Betrayal as Market Barrier: Identity-Based Limits to Diversification among High-Status Corporate Law Firms1

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What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption (2016, background): “In one recent study, Phillips, Turco, and Zuckerman (2013) demonstrate that high-status, corporate-law firms are frowned upon when they engage in personal injury law, because their clients perceive such practice as inconsistent with corporate-law identities.”
I used to work at Goldman Sachs! How firms benefit from organizational status in the market for human capital (2015, unknown): “First, prior research has noted how high status firms are often constrained to act in ways that are consistent with their status (Phillips, Turco, and Zuckerman, 2013).”
Brokerage Professions and Implementing Reform in an Age of Experts (2014, background): “…control over their jurisdiction affords symbolic rewards; within the professional division of labor, some tasks are seen as more respectable than others, and deference is due to professionals whose work is most professionally pure (Abbott 1981; Phillips, Turco, and Zuckerman 2013; Sandefur 2001).”
Category Spanning, Evaluation, and Performance: Revised Theory and Test on the Corporate Law Market (2016, unknown): “Some of them are perceived as making more sense than others (Leung, 2014; Phillips et al., 2013; Ruef & Patterson, 2009;Wry et al., 2014), in particular due to their inclusiveness (Kennedyet al.”