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New Career Models in UK Professional Service Firms: From Up-or-Out to Up-and-Going Nowhere?
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In this paper, we empirically examine how professional service firms are adapting their promotion and career models to new market and institutional pressures, without losing the benefits of the traditional up-or-out tournament. Based on an in-depth qualitative study of 10 large UK based law firms we find that most of these firms do not have a formal up-or-out policy but that the up-or-out rule operates in practice. We also find that most firms have introduced alternative roles and a novel car...
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- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
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- 2011-10-28
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- 2010
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