What Makes Women-Friendly Public Accounting Firms Tick? The Diffusion of Human Resource Management Knowledge Through Institutional and Resource Pressures
dc.contributor.author | Wooten, Lynn Perry | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T16:16:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T16:16:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Wooten, Lynn Perry; (2001). "What Makes Women-Friendly Public Accounting Firms Tick? The Diffusion of Human Resource Management Knowledge Through Institutional and Resource Pressures." Sex Roles 45 (5-6): 277-297. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45626> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0360-0025 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-2762 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45626 | |
dc.description.abstract | Through the analysis of qualitative data, this research applies institutional theory and the resource-based perspective to examine why public accounting firms adopt women-friendly human resource management policies. The study reveals that 5 types of institutional pressures explain why women-friendly policies have proliferated in the public accounting industry. In addition to these institutional pressures, the proliferation of women-friendly policies in accounting firms has occurred because these firms are motivated to optimize available economic choices. Firms view women-friendly policies as a means to acquire, develop, and accumulate resources that will give them a competitive advantage in the marketplace. However, these women-friendly policies only provide competitive advantage when they are both valuable and difficult for competitors to imitate because of social complexity, knowledge management, and tacitness. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 92882 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology/Archaeometry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Interdisciplinary Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Developmental Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Psychology | en_US |
dc.title | What Makes Women-Friendly Public Accounting Firms Tick? The Diffusion of Human Resource Management Knowledge Through Institutional and Resource Pressures | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Women's and Gender Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan Business School, USA; | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45626/1/11199_2004_Article_366654.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1014353413496 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Sex Roles | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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