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Professional Ethics in Formal Organizations

Professional Service Firms

ISBN: 978-0-76231-302-0, eISBN: 978-1-84950-407-2

Publication date: 26 June 2006

Abstract

There has long been an “ideal” model of the profession in the sociology of the professions. Our point of departure is that the independent professional is something of a vanishing species, and professional practice is increasingly carried out within non-professional organizations (organizations not managed nor largely staffed by fellow professionals). Indeed, can we expect to recognize our “ideal” professional at all whether in the multi-disciplinary professional service practice or more focussed large private practices? Might in fact there be something fundamentally flawed about both in this model? This chapter explores these issues and their implications for how ethical dilemmas are resolved.

Citation

Gunz, H.P. and Gunz, S.P. (2006), "Professional Ethics in Formal Organizations", Greenwood, R. and Suddaby, R. (Ed.) Professional Service Firms (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 257-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0733-558X(06)24010-2

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