Up or Aside? Micro-foundations of Institutional Change in the Career Structure of UK Elite Law Firms

Thomas J. Roulet; Lionel Paolella; Claudia Gabbioneta; Daniel Muzio

doi:10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065A025

Up or Aside? Micro-foundations of Institutional Change in the Career Structure of UK Elite Law Firms

Thomas J. Roulet, Lionel Paolella, Claudia Gabbioneta, Daniel Muzio

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Abstract

The authors investigate an institutional change as the co-occurrence of deinstitutionalization and institutionalization, while accounting for its determinants
at multiple levels of analysis to further our understanding of how individual
characteristics aggregated at the organizational level and organizational characteristics together account for the erosion and emergence of practices within
the field. The authors empirically explore this question in a multilevel dataset
of UK law firms and their employees, looking in particular at how the practice
of equity partnership faded away and how non-equity partnership emerged as
a new practice. The results contribute to the literature on institutional change
and the micro-foundation of institutions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Publisher	Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Pages	251-268
Number of pages	18
Volume	65A
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065A025
Publication status	Published - 25 Nov 2019

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Name	Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Volume	65B
ISSN (Print)	0733-558X

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Deinstitutionalization
Equity partnership
Institutional change
Institutionalization
Law firms
Microfoundations of institutions

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Roulet, T. J., Paolella, L., Gabbioneta, C., & Muzio, D. (2019). Up or Aside? Micro-foundations of Institutional Change in the Career Structure of UK Elite Law Firms. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations (Vol. 65A, pp. 251-268). (Research in the Sociology of Organizations; Vol. 65B). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065A025

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