From Colleague to Employee: Determinants of Changing Career Governance Structures in Elite Law Firms

Corporate Governance and Firm Organization: Microfoundations and Structural Forms

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Lancaster, Ryon ^a   Uzzi, Brian ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Careers; Law firms; Minorities; Organization structure; Partnership governance; Professionals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919607909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269761.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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