From "pure" to "hybrid" professionalism: Present-day professionalism in ambiguous public domains

Administration and Society

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 761-785

  Noordegraaf, Mirko ^a,b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Public Management ^*

Author keywords

Knowledge society; Managerial professionals; Professional managers; Professionalism; Public sector reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548580755     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: 15523039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399707304434     Document Type: Article

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