Abstract:

The purpose of this article is to review the literature on professions, the definition of the profession, the process of professionalization, and professionalism. The authors have reviewed the literature of the past decade, the results of which confirm authors’ opinion that the topic of definition is not a priority interest of today's researchers. On the contrary, current research explores the issues related to the model development in the context of professionally managed companies (PMC) and mutations of professions in original professional bureaucracies. The authors claim that the state of today's knowledge would make it possible to develop a definition. Structurally, the phenomenon of the profession is very well defined, as well as the focus of professional work, the work carried out within the given profession, is described to a high degree of detail. The solution might be a Social Network Analysis.