@article{2004:haunschild:contingent,
title = {Contingent Work: The Problem of Disembeddedness and Economic Reembeddedness},
year = {2004},
note = {All economic action is embedded in social contexts (Granovetter 1985).
However, contingent work practices make work relations more episodic,
transient and market-like. They produce dislocated and time-space
spanning social contexts and, therefore, contribute to what Giddens
(1990) has called the process of disembedding. The aim of the paper is
to relate contingent work practices to a wider societal context by
looking at how these disembedded practices become reembedded in local
contexts of interaction. For situations in which means-end
calculations are the dominant focus of social relations and in which
social interactions are, for the most part, consciously reflected as
resource exchange relations, the term economic reembedding is
suggested. But - illustrated by Bourdieu's notion of social capital -
the paper also explores limits to an economization of social relations
in general and of work practices in particular. In conclusion, some
implications for firms' utilization, management, and reproduction of
human resources are discussed that follow on from the embeddedness
perspective on contingent work developed in the paper.},
journal = {mrev management revue},
pages = {74--88},
author = {Haunschild, Axel},
volume = {15},
number = {1}
}