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Bucher, Silke V., Chreim, Samia, Langley, Ann and Reay, Patricia (2016) Contestation about collaboration : discursive boundary work among professions. Organization Studies, 37 (4). pp. 497-522. doi:10.1177/0170840615622067 ISSN 0170-8406.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840615622067
Abstract
We examine how professions responded to a potential change in jurisdictional boundaries by analyzing the written submissions of five professional associations in reaction to a government proposal to strengthen interprofessional collaboration, relating these responses to the professions’ field positions. We identify four foci for framing used by the professions to discursively develop their boundary claims: (1) framing the issue of interprofessional collaboration (issue framing), (2) framing of justifications for favored solutions (justifying), (3) framing the profession’s own identity (self-casting), and (4) framing other professions’ identities (altercasting). We find that professions employed these foci differently depending on two dimensions of their field positions – status and centrality. Our study contributes to the literature by identifying distinctive ways through which the foci for framing may be mobilized in situations of boundary contestation, and by theorizing how field position in terms of status and centrality influences actors’ framing strategies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Interprofessional relations, Health care teams, Medical personnel, Medical cooperation, Interpersonal relations, Frames (Sociology), Role conflict | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Organization Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0170-8406 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 5 January 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 37 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 497-522 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0170840615622067 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 February 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 February 2018 |
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