Internal professionals

Abstract

Set against the rising awareness in the world business community of the ‘burden’ of professional staffmg and set against the fmancial and strategic interests firms have in maintaining costly professional support staff at most efficient levels, it is surprising how little we know about the organization of professional support staff. The professional services sector has become a subject for increasing research but the internalized compeer of this sector is passed by. Without any knowledge about internal support structuration, however, the market for external business services may never be fully understood. Quite apart from this, internal professional support structuration is an important subject by itself.