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The ‘New Competition’ and Working Time
Author(s) -
Rubery Jill,
Horrell Sara
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
human resource management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.44
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1748-8583
pISSN - 0954-5395
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-8583.1992.tb00306.x
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , commission , power (physics) , market power , economics , market competition , industrial organization , management , sociology , marketing , business , market economy , finance , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , monopoly
Jill Rubery, who is Senior Lecturer at the Manchester School of Management, and Sara Horrell, Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, draw on a study for the Equal Opportunities Commission to discuss the significance of the competitive conditions said to lie behind changes in working time. They argue that the existing approaches to understanding these changes – they are ‘determined’ by the ‘market/technology’ or relate to a redefinition of power relations within the workplace – are both inadequate. What is required, they suggest, is a more complex analysis of competition which takes into account both the factors that shape market conditions and the factors inside the organisation that influence responses to them.