Global ends, local means: cross-national homogeneity in professional service firms
| dc.contributor.author | Spence, Crawford | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dambrin, Claire | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carter, Chris | |
| dc.contributor.author | Husillos Carques, Francisco Javier | |
| dc.contributor.author | Archel Domench, Pablo | |
| dc.contributor.department | Gestión de Empresas | es_ES |
| dc.contributor.department | Enpresen Kudeaketa | eu |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-16T11:21:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-16T11:21:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Pablo Archel and Javier Husillos received financial assistance from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (ref. ECO2012-33121). | en |
| dc.format.extent | 49 p. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Spence C, Dambrin C, Carter C, Husillos J, Archel P. Global ends, local means: Cross-national homogeneity in professional service firms. Human Relations. 2015;68(5):765-788. doi:10.1177/0018726714541489 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0018726714541489 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1741-282X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/38098 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.publisher | SAGE | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Human Relations, 2015, 68(5), 765-788 | en |
| dc.relation.projectID | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//ECO2012-33121/ES/ | |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726714541489 | |
| dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2015. Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav | en |
| dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.subject | Comparative and cross-cultural HRM | en |
| dc.subject | Job/employee attitudes | en |
| dc.subject | Organizational culture | en |
| dc.subject | Performance appraisal and feedback | en |
| dc.subject | Personnel selection | en |
| dc.subject | Top management | en |
| dc.title | Global ends, local means: cross-national homogeneity in professional service firms | en |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion | |
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