Researching Professional Service Firms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19975763 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph P Broschak |
| Editors | Laura Empson (0000-0002-8715-287X), Daniel Muzio (0000-0003-1725-9011), Joseph Broschak, Bob Hinings |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199682393.013.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2206161358 |
| ISBN | 9780199682393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The chapter begins by examining the significance of Professional Service Firms (PSFs) in terms of their scale and significance from an economic and societal perspective, and the insights they offer for academic theory. The authors examine how PSFs have remained “in the shadows,” in terms of their visibility within the economy and within scholarly research, and how and why that situation is changing. The chapter discusses “what exactly is a Professional Service Firm?” and highlights four defining characteristics relating to: customization, knowledge, governance, and identity, which frame this definition. After presenting an overview of each of the twenty chapters in the Handbook , the authors conclude by proposing various key themes for future research and by developing an integrative framework for the analysis of PSFs
Business · Corporate governance · Economics · Geography · Identity (music) · Management · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Public relations · Scale (ratio) · Service (business) · Sociology · Visibility · Computer Science · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Management and Organizational Studies · Marketing · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |