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MicroFoundations of Institutional Change in the Career Structure of UK Elite Law Firms

Thomas J. Roulet

Lionel Paolella

Claudia Gabbioneta

Daniel Muzio

Microfoundations of Institutions

ISBN: 978-1-78769-124-7, eISBN: 978-1-78769-123-0

Publication date: 25 November 2019

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 microfoundation of institutions.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful for the feedback of the editor, Jost Sieweke, an anonymous reviewer, Michael Gill, and participants of the 2018 Oxford PSF conference and of the 2018 New Institutionalism Conference.

Citation

Roulet, T.J., Paolella, L., Gabbioneta, C. and Muzio, D. (2019), "MicroFoundations of Institutional Change in the Career Structure of UK Elite Law Firms", Haack, P., Sieweke, J. and Wessel, L. (Ed.) Microfoundations of Institutions (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 65A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 251-268. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065A025

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Emerald Publishing Limited