@article{2013:schmidt:the_implic,
title = {The Implications of Flexible Work: Membership in Organizations Revisited},
year = {2013},
note = {We analyze patterns of flexible employment among the highly qualified
workforce in knowledge-intensive firms. Our conceptual starting point
is the Flexible Firm that can be traced back to Atkinson. On the basis
of a qualitative field study in ten organizations, we show different
patterns in employment policy and highlight phenomena that go beyond
Atkinson’s concept. It becomes obvious that flexible contracting
with an external workforce is a function of allocating expertise
instead of gaining numerical flexibility and is furthermore rather
driven by knowledge workers than by firms. For systemizing the results
of our explorative field work we propose the model of an Amoebic
Organization as an alternative flexibility concept.},
journal = {mrev management revue},
pages = {179--198},
author = {Schmidt, Angelika},
volume = {24},
number = {3}
}