Executive remuneration consultancy in the UK: exploring a professional project through the lens of institutional work

Adamson, Maria; Manson, Stuart; Zakaria, Idlan

doi:10.1093/jpo/jou007

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“…For example, work-life balance has been found as an emerging and increasingly important HRM practice in consulting firms (Noury, Gand, & Sardas, 2017). Some other vital HRM practices which are worthy investigation include talent attraction and retainment (Gorman, 2015), as well as compensation and rewards (Adamson, Manson, & Zakaria, 2015).…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese and Irish professional service firms compared: Linking HPWS, organizational coordination, and firm performance

Bosak

Flood

et al. 2019

Journal of Business Research

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Strategic human resource management (SHRM) has an important influence on organizational performance. Previous research has established the positive impact of a specific set SHRM practicesknown as high performance work systems (HPWS)-on firm performance. This study furthers our understanding of the performance impact of HPWS by: (a) proposing organizational coordination as a unique process-based mediator between HPWS and firm performance and (b) examining the impact of national cultural differences on the relationship between HPWS and organizational performance. Data were collected from 98 Chinese and 93 Irish accounting firms. The findings support the mediating role of organizational coordination in the relationship between HPWS and firm performance. Additionally, we found that the effects of organizational coordination were stronger in the high power distance and collectivistic culture of China than in the low power distance and individualistic culture of Ireland. Implications are discussed.

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Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese and Irish professional service firms compared: Linking HPWS, organizational coordination, and firm performance

Bosak

Flood

et al. 2019

Journal of Business Research

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“…Even powerful institutions require maintenance so that institutions remain relevant and effective" (Lawrence et al, 2009: 8). Hence, several recent attempts have been made to map maintenance work (e.g., Adamson, Manson and Zakaria, 2015;Currie et al, 2012;Dacin, Munir and Tracey, 2010;Lawrence et al, 2009;Lok and de Rond, 2013;Micelotta and Washington, 2013). These studies highlight how actors who benefit from existing arrangements respond to threats of change by trying to maintain the status quo.…”

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Intra-Professional Status, Maintenance Failure, and the Reformation of the Scottish Civil Justice System

Ozturk¹,

Amis²,

Greenwood³

2016

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The Scottish civil justice system is undergoing its most substantive transformation in over 150 years. This reformation will create new judicial bodies, alter the jurisdictional reach of courts, and drastically unsettle what has been, up to now, a highly stable institutional field. These changes have caused pronounced threats to the status of different groups of actors in the field. Our work examines the impact of these threats, and the varying responses among groups of professional actors. In so doing, we detail how intra-professional status differences and uncertainty hindered attempts to maintain threatened institutions.

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“…Although the significance of this individual agency has been de-emphasized in recent work on institutional change (Adamson, Manson, and Zakaria 2015), the data from wealth managers make clear that professionals-rather than their firms-are the crucial causal agents when it comes to expanding the practice of creating and managing trust structures. As Werner-a titled German noble who for 30 years headed the trust department at a private bank-explained, the spread of practices and ideas depends on individual wealth managers, rather than their firms: 'in our business .…”

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“…This article addresses the many calls for a course correction in work on institutional change and agency (e.g. Faulconbridge 2007;McCann and Ward 2010;Malsch and Gendron 2013;Adamson, Manson, and Zakaria 2015); it does so by linking institutional and relational theories in an analysis of an elite trans-national professional group.…”

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“…In institutional research, it has been conventional to examine agency as planned and collective, originating primarily from the organizational level. This perspective has neglected the domain of everyday institutional work by individual professionals (Adamson, Manson, and Zakaria 2015). The result has been a persistent gap in the literature: 'institutionalists have tended to neglect the .…”

Section: Introduction Through What Mechanisms Do Local Promentioning

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Going global: professionals and the micro-foundations of institutional change

Harrington

2015

Journal of Professions and Organization

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This study links theories of relationality and institutional change to deepen understanding of professionals' role in globalization. In previous institutional research, it has been conventional to treat professionals as agents of firms or transnational organizations, and institutional change as the result of planned, strategic 'professional projects'. By bringing a relational analysis to bear on the problem of institutional change, this study reasserts the theoretical significance of individual agency and everyday interactions between professionals and their clients, peers, and organizational environment. It also broadens the model of agency to include invention and improvisation by individual professionals, as a counterpart to collective strategic action. The argument is based on data from a 16-nation study exploring the emergence of a particular 'globalized localism': the transformation of the asset-holding trust from a tool of medieval English landowners into a mainstay of contemporary international finance. Drawing on interviews with 61 wealth management professionals in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, this article uses their accounts of the diffusion and deployment of trusts to specify a new, more detailed model of the ways local practices and ideas develop into global institutions.K E Y W O R D S : professions, globalization, wealth management.

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Executive remuneration consultancy in the UK: exploring a professional project through the lens of institutional work

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

Chinese and Irish professional service firms compared: Linking HPWS, organizational coordination, and firm performance

Chinese and Irish professional service firms compared: Linking HPWS, organizational coordination, and firm performance

Intra-Professional Status, Maintenance Failure, and the Reformation of the Scottish Civil Justice System

Going global: professionals and the micro-foundations of institutional change

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