Environmental jolts and the professions: Multi-level institutional change processes in Emergency Medicine in Australia

了解专业在知识经济中是如何被打乱和改变的，是一项社会和经济上的当务之急，因为专业是知识体系的创造者和保管者。该项目通过研究环境冲击对专业的影响如何随着时间的推移通过机构，组织和个人层面之间的相互作用展开，来研究破坏和变化的过程。调查急诊医学新法规引起的震动，项目成果将有助于对多层次变化过程的新见解，因为它们在专业和组织内部发挥作用。研究结果还将为卫生保健管理、专业实践和政府决策提供信息。

Understanding how professions are being disrupted and changed in knowledge-based economies is a social and economic imperative because professions are the creators and custodians of knowledge systems. This project investigates the process of disruption and change by examining how the impact of an environmental jolt on a profession unfolds over time through interplay between institutional, organisational and individual levels. Investigating a jolt caused by new regulation in emergency medicine, project outcomes will contribute new insight into multi-level change processes as they play out within professions and inside organisations. The outcomes will also inform health care management, professional practice, and government policymaking.