> If you are a licensed professional and your profession doesn't own the board, what often ends up happening is competing professions under the board sabotage e

> If you are a licensed professional and your profession doesn't own the board, what often ends up happening is competing professions under the board sabotage each other. From The System of Professions: > By focusing on parallels in organizational development, students of the professions lost sight of a fundamental fact of professional life—interprofessional competition. Control of knowledge and its application means dominating outsiders who attack that control. Control without competition is trivial. Study of organizational forms can indeed show how certain occupations control their knowledge and its application. But it cannot tell why those forms emerge when they do or why they sometimes succeed and sometimes fail. Only the study of competition can accomplish that.