To Hive or to Hold? Producing Professional Authority through Scut Work

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 263-299

  Huising, Ruthanne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

authority; autonomy; biosafety officers; clients; compliance; control; dirty work; expertise; health physicists; laboratories; professions; relational authority; scut work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930467413     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839214560743     Document Type: Article

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