These problems are thought to arise due to a variety of factors such as the professionalised nature of the workforce, fairly high employee bargaining power and strongly expressed preferences for autonomy. For example, Von Nordenflycht (2010, pp. 160, 165) categorises law firms as “Classic PSFs” due to their archetypal conception of the professions, strong professional ideology and emphasis on individual self-regulation. Similarly, Malhotra and Morris (2009, p. 908) characterise law firms as: operating within a strong professional knowledge base and organisation form, adopting a hierarchical team structure using sequential work processes, organising through a coordinated or decentralised federation structure, and operating through offices established in comparatively few locations.