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7. The New Institutional Approach to Analyze the Italian Temporary Work Agencies’ Field

verfasst von : Stefano Consiglio, Luigi Moschera

Erschienen in: Temporary Work Agencies in Italy

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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This article analyses the process of evolution of an “organizational field”: from its emergence to nowadays. By an in-depth longitudinal analysis from 1986 to 2011 we study the emergence and evolution of the Italian Temporary Work Agencies field (TWA), analyzing the interaction between players in the field and the influence of the regulatory framework on the actors’ behavior. In particular, the article analyses the role of actors within the field and the institutional logics that characterize it. Our study contributes to the institutional logic perspective fitting into the discussion on the coexistence of competing logics in an organizational field. The peculiar aspect is that the regulatory frame strongly influences the strategic and organizational behavior of the actors within the Italian TWA’s field. Therefore, the actors face an institutional complexity to which they try to answer with a series of individual and collective actions aimed at influencing the same logics through a mutual conditioning that may be more or less direct.

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Titel: The New Institutional Approach to Analyze the Italian Temporary Work Agencies’ Field
verfasst von: Stefano Consiglio
Luigi Moschera
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Temporary Work Agencies in Italy
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-44539-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-44541-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44541-0_7

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