8.2 Flexible Employment in 21st Century Workplaces: The Co-Evolution of Inter-Organizational Employment Networks, Flexible Employment Practices, and Workplace Cooperative Performance

The current project aims to understand (institutionally contested) practices are able to emerge and spread in an organizational field.

Project info

Project consists of following studies
Bringing the past back in –history and persistence in organizations and institutions Becoming an Agent of Change. Organizational Founding Context and Female Leaders’ Influence on Wage and Employment Equality Becoming an Agent of Change. Organizational Leaders’ Early-Career Experiences and Gender Equality at Workplaces Imprinting and contested practices: early-careers of public sector directors and the adoption of temporary employment in Dutch public sector organizations
Description
The current project aims to understand (institutionally contested) practices are able to emerge and spread in an organizational field. We develop a new understanding by involving the until now undetermined role of organizational leaders. With this new framework, we hope to understand how organizations realize adoption of, for example, contested employment practices in the Dutch public sector.
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Project start
01/09/2019
End date
31/08/2023
Behavioral theory
  • Identities
Researchers
PhD
MSc Sofie Wiersma
0000-0002-5306-4361
Rijks Universiteit Groningen
Supervisor
Prof. dr. Rafael Wittek
0000-0002-8473-6984
Rijks Universiteit Groningen
Supervisor
Prof. dr. Marco van Leeuwen
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Utrecht University
Supervisor
Dr. Zoltán Lippényi
0000-0001-8751-5741
Rijks Universiteit Groningen
Subjects
  • Contested terrain
  • Employees
  • Imprinting
  • Institutional change
  • Institutional entrepreneurs
  • Sociology
  • Temporary employment
Audience
  • Employers’ organizations
  • HR managers
  • Managers
  • Organisation science
  • Policy advisors
  • Sociology
Work package
  • Work
Sustainability threat
  • Spillovers
Challenge
  • Reconfiguring-roles-and-relationships
  • Reshaping organizational forms
Theoretical background
We draw on several streams of literature. i) literature on institutional entrepreneurship; ii) literature on institutionally contested practices; iii) imprinting literature; iv) literature on changing employment relationships.
Research design
The first year of this PhD project consists of a literature study to identify gaps in literature, gaps in data, and develop new theoretical frameworks and methods to address our research questions.
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NWO