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| Tekijä: | Ackroyd, S. Muzio, D. |
| Otsikko: | The reconstructed professional firm: explaining change in English legal practices |
| Lehti: | Organization Studies
2007 : VOL. 28:5, p. 729-747 |
| Asiasana: | professional organizations |
| Vapaa asiasana: | legal profession |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The paper outlines changes in the internal division of labour in English law firms. It is argued that in response to external threats, especially the growth in the numbers of qualified recruits, the elite of the profession has reworked professional closure. A shift towards controlling conditions of work and promotion has produced effects: it has sustained the remuneration and status of the professional elite of partners, but has also allowed the assimilation of large numbers of recruits to the profession, and the expansion in the size of legal firms, as well as supporting their continued profitability. It is suggested that engagement with management by the professional elite of legal firms in this study is at best rhetorical and contemporary change in English law firm is better understood as the emergence of a reconstructed professional firm based on a new professional closure regime. |
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