Career Resourcing and the Process of Professional Emergence
研究了个人如何通过职业资源获取过程创建新专业，基于卫生服务研究的历史档案，发现职业行动可通过积累或制度工作促成新专业的制度化。
We theorize a career resourcing process that explains how individuals can create a new profession. Using historical archives, we trace the emergence of health services research as a new research profession through the career actions of early practitioners. We find that career resourcing can lead to the institutionalization of a new profession by (a) a process of accretion, wherein people pursuing fulfilling careers generate resources that contribute to institutionalization, or (b) institutional work to deliberately build the professional community and infrastructure. We contribute to research on institutional change by specifying career actions that can lead to the institutionalization of a new profession, and by developing theory that accounts for the motivations and the means of individuals to act in ways that result in the institutionalization of a new profession.