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Promotion Strategies for Hierarchically Organised Professional Service Firms: Is “Up or Out” Always the Best?

Promotion Strategies for Hierarchically Organised Professional Service Firms: Is “Up or Out”... It is argued that in a hierarchically organised professional service firm the appropriate long‐term promotion strategy is “up or out”. This argument is based on both a theoretical analysis of alternative strategies and on data from consulting and engineering consultancies in the United Kingdom. Only the “up or out” strategy can balance a professional service partnership in times of both growth and stagnation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Service Industry Management Emerald Publishing

Promotion Strategies for Hierarchically Organised Professional Service Firms: Is “Up or Out” Always the Best?

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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © 1990 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
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0956-4233
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Abstract

It is argued that in a hierarchically organised professional service firm the appropriate long‐term promotion strategy is “up or out”. This argument is based on both a theoretical analysis of alternative strategies and on data from consulting and engineering consultancies in the United Kingdom. Only the “up or out” strategy can balance a professional service partnership in times of both growth and stagnation.

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International Journal of Service Industry Management – Emerald Publishing

Published: Dec 1, 1990

Keywords: Growth; Manpower planning

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