Workplace quality and labour turnover in the electronics industry of the Pearl River Delta, China: Contrasting employer and employee perspectives

Kilian Pamela Hartmann, Daniel Schiller and Kraas Frauke
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Kilian Pamela Hartmann: Köln
Kraas Frauke: Köln

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 2012, vol. 56, issue 1-2, 58-79

Abstract: Export-oriented manufacturing firms in developing countries need to be highly flexible in order to respond to demand changes in volatile global markets. By using a modified version of Atkinson’s flexible firm concept as a framework, it is the aim of this paper (i) to describe the impact of workplace quality on labour turnover and (ii) to derive implications of this relationship for upgrading processes. Empirical data are combined from two surveys of migrant workers and electronics firms in the Pearl River Delta, China.

Keywords: flexible firm; upgrading; workplace quality; labour turnover; China; flexible firm; upgrading; workplace quality; labour turnover; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1515/zfw.2012.0005

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