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Inter‐organizational Relations and Employment in a Multi‐employer Environment

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  • Jill Rubery
  • Fang Lee Cooke
  • Jill Earnshaw
  • Mick Marchington

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This study focuses on the employment dimensions of inter‐organizational relations, taking as an example a large regional airport. The dense and complex relationships that emerge in a multi‐agency setting are highlighted to illustrate the tensions and contradictions that characterize the management of workers in an environment where contracting and recontracting predominate. These findings suggest that there is a need, on the one hand, to include inter‐organizational relations in the study of the employment relationship and, on the other hand, to reinsert employment issues into the analysis of inter‐organizational contracting and partnerships.

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  • Jill Rubery & Fang Lee Cooke & Jill Earnshaw & Mick Marchington, 2003. "Inter‐organizational Relations and Employment in a Multi‐employer Environment," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 41(2), pages 265-289, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:brjirl:v:41:y:2003:i:2:p:265-289
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8543.00272
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    2. Beynon, Huw & Grimshaw, Damian & Rubery, Jill & Ward, Kevin, 2002. "Managing Employment Change: The New Realities of Work," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199248704.
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