Promotion to Partner in Professional Service Firms
A shift away from "up-or-out," the conventional promotion system in professional service firms, has been explained as part of a wider set of changes in internal labor market arrangements and management methods. This is investigated empirically in a sample of large partnerships in one profe...
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| description | A shift away from "up-or-out," the conventional promotion system in professional service firms, has been explained as part of a wider set of changes in internal labor market arrangements and management methods. This is investigated empirically in a sample of large partnerships in one profession. Up-or-out was used by less than one-third of the sample of firms but is common among the largest firms. Internal reforms to the professional firm do not fully explain its rarity; up-or-out appears to be adaptable to new forms of management and internal labor market policies. This raises a number of questions about the utility of theoretical explanations of how professional service firms work or are changing. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e3ec2e62-5ca7-4215-a996-6febe826cd902022-03-27T10:12:44ZPromotion to Partner in Professional Service FirmsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e3ec2e62-5ca7-4215-a996-6febe826cd90Saïd Business School - Eureka1998Morris, TPinnington, AA shift away from "up-or-out," the conventional promotion system in professional service firms, has been explained as part of a wider set of changes in internal labor market arrangements and management methods. This is investigated empirically in a sample of large partnerships in one profession. Up-or-out was used by less than one-third of the sample of firms but is common among the largest firms. Internal reforms to the professional firm do not fully explain its rarity; up-or-out appears to be adaptable to new forms of management and internal labor market policies. This raises a number of questions about the utility of theoretical explanations of how professional service firms work or are changing. |
| spellingShingle | Morris, T Pinnington, A Promotion to Partner in Professional Service Firms |
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| title_short | Promotion to Partner in Professional Service Firms |
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