Institutional legacies and firm dynamics: The growth and internationalization of UK and German law firms

Organization Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1765-1785

  Morgan, Glenn ^a,c,d   Quack, Sigrid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Institutional change; Legal systems; Multinational firms; National business systems; Professional service firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144436659     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840605059156     Document Type: Review

References (69)

1. Abel, Richard 1994 Transnational law practice'. Case Western Reserve Law Review 44: 737-870.
2. Abel, Richard, and Philip Lewis editors 1988 Lawyers in society. Vol. 2. Berkeley: University of California Press.
3. Amable, Bruno 2003 The diversity of modern capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4. Beaverstock, Jonathan, Michael Hoyler, Kathryn Pain, and Peter Taylor 2001 Comparing London and Frankfurt as world cities: A relational study of contemporary urban change. London: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society.
5. Beaverstock, Jonathan, Richard Smith, and Peter Taylor 1999 "The long arm of the law: London's law firms in a globalising world economy'. Environment and Planning A. 3110: 1857-1876.
6. Boulanger, Christian editor 2002 Recht in der Transformation. Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag.
7. Braithwaite, John, and Paul Drahos 2000 Global business regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
8. Brock, David, Michael Powell, and Bob Hinings 1999 Restructuring the professional organization. London: Routledge.
9. Bude, Heinz, and Bernd Greiner editors 1999 Westbindungen. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition.
10. Casper, Steven 2000 'Institutional adaptiveness, technology policy, and the diffusion of business models: The case of German biotechnology'. Organization Studies 5: 887-914.
11. Casper, Steven 2001 'The legal framework for corporate governance: The influence of contract law on company strategies in Germany and the United States' in Varieties of capitalism. Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (eds), 387-416. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
12. Crouch, Colin 2005 'Complementarity and fit in the study of comparative capitalisms' in Changing capitalisms? Intérnationalisation, institutional change and systems of economic organization. Glenn Morgan, Richard Whitley, and Eli Moen (eds), 167-190. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
13. Cullen-Mandikos, Bridget, and Alan MacPherson 2002 'U.S. foreign direct investment in the London legal market'. Professional Geographer 54/4: 491-499.
14. Dezalay, Yves 1990 'The big bang and the law: The internationalization and restructuration of the legal field' in Global culture: Nationalism, globalization and modernity. Mike Featherstone (ed.), 279-294. London: Sage.
15. Dezalay, Yves, and Bryant Garth 2002 The internationalization of palace wars. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
16. Djelic, Marie-Laure 1998 Exporting the American model. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
17. Djelic, Marie-Laure, and Sigrid Quack editors 2003 Globalization and institutions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
18. Djelic, Marie-Laure, and Sigrid Quack 2005 'Rethinking path dependency: The crooked path of institutional change in post-war Germany' in Changing capitalisms? Intérnationalisation, institutional change and systems of economic organization. Glenn Morgan, Richard Whitley, and Eli Moen (eds), 137-166. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
19. Fairclough, Samantha 2005 'Institutionalization and interorganizational cognition: Two perspectives on the development and persistence of the 'magic circle' of United Kingdom law firms'. Paper presented at 21st EGOS Colloquium, Berlin, July.
20. Flood, John 1989 'Megalaw in the U.K.: Professionalism or corporatism? A preliminary report'. Indiana Law Journal 64: 569-592.
21. Flood, John 1996 'Megalawyering in the global order: The cultural, social and economic transformation of global legal practice'. International Journal of the Legal Profession 31/2: 169-213.
22. Flood, John 1999 'Professionals organizing professionals. Comparing the logic of United States and United Kingdom law practice' in Restructuring the Professional Organization. David Brock, Michael Powell, and C. R. (Bob) Hinings (eds), 154-182. London: Routledge.
23. Greenwood, Royston, and Laura Empson 2003 "The professional partnership: Relic or exemplary form of governance?' Organization Studies 24/6: 909-934.
24. Hall, Peter, and David Soskice editors 2001 Varieties of capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
25. Halliday, Terence, and Lucien Karpik editors 1998 Lawyers and the rise of western political liberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
26. Hartmann, Michael 1995 'Bank lawyers. A professional group holding the reins of power' in Professional competition and professional power. Yves Dezalay, David Sugarman, and Pierre Bourdieu (eds), 205-225. London: Routledge.
27. Höland, Armin 1996 'The evolution of law in central and eastern Europe: Are we witnessing a renaissance of law and development?' in European Legal Cultures. Volkmar Gessner, Armin Höland, and Csaba Varga (eds), 482-484. Aldershot: Dartmouth.
28. Johnson, Terry 1972 Professions and power. London: Macmillan.
29. Kaelble, Hartmut and Jürgen Schriewer editors 2003 Vergleich und Transfer. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
30. Kagan, Robert 1996 'American lawyers, legal culture, and adversarial legalism' in Legal culture and the legal profession. Lawrence Friedman and Harry N. Scheiber (eds), 7-51. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
31. Karpik, Lucien 1999 French lawyers: A study in collective action 1274-1994. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
32. Kolvenbach, Walter 1979 'Die Tätigkeit der Syndikusanwälte im Unternehmen und ihre Zusammenarbeit mit frei praktizierenden Anwälten'. Juristenzeitung 14/14: 458-462.
