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Professionalism in Retreat? How New Public Management has Affected the Swedish Doctors

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Summary, in English

In this paper the impact of New Public Management is issued in terms of its effects on the professionalism of the Swedish doctors, where professionalism is conceptualized, according to Freidson's (2001) definition, as "the institutional circumstances in which the members of an occupation rather than consumers or managers control work". Also the ideal type builds on the assumption that the conditions for professionslism must be negotiated with and protected by the state. Using the ideal type as a fixed point to examine change in doctors' institutional circumstances between ca 1960-1985 and ca 1985-2000 (the NPM-era), I conclude that their professionalism has decreased as a concequence of NPM.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Business Administration
  • Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Keywords

  • Professinalism
  • New Public Management
  • Doctors
  • deprofessionalization
  • control

Conference name

CIMBA/BAA New Public Sector Seminar

Conference date

2005-10-26 - 2005-10-28

Status

Published