I used to work at Goldman Sachs! How firms benefit from organizational status in the market for human capital

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1164-1173

  Bidwell, Matthew ^a   Won, Shinjae ^a   Barbulescu, Roxana ^b,c   Mollick, Ethan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HEC PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

careers; human capital; investment banking industry; organizational status; rent appropriation

Indexed keywords

BANKING; COMMERCE; WAGES;

CAREERS; HUMAN CAPITALS; INVESTMENT BANKING; ORGANIZATIONAL STATUS; RENT APPROPRIATIONS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84936986102     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2272     Document Type: Article

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