The ‘Flexible Firm’: Strategy and Segmentation
本文整合英国就业部委托的两项研究，分析雇主劳动力使用策略，发现企业在此领域普遍缺乏战略，并探讨其对劳动力市场性别与分割的影响。
Abstract This paper draws together and provides further analysis of two research projects commissioned by the Department of Employment, with a focus on employers' labour use strategies in Britain. It seeks to place on a firmer statistical basis arguments about the presence and growth of the ‘flexible firm’, and it draws also on case‐study data to explore some of the issues relating to flexibility and strategy. Our conclusions are that there has been a marked absence of strategy in this area, and reasons for this are explored, as are the implications for gender and segmentation in the labour market.