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James Faulconbridge - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the global Professional Service Firm one Firm models versus italian distant institutionalised practices
Social Science Research Network, 2013Co-Authors: Daniel Muzio, James FaulconbridgeAbstract:Through a historical case study of the internationalization of large English law Firms in Italy, this paper uses Scott’s three pillars approach (2005) to look at how local institutions constrain and mediate the strategies and practices of Professional Services Firms (PSFs). In doing so, it corrects the economic bias in the growing body of literature on the internationalization of PSFs by stressing how local regulations, norms and cultural frameworks affect the reproduction of home country practices, such as the one Firm model pursued by large English law Firms, in host-country jurisdictions. The paper also extends existing work on institutional duality (Kostova, 1999, Kostova and Roth, 2002) by developing a fine grained, micro level analysis which emphasizes the connections between institutions and practices. This is crucial, we contend, since the difficulties encountered by PSFs (and multinationals more generally) in their internationalization do not result from collisions between home- and host-country institutional structures per se, but between the diverse practices generated by distant institutional environments.
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the global Professional Service Firm one Firm models versus italian distant institutionalized practices
Organization Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Daniel Muzio, James FaulconbridgeAbstract:Through a historical case study of the internationalization of large English law Firms into Italy, this paper uses Scott’s (2005) three pillars approach to look at how local institutions constrain and mediate the strategies and practices of global Professional Services Firms. In doing so, it corrects the economic bias in the growing body of literature on the internationalization of PSFs by stressing how local regulations, norms and cultural frameworks affect the reproduction of home country practices, such as the one Firm model pursued by large English law Firms, in host-country jurisdictions. The paper also extends existing work on institutional duality (Kostova, 1999, Kostova & Roth, 2002) by developing a fine-grained, micro-level analysis which emphasizes the connections between institutions and practices. This is crucial, we contend, since the difficulties encountered by PSFs (and multinationals more generally) in their internationalization do not result from collisions between home- and host-country ...
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Exploring the Role of Professional Associations in Collective Learning in London and New York's Advertising and Law Professional-Service-Firm Clusters
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008Co-Authors: James FaulconbridgeAbstract:The value of regional economies for collective learning has been reported by numerous scholars. However often work has been criticised for lacking analytical clarity and failing to explore the architectures of collective learning and the role of the knowledge produced in making Firms in a cluster economy successful. This paper engages with these problematics and investigates how collective learning is facilitated in the advertising and law Professional Service Firm clusters in London and New York. It explores the role of Professional associations and investigates how they mediate a collective learning process in each city. It argues that Professional associations seed urban communities of practice that emerge outside of the formal activities of Professional associations. In these communities individual with shared interests in advertising and law learn from one-another and are therefore able to adapt and evolve one-another approaches to common industry challenges. The paper suggests this is another form of the variation Marshall highlighted in relation to cluster-based collective learning. The paper also shows how the collective learning process is affected by the presence, absence and strength of an institutional thickness. It is therefore argued that a richer understanding of institutional affects is needed in relation to CL.
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exploring the role of Professional associations in collective learning in london and new york s advertising and law Professional Service Firm clusters
Environment and Planning A, 2007Co-Authors: James FaulconbridgeAbstract:The value of regional economies for collective learning has been reported by numerous scholars. However, often their work has been criticised for lacking analytical clarity and failing to explore the architectures of collective learning and the role of the knowledge produced in making Firms in a cluster economy successful. In this paper I engage with these problematics and investigate how collective learning is facilitated in the advertising and law Professional-Service-Firm clusters in London and New York. I explore the role of Professional associations and investigate how they mediate a collective-learning process in each city. I argue that Professional associations seed urban communities of practice that emerge outside of the formal activities of Professional associations. In these communities individuals with shared interests in advertising and law learn from one another and are therefore able to adapt and evolve one-another's approaches to common industry challenges. I suggest this is another form of...
Andrew Von Nordenflycht - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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what is a Professional Service Firm towards a theory and taxonomy of knowledge intensive Firms
Social Science Research Network, 2010Co-Authors: Andrew Von NordenflychtAbstract:A growing literature on Professional Service Firms is hindered by the ambiguity of its central concept, which leads to an overly-narrow empirical focus and to over-generalizations that may tout inefficiencies as best practice. To address this ambiguity, I develop a theory of the distinctive characteristics of Professional Service Firms and their organizational implications. I identify three distinctive characteristics--knowledge intensity, low capital intensity, and Professionalized workforce - with which I propose a taxonomy of four types of knowledge intensive Firms - Classic PSFs, Professional Campuses, Neo-PSFs, and Technology Developers - whose varying degrees of Professional Service intensity predict different organizational features. The analysis highlights the danger of conflating the implications of Professionalization with those of knowledge intensity and calls for comparative research across a wider range of Professional Services.
