The collegial phenomenon: the social mechanisms of cooperation among peers in a corporate law partnership
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-333) and indexes |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 346 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0199242720 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures x
List of Tables xi
Introduction 1
The Collegial Organization and its Generic Social Mechanisms 2
A Broadly Conceived Structural Approach 4
Outline of the Book 10
Beyond Embeddedness Studies of Knowledge Intensive Firms 16
1. A Structural Theory of Collective Action among Peers 19
A Contractual Basis: The Example of Partnerships as an
Institutional Form 19
Beyond Contracts: The Neo Weberian Approach to Collegial
Organizations 22
Behavioural Assumptions and Resulting Social Mechanisms 24
Collegial Organizations as Production and Exchange Systems 33
Collegial Organizations as Lateral Control Regimes 41
Collegial Organizations and the Regulatory Mechanism 45
2. Spencer, Grace Robbins 52
Corporate Law Firms: An Institutional Form 52
What do Corporate Lawyers Do? 54
Division of Work and Interdependence 56
Spencer, Grace Robbins 58
SG R in its Context: The Market for Legal Services in the Region 61
SG R s Partnership Agreement 63
Informal Rules 72
The Example of Departmentalization 74
Relations between Offices in a Multi City Firm 75
Workflow: Intake and Assignments 78
Associate Training, Workflow, and Career 81
Built in Pressures to Grow and Strategic Planning 84
Elusive Committees and Selected Members with Status 87
3. Niches and Status in the Firm: A Specific Exchange System 91
Looking at the Production Structure as a Complex Exchange System 91
Three Production Resources: Co workers Goodwill,
Advice, and Friendship 93
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Long term Individual Interests, Identifications,
and Bounded Solidarity 99
Niches in the Organizational Exchange System:
A View at the Structural Level 101
Status in the Organizational Exchange System: Niches and Power 106
Confirming the Existence of Niches: A View at the Dyadic Level 114
The Firm as a Work Related Generalized Exchange System 124
Desolidarization of Associates 127
4. Economic Performance and Quality Control 132
Economic Performance: What Makes Tenured Partners Work? 133
Professional Performance: Quality Control for
Knowledge Intensive Organizations 149
Informally Distributed Knowledge and Competition for
the Authority to Know 160
Advice Flows, Distribution, and Concentration of
Professional Authority 162
Distributed Knowledge and Economic Performance 166
Short Cuts for Competitive Advantage among Associates 167
5. Too Many Chefs? 170
Unbounded Status Auctions and the Collegial Blend of Relationships 170
Economic Mitigation of Status Competition 171
Cultivating and Mitigating Status Competition:
The Blending Process 173
Social Mitigation of Status Competition:
A Multiplex Social Mechanism 175
The Interplay of Resources among Members 175
The Social Structure of Barter 180
6. Organizational Integration: A Montesquieu Structure 182
Centrifugal Forces and Cross Boundary Exchanges: Relational Stitches 182
Two Forms of Solidarity: Welfare and Patronage in
Managing Workflow 185
Schedulers and Rainmakers 187
Teaming Up and Out? 193
RED Sets out of Niches: A Montesquieu Structure 194
Status Heterogeneity and the Balance of Powers among Oligarchs
in Collegial Structures 199
7. Pressuring Partners Back to Good Order: A Lateral Control Regime 201
Ethnographic Evidence of Lateral Sanctioning 203
A Structural View on the Second Order Free rider Problem 205
Contents ix
Methodology 206
Conceptions of how Expectations Converge on
Levers and on Targets 209
Social Niches and Lateral Control 211
Protectors of the Common Good: Status and Lateral Control 227
Leverage Styles: The Importance of Seniority for Collective
Responsibility 238
The Social Structure of Collective Responsibility 239
8. Multi Status Oligarchs and the Negotiation of Precarious Values 242
Policy Issues and Underlying Value Orientations 243
Polarization of Policy Preferences and Status Quo Tbl
Formal and Informal Regulatory Deliberations 255
The Oligarchs Framing Deliberation on Precarious Values 261
Status Inconsistency and Status Quo:
Stifled Entrepreneurial Values 263
The Structural Basis of Normative Order 265
Conclusion 267
The Scope of the Collegial Form 267
Holding One s Own in the Company of Peers 270
The Ethical Problem of Conflicts of Interests 273
Appendices 276
A. Fieldwork and Questionnaire 276
B. Density Tables for Figure 3.1 across the Co Workers , Advice, and
Friendship Networks of all the Lawyers in the Firm 279
C. Definition of Variables Presented in Table 3.3 281
D. Professional Authority and the Distribution of the Authority to Know 282
E. Presentation of Multirelational p* Models 286
F. A Montesquieu Structure: Spotting RED ( Ready for Easy Defection ) Subsets 288
G. Overall Distribution of the Significant Effects on Each Respondent s
Choices of Levers Analysed Separately in Chapter 7 291
H. Specialization of the Main Levers: Procedure Followed to
Construct Figure 7.6 293
I. Who Guards the Guardians? Procedure Used to Build Figure 7.7 295
J. Partners Influence Network: Density Table for Figure 8.2 297
Notes 299
References 319
Name Index 335
Subject Index 338
List of Figures
3.1. Overall view of transfers and exchanges of resources in the firm:
The co workers , advice, and friendship networks
superimposed 103
3.2. Configurations corresponding to p* model parameters 125
4.1. Advice seeking in the firm 163
6.1. Relational stitches: Strong ties cross cutting internal
boundaries in the firm 184
6.2. Access to cooperative colleagues: A Montesquieu structure 195
7.1. Partner 35 s expectations concerning leverage in the firm 212
7.2. Partner 33 s expectations concerning leverage in the firm 213
7.3. Partner 20 s expectations concerning leverage in the firm 214
7.4. Partner 18 s expectations concerning leverage in the firm 228
7.5. Partner 32 s expectations concerning leverage in the firm 229
7.6. Specialization of main sanctioners 232
7.7. Who guards the guardians? 237
8.1. Polarization of policy preferences among partners 252
8.2. Attention allocation in partnership meetings 259
List of Tables
3.1. Correlations between indicators of status in the firm 106
3.2. Distribution of members per variable 118
3.3. p2 estimates of the effect of various characteristics of partners
and associates on their selections of co workers, advisers,
and friends 119
3.4. Relational substructures in the firm: Pseudolikelihood estimates
for three univariate p* models 126
4.1. Variables explaining economic performance 140
4.2. The importance of Blau ties: Correlation table for performance
measurements in 1990 and most frequent types of combination of
ties among dyads of actors 143
5.1. Multiplexity of ties in the firm: Parameter estimates for
final multivariate p* model 177
7.1. Effects of selected dimensions of firm formal structure
on the choices of levers 216
7.2. An example of the effects of an individual partner s
pre existing ties on his choices of levers: The case of Partner 14 218
7.3. Selection of levers: Conditions under which respondents
invest their own relational capital to exercise lateral
control for the common good 219
7.4. Table of odds ratios of the nine sub tables of Table 7.3 220
7.5. Logit analysis of the effect of relationships between
respondents and targets and between targets and
levers on respondents choices of levers among
their own friends, co workers, and advisers 221
7.6. Distribution of the different types of two step control
paths, according to the type of tie that is used in each step 223
7.7. Log linear modelling of ties between respondents, targets,
and levers 226
7.8. Effect of partners importance in the firm on the number
of times they are chosen as levers 234
8.1. Correlations between dimensions of status among partners 262
8.2. Correlations between having one or several forms of
inconsistent dimensions of status and preferences with
regard to changes in management policies 263
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