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Transforming the professional archetype?

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  • Ian Kirkpatrick
  • Stephen Ackroyd

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The aim of this article is to question the idea that all professional service organizations are undergoing a process of inter-archetype transformation. This idea, originating in organizational archetype theory, is now being used to interpret contemporary processes of change in British and other public sector services. Drawing on an example of management UK restructuring in social services during the 1990s -- that of local authority social services in the UK -- two main problems with this thesis are identified. First, this service demonstrates that ‘radical’ change has not occurred and that older professional values and working practices persist. Second, it reveals how, in at least one part of the public sector in the UK, management reforms have been partly undermined by a specific constellation of institutions and practices. These observations call for questioning the proposition that inter-archetype change is what has occurred and that current reforms will inevitably have this sort of transformational effect.

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  • Ian Kirkpatrick & Stephen Ackroyd, 2003. "Transforming the professional archetype?," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(4), pages 511-531, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:5:y:2003:i:4:p:511-531
    DOI: 10.1080/1471903032000178563
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    1. Johan Alvehus & Sanna Eklund & Gustaf Kastberg, 2020. "Organizing Professionalism – New Elites, Stratification and Division of Labor," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 163-177, March.
    2. Gill Kirton & Cécile Guillaume, 2019. "When Welfare Professionals Encounter Restructuring and Privatization: The Inside Story of the Probation Service of England and Wales," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 33(6), pages 929-947, December.
    3. Tugce Ugur Guler & Derya Sasman Kayli, 2021. "Effects of Managerialism Reflected in Public Institutions Serving Women in Turkey," Journal of Economy Culture and Society, Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 63(63), pages 257-278, June.
    4. Andrews, Matthew R., 2009. "Isomorphism and the Limits to African Public Financial Management Reform," Scholarly Articles 4415942, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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