TY - JOUR

T1 - Critical Essay: Inserting professionals and professional organizations in studies of wrongdoing

T2 - The nature, antecedents, and consequences of professional misconduct.

AU - Gabbioneta, Claudia

AU - Faulconbridge, James Robert

AU - Currie, Graeme

AU - Dinovitzer, Ronit

AU - Muzio, Daniel

N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Human Relations, 72, (11), 2018, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Human Relations page: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/hum on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/

PY - 2019/11/1

Y1 - 2019/11/1

N2 - Professional misconduct has become seemingly ubiquitous in recent decades. However, to date there has been little sustained effort to theorize the phenomenon of professional misconduct, how this relates to professional organizations, and how this may contribute to broader patterns of corruption and wrongdoing. In response to this gap, in this contribution we discuss the theoretical and empirical implications of analyses that focus on the nature, antecedents and consequences of professional misconduct. In particular, we discuss how the nature of professional misconduct can be quite variegated and nuanced, how boundaries between and within professions can be either too weak or too strong and lead to professional misconduct, and how the consequence of professional misconduct can be less straightforward than normally assumed. We also illuminate how some important questions about professional misconduct are still pending, including: how we define its different organizational forms; how it is instigated by the changing nature of professional boundaries; and how its consequences are responded to in professional organizations and society more widely.

AB - Professional misconduct has become seemingly ubiquitous in recent decades. However, to date there has been little sustained effort to theorize the phenomenon of professional misconduct, how this relates to professional organizations, and how this may contribute to broader patterns of corruption and wrongdoing. In response to this gap, in this contribution we discuss the theoretical and empirical implications of analyses that focus on the nature, antecedents and consequences of professional misconduct. In particular, we discuss how the nature of professional misconduct can be quite variegated and nuanced, how boundaries between and within professions can be either too weak or too strong and lead to professional misconduct, and how the consequence of professional misconduct can be less straightforward than normally assumed. We also illuminate how some important questions about professional misconduct are still pending, including: how we define its different organizational forms; how it is instigated by the changing nature of professional boundaries; and how its consequences are responded to in professional organizations and society more widely.

U2 - 10.1177/0018726718809400

DO - 10.1177/0018726718809400

M3 - Journal article

VL - 72

SP - 72

JO - Human Relations

JF - Human Relations

SN - 0018-7267

IS - 11

ER -