‘You try to be a fair employer’: Regulation and employment relationships in medium-sized firms
通过对三家中型企业的质性研究，探讨雇佣规制如何间接影响日常雇佣关系，发现正式政策反而被用于强化管理者特权，而员工更依赖心理契约而非外部法规来评判雇佣关系。
In this article, we explore the dynamic, indirect effects of employment regulation through a qualitative study of three medium-sized enterprises and their ongoing, everyday employment relationships. Whereas owner–manager prerogative is generally associated with informality in small and medium-sized enterprises, we identify instances of formal policies and procedures implemented in response to regulation being instrumental in exerting this prerogative. Furthermore, employees reinforced this process by making judgements regarding the employment relationship in terms of their perceived informal psychological contract rather than external regulatory obligations. This article extends understanding of dynamic, indirect regulatory effects in relation to the interplay of informality and formality within psychological contracts in medium-sized enterprises.