Collaborative Research: Interorganizational Networks and the Changing Employment Contract

这是一门研究工作机构如何与其他组织建立联系以招聘和培训工人的学科。通过对全国范围内按规模分层的工作机构样本进行两波调查，将被问及这些公司如何依赖外部组织进行劳动合同和职业培训。所测试的假设涉及稳定的组织环境、紧张的劳动力市场、工会的作用以及劳动合同和职业培训中常见做法的制度化的影响。通过依赖于网络视角来确定与招聘和承包组织的联系如何影响单个企业的决策，本研究做出了一个理论贡献，将其与两种流行的观点区分开来。其中一种假设是，劳动力成本完全在企业外部，因此取决于市场关系。另一种观点则相反，认为劳动力成本完全是内部的，因此只受等级关系的影响。相反，这些研究人员将组织间网络视为公司内部变革的基础。这项研究解决了一些基本问题，即当雇主为招聘和培训工人而与外部组织建立联系时，人力资本形成的变化可能会发生。它将展示雇主及其劳动力招聘和培训来源之间的网络关系的特征如何影响雇用公司及其工人可获得的机会。研究结果将对了解这些招聘和培训做法如何影响成本和质量产生重大影响。

This is a study of how work establishments form ties with other organizations in order to recruit and train workers. Using a national sample of work establishments, stratified by size, in a two-wave panel, questions will be asked about how those firms rely on outside organizations for labor contracting and job training. Hypotheses tested deal with the effects of stable organizational environments, tight labor markets, the role of labor unions, and the institutionalization of common practices in labor contracting and job training. By relying on a network perspective to determine how links with recruiting and contracting organizations shape individual firm decisions, this research makes a theoretical contribution that sets it apart from two prevailing views. In one, there is the assumption that labor costs are entirely external to the firm, and thus dependent on market relations. In the other, there is the contrary assumption that labor costs are entirely internal and therefore subject only to hierarchical relations. Instead, these researchers look at interorganizational networks as the basis of change within firms. %%% This research addresses fundamental questions about how changes in the formation of human capital may be taking place when employers establish ties with outside organizations for the recruitment and training of workers. It will demonstrate how the characteristics of network relations between employers and their sources of labor recruitment and training affect the the employing firms and the opportunities available to their workers. Research findings will have major implications for understanding how cost and quality are affected by these recruitment and training practices.