33. Koopmans, Thijmen 1991 The birth of European law. At the crossroads of legal traditions'. American Journal of Comparative Law XXXIX(3): 493-507.
34. Kronstein, Heinrich 1968 Briefe an einen jungen Deutschen. München: Beck.
35. Kynaston, David 1994 The City of London Vol. 1: A world of its own 1815-1890. London: Chatto and Windus.
36. Kynaston, David 1996 The City of London Vol. II: Golden Years 1890-1914. London: Pimlico.
37. Kynaston, David 1999 The City of London Vol. III: Illusions of gold 1914-1945. London: Pimlico.
38. Kynaston, David 2001 The City of London Vol. IV: A club no more 1945-2000. London: Pimlico.
39. Lace, Susanne 2001 'Mergers, mergers everywhere: Constructing the global law firm in Germany' in Legal professions: Work, structure and organisation. Jerry Van Hoy (ed.), 51-75. Amsterdam: JAI Press.
40. Lo, Vivien 1999 Der M & A-Markt in Deutschland. Arbeitsbericht Nr. 3 SFB 403 AB-99: 24. Frankfurt am Main.
41. McClelland, Charles E. 1991 The German experience of professionalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
42. Morgan, Glenn 2005 'Institutional complementarities, path dependency and the dynamics of firms' in Changing capitalisms? Intérnationalisation, institutional change and systems of economic organization. Glenn Morgan, Richard Whitley, and Eli Moen (eds), 415-446 Oxford: Oxford University Press.
43. Morgan, Glenn, and Izumi Kubo 2005 'Beyond path dependency? Constructing new models for institutional change: The case of capital markets in Japan'. Socio-Economic Review 3/1: 55-82.
44. Morgan, Glenn, and Sigrid Quack 2000 'Confidence and confidentiality: The social construction of performance standards in banking' in National capitalisms, global competition and economic performance. Sigrid Quack, Glenn Morgan, and Richard Whitley (eds), 131-158. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
45. Morgan, Glenn, and Sigrid Quack 2005 'Internationalization and capability development in professional service firms' in Changing capitalisms? Intérnationalisation, institutional change and systems of economic organization. Glenn Morgan, Richard Whitley and Eli Moen (eds). 277-311 Oxford: Oxford University Press.
46. Morgan, Glenn, Richard Whitley, and Eli Moen editors 2005 Changing capitalisms? Intérnationalisation, institutional change and systems of economic organization Oxford: Oxford University Press.
47. Osiel, Mark J. 1990 'Lawyers as monopolists, aristocrats and entrepreneurs'. Harvard Law Review 1037: 2009-2066.
48. Quack, Sigrid 2003 'Internationale Wirtshcaftskanzeleien im Spannungsfeld von Wandel und Kontinuitat des Rechts' in Modelltransfer in Multinationalen Unternehmen. Christoph Dorrenbächer (ed.), 173-198. Berlin: Sigma.
49. Quack, Sigrid, and Marie-Laure Djelic 2005 'Adaptation, recombination, and reinforcement: The story of antitrust and competition law in Germany and Europe' in Beyond continuity. Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen (eds), 255-281. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
50. Quack, Sigrid, Glenn Morgan, and Richard Whitley editors 2000 National capitalisms, global competition and economic performance. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
51. Rogowski, Ralf 1994 'Auditors and lawyers in Germany: Co-evolution, not competition'. International Journal of the Legal Profession 1/1: 13-29.
52. Rogowski, Ralf 1995 'German corporate lawyers. Social closure in autopoietic perspective' in Professional competition and professional power. Yves Dezalay, David Sugarman, and Pierre Bourdieu (eds), 114-135. London: Routledge.
53. Rüeschemeyer, Dietrich 1973 Lawyers and their society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
54. Rüeschemeyer, Dietrich 1997 'State, capitalism, and the organization of legal counsel: Examining an extreme case - the Prussian bar, 1700-1914' in Lawyers and the rise of western political liberalism. Terence C. Halliday and Lucien Karpik (eds), 207-227. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
55. Schemer, Karl O. 1997 Advokaten Revolutionäre Anwäte. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke.
56. Schmidt, Vivien 2002 The futures of European capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
57. Siegrist, Hannes 1996 Advokat, Bürger und Staat. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.
58. Sorge, Arndt 2005 The global and the local. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
59. Spar, Deborah 1997 'Lawyers abroad: The internationalization of legal practice'. California Management Review 19/3: 8-28.
60. Stoller, Christopher 2000 Mega-lawyering in Europa. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
61. Streeck, Wolfgang, and Kathleen Thelen editors 2005 Beyond continuity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
62. Sugarman, David 1983 'Law, economy and the state in England, 1750-1914: Some major issues' in Legality, ideology and the state. David Sugarman (ed.), 213-266. London, New York: Academic Press.
63. Teubner, Gunther 2001 'Legal irritants: How unifying law ends up in new divergences' in Varieties of capitalism. Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (eds), 417-441. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
64. Torstendahl, Rolf, and Michael Burrage editors 1991 The formation of professions: Knowledge, state and strategy. London: Sage.
65. Treue, Wilhelm 1986 Geschichte einer Hamburgischen Anwaltssozietät. Stuttgart: Steiner.
66. Trubek, David M., Yves Dezalay, Ruth Buchanan, and John Davis 1994 'Global restructuring and the law: Studies of the internationalization of legal fields and the creation of transnational arenas'. Case Western Reserve Law Review 442: 407-498.
67. UNCTAD 2004 World investment report 2004: The shift towards services. Geneva: United Nations.
68. Whitley, Richard 1999 Divergent capitalisms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
69. Whitley, Richard 2003 'The institutional structuring of organizational capabilities: The role of authority sharing and organizational careers'. Organization Studies 24/5: 667-695.