Betrayal as Market Barrier: Identity-Based Limits to Diversification among High-Status Corporate Law Firms

Why are some diversified market identities problematic but others are not? We examine this question in the context of high-status corporate law firms, which often diversify into one low-status area of work—family law (FL)—but face a barrier (strong disapproval from existing clients) that prevents di...

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Main Authors: Phillips, Damon J., Turco, Catherine, Zuckerman Sivan, Ezra W.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88139
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0216-8689
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6271-0708