Inter-organisational human resource management and network orientation of worker representatives: a practice-based perspective

Markus Helfen, Jörg Sydow and Carsten Wirth
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Markus Helfen: Hertie School, Germany
Jörg Sydow: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Carsten Wirth: Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2024, vol. 30, issue 2, 181-206

Abstract: We develop a practice-based framework of inter-organisational human resource management that puts multi-employer work arrangements in inter-firm networks at its centre. By reinterpreting existing knowledge on multi-employer work arrangements and how they are managed, we delineate four processes in the assemblage of inter-organisational HR management. To illustrate the usefulness of our framework, we explore the question of whether and how an inter-organisational HR management develops in four exemplary cases of multi-employer work arrangements. These cases reveal that the quality and degree of inter-organisational HR management varies considerably, also depending on whether worker representatives show network awareness and orient their activities towards inter-organisational relations.

Keywords: Inter-organisational networks; inter-organisational human resource management (HRM); agency work; multi-employer work arrangements; employment and labour relations; practice theory; airports; food processing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/10242589241249639

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