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The Collegial Phenomenon: The Social Mechanisms of Cooperation Among Peers in a Corporate Law Partnership

Autor Emmanuel Lazega
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 sep 2001
Organizations performing non-routine, innovative, often knowledge- intensive tasks - for example professional partnerships - need a rather flat, collegial, and non - bureaucratic structure. This book examines cooperation among partners in a US corporate law firm and provides a grounded theory of collective action among rival peers, or collegiality. It is first network study of such a frim. Members (partners and associates) are portrayed as independent entrepreneurs who build social niches in their organization and cultivate status competition among themselves. This behaviour allows them to fulfil their commitment to an extremely constraining partnership agreement and generates informal social mechanisms (bounded solidarity, lateral control, oligarchic regualtion) that help a flat organization govern itself: maintain individual performance, even for tenured partners; capitalize knowledge and control quality; monitor and sanction opportunistic free-riding; solve the 'too many chefs' problem; balance the powers of rainmakers and schedulers; and integrate the firm in spite of many centrifugal forces.These mechanisms and the solutions they provide are examined using a broadly-conceived structural approach combining theory-driven network analysis, ethnography of task forces performing knowledge-intensive work, and analysis of management and internal politics in the firm. Emmanuel Lazega presents a theory of the collegial organization which generalizes its results to all kinds of partnerships, larger multinational professional services firms, and collegial pockets in flattening bureaucracies alike.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199242726
ISBN-10: 0199242720
Pagini: 358
Ilustrații: 14 figures and nymerous tables
Dimensiuni: 164 x 242 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Lazega's book is original and insightful through his rich field-specific knowledge, a theoretically refined and undogmatic approach, and through sophisiticated data collection and analysis. This book is clearly written.
The lessons Lazega draws are novel and important ... Identifying the myriad ways in which relations of production affect the output of the knowledge workers on whom our prosperity and progress depend in this post-industrial world is a vital task, to which Emmanuel Lazega has made valuable contributions.
'It is a remarkable piece of scholarship, both in its theoretical development and in its execution'

Notă biografică

Emmanuel Lazega is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lille I, France. Previous positions have included Assistant Professor at the University of Versailles (1993-1999); Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University (1988-1991); and Researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University (1986-1988)