The paper focuses on the professionalization of family-firms. The study analyses the role of family and management systems in family business, particularly with regard to the relationship between professionalization and economic performance of family firms. The study analyses the features, the drivers and the effect of professionalization of family firms. All the hypotheses have been tested on ...

Within the Information Systems Discipline, business analysis has traditionally been considered a part of system development, and is usually taught as a part of systems analysis and design courses. Recent years however, have seen professionalization of business analysis which has culminated in the establishment of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). Since its incorporation i...

Recent literature considering the state of the social work profession has primarily focused on concerns about deprofessionalization. This article provides an overview of the literature on professionalization and professional decline in order to situate the social work profession within a broader context. The article then describes the emergence of a new role for social workers in Canada that cr...

Introduction Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) or maximum aerobic capacity, as it is known by exercise physiologists, is not a new topic by any means. The idea that the human body cannot survive without oxygen has been known for millennia. However, the notion that oxygen and its delivery and subsequent metabolism by exercising muscles is crucial to prolonged activity is relatively new, having fir...

This paper analyzes the determinants of professionalization in American state legislatures since the 1960s. I develop four hypotheses relating changes in professionalism to changes in two measures of government growth: bureaucracy size and expenditure levels. A panel analysis of state-level data reveals two major trends that occurred during the 1970s. First, increases in professionalism are inv...

This collection seeks to reconnect two separate streams of work on professional organizations and professional occupations. In particular the articles collected here identify two key themes: (1) the challenges and opportunities that professional organizations pose for established and emerging professionalization projects and (2) the extent to which professional organizations create, institution...