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Flexible Work Practices: Analysis from a Pragmatist Perspective
Flexible Arbeitspraktiken: Eine Analyse aus pragmatischer Perspektive
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Abstract Traditional human resource management (HRM) research can hardly relate to today's developments in the world of work. Organizational boundaries are blurred because of the complexity due to globalization, digitalization, and demographic changes. In practice, new ways of organizing work can be found th... mehr
Traditional human resource management (HRM) research can hardly relate to today's developments in the world of work. Organizational boundaries are blurred because of the complexity due to globalization, digitalization, and demographic changes. In practice, new ways of organizing work can be found that depend on the specifics of the work situation. In this paper, we build on the economics of convention (EC) to elaborate on the current challenges HRM scholarship is confronted with and provide a theoretical lens that goes beyond the tension between market and bureaucracy principles in actual employment settings. We apply EC’s situationalist methodology to examples of the challeng-ing coordination of flexibility in the workplace. We explain two hybrid forms of coordination – compromises and local arrangements – and highlight the dy-namics of employment practices in organizations related to these forms. Thereby, we show that different modes of coordination in employment are applied in a fluctuating manner that depends on the specific situations. In doing so, we further seek to remind HRM scholars of the fruitfulness of the pragmatist per-spective in analyzing work practices, as well as extending its conceptual toolkit for future analysis.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Personalmanagement; Arbeitsorganisation; Beschäftigungsform; Flexibilität; Bürokratie
Klassifikation
Personalwesen
Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen
Freie Schlagwörter
Human Resource Management; employment practices; pragmatism; economics of convention; market; flexible work
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 73-91
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 44 (2019) 1
Heftthema
Markets, Organizations, and Law - Perspectives of Convention Theory on Economic Practices and Structures
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)