The Collegial Phenomenon: The Social Mechanisms of Cooperation among Peers in a Corporate Law Partnership Book

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Introduction	1
1	A Structural Theory of Collective Action among Peers	19
2	Spencer, Grace & Robbins	52
3	Niches and Status in the Firm: A Specific Exchange System	91
4	Economic Performance and Quality Control	132
5	Too Many Chefs?	170
6	Organizational Integration: A Montesquieu Structure	182
7	Pressuring Partners Back to Good Order: A Lateral Control Regime	201
8	Multi-Status Oligarchs and the Negotiation of Precarious Values	242
	Conclusion	267
	App. A: Fieldwork and Questionnaire	276
App. B	Density Tables for Figure 3.1 across the Co-Worker's, Advice, and Friendship Networks of all the Lawyers in the Firm	279
App. C	Definition of Variables Presented in Table 3.3	281
App. D	Professional Authority and the Distribution of the Authority to Know	282
App. E	Presentation of Multirelational p Models	286
App. F	A Montesquieu Structure: Spotting RED ('Ready-for-Easy-Defection') Subsets	288
App. G	Overall Distribution of the Significant Effects on Each Respondent's Choices of Levers Analysed Separately in Chapter 7	291
App. H	Specialization of the Main Levers: Procedure Followed to Construct Figure 7.6	293
App. I	Who Guards the Guardians? Procedure Used to Build Figure 7.7	295
App. J	Partners' Influence Network: Density Tables for Figure 8.2	297
	Notes	299
	References	319
	Name Index	335
	Subject Index	338