Institutional Logics and Low Skills: The Case of the Private Security Sector in Singapore

Soon Joo Gog, Johnny Sung and David N Ashton
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Soon Joo Gog: SkillsFuture, Singapore
Johnny Sung: Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore
David N Ashton: University of Leicester, UK

Work, Employment & Society, 2018, vol. 32, issue 6, 1029-1043

Abstract: This article introduces the concept of institutional logics to provide a more adequate understanding of the interaction between firms and the institutions within an economy that impact on skills and pay. We argue that the most prominent institutionalist approaches suffer from a number of major weaknesses that have contributed towards the failure of policy initiatives derived from them. We then demonstrate how developments in relational sociology offer the promise of remedying these deficiencies. The case of the private security services sector in Singapore, which has suffered from low skills and low pay, is then used to illustrate how this new approach, highlighting the institutional logics of the sector, can provide a more productive approach to policy in this area.

Keywords: institutional logics; low pay; low skills; private security; Singapore; skills policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017017719830

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