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Jonczyk Sédès, Claudia

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Jonczyk Sédès, Claudia
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Professeur ordinaire en management stratégique
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claudia.jonczyk@unine.ch
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https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/1143
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    Network dynamics across the career life-cycle: Micro-mechanisms of network development
    (2017-10-20)
    Jonczyk Sédès, Claudia 
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    Bensaou, Ben
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    Galunic, Charles
    Looking at networking agency throughout the career life-cycle in a professional service firm (LegalCo) we find distinctive practices of networking agency that come with the tasks and roles of different career stages. Taking a grounded theory approach we identify in our in-depth interviews with lawyers at the junior, mid-career associate and partner level particular activities that differentiate individuals expressing high networking agency compared to other peers that express low networking agency. We then track the patterns of networking agency across the three career stages from junior associate to partner and identify three overreaching mechanisms of networking agency: The seeking out of specific organisational actors, the creation of imprinting ties and the playing on similarities account for distinctively different career experiences for high versus low networking agency professionals. Our study demonstrates that networking agency is an important concept to explain how specific ties become imprinted and thereby provide benefits across several career stages. Networking agency is also a key factor to explain how organisational actors may exploit (or not) homophily in their work context.
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    Serving two masters: Role expectation enactment and anticipated careers of service professionals
    (2017)
    Barbulescu, Roxana
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    Jonczyk Sédès, Claudia 
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    Galunic, Charles
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    Bensaou, Ben
    While only a small minority of professionals joining a professional service firm (PSF) make it to partnership, we know little about how the individuals themselves navigate that system - in particular, how they decide to stay and pursue the partnership track, what makes them leave the firm, and whether and when these decisions may co-exist. This study adopts a role expectations enactment lens to examine the strategies that individuals engage in to mange their careers, both those who seek to "make it" within the firm and those who may prepare their exit. Building on in-depth interviews with 60 pre-partnership professionals in accounting, consulting, and law, we uncover four anticipated career paths - partner-track, client-track, off-track and wait-and-see - and corresponding systematic variations in the ways that professionals enact their role with respect to partners and clients. We find that individual career agency is embedded in the proximate social structures that circumsribe professionals role expectation enactment. In particular, findings highlight how partner-client portfolio constellations impinge on the ability to engage in specific forms of role enactment beyond what both the traditional PSF literature and the proteancareer lens would lead us to expect.
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    Networking throughout the career cycle: The role of agency and imprinting
    (2014)
    Jonczyk Sédès, Claudia 
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    Bensaou, Ben
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    Galunic, Charles
    Looking at the evolution of networking behaviours throughout the career life-cycle in a professional service firm (LegalCo) we find distinctive networking foci and activities that come with the tasks and roles of different career stages. Taking a closer look at networking behaviour within each career stage we identify and describe how the networking of high agency (HA) vs. low agency (LA) service professionals differs. We track the differentiation betwwn HA and LA networkers across the career life-cycle from junior associate to partner and identify three overreaching mechanisms of networking agency - seeking out (specific organisational actors), creating imprinting ties and playing on similarities - that account for distinctively different networking parths throughtout the carrer life - cycle. We discuss the career implications and the role of homophily as an underlying groundwork that acts as an enabler or a hurdle to the activation of the identified mechanisms of agency.
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    Losing touch:Balancing cohesion and efficiency during management transitions
    (2013)
    Jonczyk Sédès, Claudia 
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    Lee, Yonghoon
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    Galunic, Charles
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    Bensaou, Ben
    This study concerns contingencies in losing ties. Our setting is three professional service firms where we examine changes in relations of recently promoted service professionals (auditors, consultants, and lawyers). Our focus is on tie loss. We take a comprehensive look at driving factors, examining qualities of the alter, the relationship, and social structure. Each contributes to predicating change, but revealing an overarching tendency for balance between cohesion and efficiency logics. Newly promoted professionals will avoid losing high-status contacts (H1), but they don’t shed contacts of any rank who bring multiplex resources (H2). They are less likely to lose contacts they trust (H3, H4) and especially embedded ties (H5), but they also pursue efficiency, shedding the most redundant relations (H6). Finally, we parse out the role of different types of trust on structurally redundant contacts by showing that a high level of cognitive trust in one’s extant network facilitates the letting go of redundant ties (H7) while a high level of emotional trust hinders the shedding of ties (H8).
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    Social capital in high-performing service organizations
    (2008)
    Jonczyk Sédès, Claudia 
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    Bensaou, Ben
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    Galunic, Charles
    This study uses a configurational approach to explore what networking strategies professionals in high performing service organizations employ. Data was collected from 53 managers working for a global strategy consulting company and a Big Four auditing firm. Using a grounded theory approach, we define the variables characterizing a “networking configuration”. A consecutive cluster analysis is then conducted resulting in three distinctive configurations based on the networking strategy exhibited: “Game-players” are found to exhibit intensive networking behaviours upwards and downwards inside and outside the company, while “Trade-off makers” are adopting a networking configuration primarily focused on networking upwards. The third “Low key” cluster is predominantly focusing on networking with subordinates. Subsequent mean comparisons using Scheffe ranges for the three clusters on non-defining variables confirm significant differences between the networking clusters with respect to social identity measures and network characteristics. The results are discussed in terms of the characteristics of each networking configuration and their respective linkage to social identity measures such as role clarity, co-worker integration and organizational commitment as well as network characteristics such as network size and density.
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    Client embeddedness of service professionals
    (2006)
    Barbulescu, Roxana
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    Bensaou, Ben
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    Galunic, Charles
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    Jonczyk Sédès, Claudia 
    he embeddedness literature has provided rich insights into the constituents and consequences of firm-level relational arrangements; much less is known about their construction and dynamics. In particular, there is paucity of research about how individuals participate in the construction of embeddedness of inter-firm relationships. This is particularly important to our understanding of professional service firms (PSF’s), where client-professional social relations are crucial to the performance of work. Our study is concerned with the mechanisms of how junior service professionals become socially embedded with clients. We develop a measure of embeddedness based on the junior professional’s self-assessment of their social integration with clients and then induce, through grounded theory building, what distinguishes junior professionals who score high on this measure from those who score low. Our data come from survey and in-depth interviews with 68 respondents recently promoted to client-facing roles in three PSF’s . We discover that young professionals who find themselves more socially integrated with clients rely on framings, norms and strategies that lead them to focus on clients at the expense of partners. Alternative career logics provide basic ingredients to constructing such (more) embedded relationships with one over another key stakeholder in their future. These findings suggest that development of embedded relationships requires trade-offs and focus by the individuals at the core of inter-firm relations. Our study contributes to an understanding of the social structures surrounding economic action as fragmented and conflicting, and highlights the importance of agency in embeddedness construction.