Global ends, local means: Cross-national homogeneity in professional service firms
| Autor: | Javier Husillos, Claire Dambrin, Crawford Spence, Pablo Archel, Chris Carter |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Gestión de Empresas, Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Enpresen Kudeaketa Saila |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Performance appraisal and feedback
Strategy and Management Economic capital media_common.quotation_subject Comparative and cross-cultural HRM Personnel selection Organizational culture Context (language use) Market economy Promotion (rank) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Management of Technology and Innovation Economics media_common Job/employee attitudes business.industry General Social Sciences Public relations General partnership Capital (economics) Service (economics) HD28 Top management business |
| Zdroj: | Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra instname King's College London Spence, C, Dambrin, C, Carter, C, Husillos, J & Archel, P 2015, ' Global Ends, Local Means: cross-national homogeneity in professional service firms ', Human Relations, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 765-788 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726714541489 Academica-e: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra Universidad Pública de Navarra |
| ISSN: | 1741-282X 0018-7267 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0018726714541489 |
| Popis: | An expanding institutionalist literature on professional service firms (PSFs) emphasizes that these are ridden by contradictions, paradoxes and conflicting logics. More specifically, literature looking at PSFs in a global context has highlighted how these contradictions prevent firms from becoming truly global in nature. What it takes to make partner in the Big 4 is at the core of such interrogations because partners belong to global firms yet are promoted at the national level. We undertake a cross-country comparison of partner promotion processes in Big 4 PSFs in Canada, France, Spain and the UK. Synthesizing existing institutionalist work with Bourdieusian theory, our results suggest that PSFs in different countries resemble each other very closely in terms of the requirements demanded of their partners. Although heterogeneity can be observed in the way in which different forms of capital are converted into each other, we show there is an overall homogeneity in that economic capital hurdles are the most significant, if not the sole, set of criteria upon which considerations of partnership admissions are based. Pablo Archel and Javier Husillos received financial assistance from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (ref. ECO2012-33121). |
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