Works
- Team work in context: institutional mediation in the public-service professional bureaucracy, Organization Studies 31(8), 1069 to 1097, 2010
- Institutional work to maintain professional power: recreating the model of medical professionalism, Organization Studies 33(7), 937 to 962, 2012
- Institutional complexity and individual responses: delineating the boundaries of partial autonomy, Organization Studies 38(1), 103 to 127 (online 2016, in print 2017), 2016
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Professional and managerial change in health care organizations
Ideas
Elite professionals' institutional work. When new roles threaten substitution, specialist doctors turn the threat into delegation of routine tasks, co-opt other professionals, and invoke risk to keep control of services. Caveat: English National Health Service only; Kellogg (2018) shows managers can still change professional practice by activating semi-professionals.