Fragmenting work : blurring organizational boundaries and disordering hierarchies /

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Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description:xiii, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5540060
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Other authors / contributors:Marchington, Mick.
ISBN:0199262233
0199262241 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Information, Finance, and Markets
  • 2. Hierarchies, Markets, and Power in the Economy: An Economic Perspective
  • 3. Routines and Other Recurring Action Patterns of Organizations: Contemporary Research Issues
  • 4. Costly and Bounded Rationality in Individual and Team Decision-Making
  • Section II. Evolutionary Theory and Technological Change
  • 1. Introduction: Fragmenting Work Across Organizational Boundaries
  • 2. Inter-Organizational Networks: Trust, Power, and the Employment Relationship
  • 3. Blurring the Boundaries to the Employment Relationship: From Single to Multi-Employer Relationships
  • 4. The Strategic Management of Contracting in the Private Sector
  • 5. Public-Private Contracting: Performance, Power, and Change at Work
  • 6. The Role of Boundary-Spanning Agents in Inter-Organizational Contracting
  • 7. Employment Policy and Practice: Crossing Borders and Disordering Hierarchies
  • 8. Commitment and Identity Across Organizational Boundaries
  • 9. Changing Boundaries, Shaping Skills: The Fragmented Organizational Form and Employee Skills
  • 10. Gender and New Organizational Forms
  • 11. Prospects for Worker Voice Across Organizational Boundaries
  • 12. Conclusion: Redrawing Boundaries: Reflections on Practice and Policy