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Knowledge Creation in Temporary Organizations
2016This chapter studies knowledge creation in temporary organizations (TOs) to address the relationship between TOs and their permanent environment. Knowledge creation is a process of interaction in an organizational context that must combine hierarchy/control and flexibility/autonomy elements.
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Expanding Performance Feedback Theory to Temporary Organizations
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017Temporary organizations–such as projects–are increasingly relevant, yet organization theory on temporary organizations remains incomplete.
Steigenberger, Norbert +3 more
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Organizing environmental control in temporary local organizations
Business Strategy and the Environment, 1999This paper discusses how environmental improvement work can be organized differently. The concept of temporary local organization is introduced to exemplify complementary strategies to centrally organized permanent organizations. By thorough empirical descriptions of four local reform projects in Sweden, and by analysing 39 interviews, characteristics ...
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Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work
2014Over the past two decades the use of flexible employment relations has increased in most developed countries. The growth of temporary agency work constitutes a significant component of this development. Organizations are now facing the challenges of managing a ‘blended workforce’, i.e. a workforce consisting of both direct hires and contractors.
Koene, Bas +2 more
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Organizing Temporary, Subcontracted, and Immigrant Workers
Labor Studies Journal, 2016Since 2008, Warehouse Workers United (WWU) has organized thousands of low-wage warehouse workers in Southern California’s Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, many of whom are temporary, subcontracted, and immigrant workers. Warehouse Workers Resource Center (WWRC), formed in 2011, has provided additional legal services and other resources to ...
Juan D. De Lara +2 more
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Organizing Temporary Agency Workers in Japan
2023Abstract This chapter examines inclusive responses of Japanese unions to the growth of non-regular workers, especially temporary agency workers. It presents three cases of union organizing of agency workers and examines how unions with inclusive responses try to represent the interests of these workers.
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Ecologies of Temporary Organizations
Project Management JournalIn this thoughtlet I propose to expand current thinking about projects and temporary organizations to consider ecologies of temporary organizations. In this perspective, temporary organizations transcend the boundaries of permanent organizations to form quasi-permanent ecologies.
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Temporary Organization for Crisis Intervention
1993When disaster strikes a community, confusion often results. Usually, the implementation of contingency plans requires the cooperation of different organizations, groups, and individuals. Frequently, such units are poorly coordinated, at least initially. In addition, there will always be volunteers who want to help.
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