Professions and their work: Do market shelters protect professional interests?

Work and Occupations

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-188

  Timmermans, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Evidence based medicine; Market shelter; Profession theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449114084     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888407313032     Document Type: Article

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