New professionalism, trust and competence: Some conceptual remarks and empirical data

Current Sociology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Svensson, Lennart G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Oslo and Akershus University College   (Norway)

^c European Sociological Association   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cognitive; Legitimacy; Organization; Professionalism; Semantics; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745614888     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392106065089     Document Type: Article

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