transnational scale. In this article, building on Andrew Abbott’s work on professional jurisdictions, we analyze the way transnational resources come to play a role in local professional claims-making and work practices in the inter-professional struggle overjurisdiction. Comparing case studies set in Denmark into three emerging professional jurisdictions, our analysis shows that professional segments claiming new work tasks engage actively in scaling work that attempts to ‘rescale’ the jurisdiction to fit their own professional projects and claims.We find that scaling practices consist of three different ways professionals invest in transnational resources: organizational avatars, new work regulations and prescriptions, and symbolic legitimacy. These ways in which professionals transform transnational resources into claims used in local professionals situations result in different outcomes for the professional segments involved.

AB - The literature on professions, drawing on both sociological and management approaches, has recently turned its focus to the transnational scale. In this article, building on Andrew Abbott’s work on professional jurisdictions, we analyze the way transnational resources come to play a role in local professional claims-making and work practices in the inter-professional struggle overjurisdiction. Comparing case studies set in Denmark into three emerging professional jurisdictions, our analysis shows that professional segments claiming new work tasks engage actively in scaling work that attempts to ‘rescale’ the jurisdiction to fit their own professional projects and claims.We find that scaling practices consist of three different ways professionals invest in transnational resources: organizational avatars, new work regulations and prescriptions, and symbolic legitimacy. These ways in which professionals transform transnational resources into claims used in local professionals situations result in different outcomes for the professional segments involved.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Jurisdiction

KW - professions

KW - scaling work

KW - transnational resources

U2 - 10.1177/02685809221103486

DO - 10.1177/02685809221103486

M3 - Journal article

VL - 37

SP - 496

EP - 514

JO - International Sociology

JF - International Sociology

SN - 0268-5809

IS - 4

ER -