Organisational restructuring and emerging service value chains: Implications for work and employment

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 680-698

  Flecker, Jörg ^a   Meil, Pamela ^b  

^a Working Life Research Centre (FORBA)   (Austria)

^b Institute for Social Science Research (ISF) Munich   (Germany)

Author keywords

employment conditions; information technology; outsourcing; restructuring; service sector; value chains; work organisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651094665     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017010380635     Document Type: Article

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