Predicting the Use of External Labor Arrangements: A Transaction Costs Perspective
Description:
Firms' use of external labor arrangements (ELAs), such as temporary, contract and seasonal workers, has become increasingly prevalent over the last two decades. Despite the increasing importance of this phenomenon, little is known about firms' reasons for using ELAs. Most research to date has been exploratory, using qualitative methods or archival data not well suited to the constructs. The result of this research has been a long and often contradictory list of proposed antecedents of ELA use.
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Date:
December 1998
Creator:
Masters, John K. (John Kendall)
Partner:
UNT Libraries