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The Business of Temporary Staffing: A Developing Research Agenda
Author(s) -
Coe Neil M.,
Jones Katharine,
Ward Kevin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
geography compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.587
H-Index - 65
ISSN - 1749-8198
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00360.x
Subject(s) - staffing , agency (philosophy) , work (physics) , public relations , business , political science , sociology , management , economics , social science , engineering , mechanical engineering
This paper offers a critical review of the existing literatures on temporary staffing. It argues that while research on both client firm rationales and the experiences and characteristics of temporary agency workers are relatively well advanced, work that explores the temporary staffing industry and its own strategies and expansionary logics is still in its infancy. This is a significant oversight given the increasingly widespread influence of this particular form of labour market intermediary. Grounded in recent work in economic geography, the paper maps a future research agenda.