Abstract:
Business rescue practitioners (BRPs) are subject to many allegations of abuse and, therefore, professional accreditation
has become a pre-requisite. The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) licensing is linked to multiple
professional bodies’ knowledge and practices but is not generic. This study was guided by one key question: What is BRPs’
accreditation’s current state in a multiple professional body occupation? We used data mapped to scholarly and documented
policy sources, categorized results from extensive reading, and integrated critical constructs (after the deconstruction of
concepts) to yield a conceptual framework to develop a comprehensive understanding of professional accreditation. The
results confirm the existence of a legal framework and institutional arrangements that are not coherently applied because of
the absence of a professional accreditation framework (PAF). The proposed conceptual framework captures the concepts
of the business rescue domain, professionalism, competency, accreditation, and definition of key terms to provide an
interpretive approach to the BRPs’ accreditation reality resulting in a PAF based on the integration of BRP tasks and services
and accreditation, competency, and professionalism.