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what is a Professional Service Firm toward a theory and taxonomy of knowledge intensive Firms
Academy of Management Review, 2010Co-Authors: Andrew Von NordenflychtAbstract:I develop a theory of the distinctive characteristics of Professional Service Firms and their organizational implications. I identify three distinctive characteristics—knowledge intensity, low capital intensity, and a Professionalized workforce—with which I propose a taxonomy of four types of knowledge-intensive Firms whose varying degrees of Professional Service intensity generate different organizational outcomes. The analysis highlights the danger of conflating the implications of Professionalization with those of knowledge intensity and calls for comparative research across a wider range of Professional Services.
Daniel Muzio - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the global Professional Service Firm one Firm models versus italian distant institutionalised practices
Social Science Research Network, 2013Co-Authors: Daniel Muzio, James FaulconbridgeAbstract:Through a historical case study of the internationalization of large English law Firms in Italy, this paper uses Scott’s three pillars approach (2005) to look at how local institutions constrain and mediate the strategies and practices of Professional Services Firms (PSFs). In doing so, it corrects the economic bias in the growing body of literature on the internationalization of PSFs by stressing how local regulations, norms and cultural frameworks affect the reproduction of home country practices, such as the one Firm model pursued by large English law Firms, in host-country jurisdictions. The paper also extends existing work on institutional duality (Kostova, 1999, Kostova and Roth, 2002) by developing a fine grained, micro level analysis which emphasizes the connections between institutions and practices. This is crucial, we contend, since the difficulties encountered by PSFs (and multinationals more generally) in their internationalization do not result from collisions between home- and host-country institutional structures per se, but between the diverse practices generated by distant institutional environments.
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the global Professional Service Firm one Firm models versus italian distant institutionalized practices
Organization Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Daniel Muzio, James FaulconbridgeAbstract:Through a historical case study of the internationalization of large English law Firms into Italy, this paper uses Scott’s (2005) three pillars approach to look at how local institutions constrain and mediate the strategies and practices of global Professional Services Firms. In doing so, it corrects the economic bias in the growing body of literature on the internationalization of PSFs by stressing how local regulations, norms and cultural frameworks affect the reproduction of home country practices, such as the one Firm model pursued by large English law Firms, in host-country jurisdictions. The paper also extends existing work on institutional duality (Kostova, 1999, Kostova & Roth, 2002) by developing a fine-grained, micro-level analysis which emphasizes the connections between institutions and practices. This is crucial, we contend, since the difficulties encountered by PSFs (and multinationals more generally) in their internationalization do not result from collisions between home- and host-country ...
Michelle Rogan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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managerial networks and exploration in a Professional Service Firm
Organization Studies, 2017Co-Authors: Michelle Rogan, Marie Louise MorsAbstract:A Firm’s growth and survival depends on the ability of its managers to explore for new business and knowledge; yet, exploration is challenging for most large, established Firms. Extending prior research into networks and exploration, we propose that a key characteristic of managers’ external networks – the extent to which their networks include relationships built using predominately individual rather than Firm resources – is positively related to managers’ abilities to explore for new business and knowledge in large Firms. We propose that networks with more individual ties provide more diverse knowledge, enable greater autonomy and ease access to resources from contacts, hence facilitating exploration. Analysis of an original dataset of external networks of 77 senior managers in a large global consulting Firm provides support for our arguments. We find that individual ties are positively related to exploration and, furthermore, that the positive (negative) relationship between sparse (dense) networks and...
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managerial networks and exploration in a Professional Service Firm
Social Science Research Network, 2016Co-Authors: Michelle Rogan, Louise MorsAbstract:A Firm's growth and survival depends on the ability of its managers to explore for new business and knowledge; yet, exploration is challenging for most large, established Firms. Extending prior research into networks and exploration, we propose that a key characteristic of managers' external networks – the extent to which their networks include relationships built using predominately individual rather than Firm resources – is positively related to managers' abilities to explore for new business and knowledge in large Firms. We propose that networks with more individual ties provide more diverse knowledge, enable greater autonomy, and ease access to resources from contacts; hence facilitating exploration. Analysis of an original dataset of external networks of 77 senior managers in a large global consulting Firm provides support for our arguments. We find that individual ties are positively related to exploration and furthermore, that the positive (negative) relationship between sparse (dense) networks and exploration increases with the number of individual ties in managers' networks.
Paul Scifleet - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Enterprise Social Networking in Knowledge-intensive Work Practices : A Case Study in a Professional Service Firm
23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 2012Co-Authors: Kai Riemer, Paul ScifleetAbstract:Social media technologies are making fast inroads into organisations. In the context of knowledge-intensive work the propositions of improved communication, information sharing and user involvement seem particularly prom- ising. We study the phenomenon of Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) in the context of Professional Service Firms (PSF). Our case study investigates emerging knowledge work practices on the ESN platform Yammer within Deloitte Australia. We perform a genre analysis of communication data and uncover a set of emerging practices. We reflect on our results in the context of the knowledge-intensive nature of Professional Service work. We find that Yammer in the case company has become 1) an information-sharing channel, 2) a space for crowdsourcing ideas, 3) a place for finding expertise and solving problems and 4) a conversation medium for context and relationship building. We conclude by positioning ESN in the well-known 3-C model for classifying collaborative ICT.
