TY - JOUR
T1 - Employed under different rules
T2 - The complexities of working across organizational boundaries
AU - Rubery, Jill
AU - Marchington, Mick
AU - Grimshaw, Damian
AU - Carroll, Marilyn
AU - Pass, Sarah
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - A major element of the transforming work debate is the spread of complex organizational forms. Hierarchical and strictly bounded employing organizations are said to be being replaced by fluid networks of organizations, working in partnership to achieve shared goals. Case studies of four co-production networks cast doubts on the extent to which employment hierarchies have lost salience. Inter-organizational relations are found to result not in the absence of hierarchies but in their overlapping, intertwining and fragmentation. These interactions raise problems of consistency and fairness within the employment relationship, particularly related to distributive justice, procedural justice and career development.
AB - A major element of the transforming work debate is the spread of complex organizational forms. Hierarchical and strictly bounded employing organizations are said to be being replaced by fluid networks of organizations, working in partnership to achieve shared goals. Case studies of four co-production networks cast doubts on the extent to which employment hierarchies have lost salience. Inter-organizational relations are found to result not in the absence of hierarchies but in their overlapping, intertwining and fragmentation. These interactions raise problems of consistency and fairness within the employment relationship, particularly related to distributive justice, procedural justice and career development.
KW - Careers
KW - Employment relationship
KW - Hierarchy
KW - HRM consistency
KW - Inter-organizational relations
KW - Networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=73949089249&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/cjres/rsp017
DO - 10.1093/cjres/rsp017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:73949089249
SN - 1752-1378
VL - 2
SP - 413
EP - 427
JO - Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
JF - Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
IS - 3
ER -