Abstract
In Chapter 1 it was argued that today many organizational, managerial and administrative services are produced outside the organizations that consume them. This is seen by Burrel (1996) and Scarbrough (1996) as a general trend of our modern times. Burrel also argues that old professions, such as physicians, are challenged by new types of experts whose expertise is related more to political ideologies than to abstract expert systems. Burrel's argument draws attention to how we might look upon the role of external suppliers of MAS and how the expertise that carry along from organization to organization is constructed. If upcoming new types of experts are being given more power to set the agenda, forcing older traditional professions into the background, this means that the meaning of expert power is changing or at least being contested.