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Reasons for the spread of atypical work in the knowledge economy

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Szabo K., Negyesi A.

Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)

2004

vol. 51

issue 1

46-65

The fixed employment for an indefinite term previously typical of industrial society (bolstered by various privileges and safeguards) has been declining in the last decade or two. There has been an unstoppable spread by various forms of atypical employment, ranging from agency labour to remote working at back-up offices in the Third World. The article places atypical work within the conceptual frames of the new institutional school, emphasizing the diminishing human-capital specificity in employment relations. The 'loosening' of work - the decomposition in time and space of concentrated factory work - is a change comparable in importance to the appearance of the factory system. 'Loosened' work is a logical consequence of the development patterns in the knowledge economy. According to the logic of information technology, modules making up production processes (like the cells of economic organizations) gain independence; each leads a life of its own, with infinite combinatory possibilities opening up. The same trend appears in the work field, where firm, tied, static, 'safe' forms become changeable, 'fluid', dynamic and uncertain. This gives a boost to the knowledge economy, as nomadic employees take their expertise with them from one project, economic unit, country or region to the next. The other side of the coin, however, is that employees (other than key personnel with the fundamental competencies) become interchangeable, disposable, recallable and transferable - in a word, insecure.

Competitive and cooperative attitudes in a transforming economy

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Hamori B., Szabo K., Derecskei A., Hurta H., Toth L.

Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)

2007

vol. 54

issue 6

579-601

The basic institutions and legal frames of a market economy were established quite quickly after the change of system in East-Central Europe, including Hungary. But there has been a much slower change in the behaviour of the economic actors. The purpose of the research was to show the extent to which the competitive attitude and not least cooperative behaviour essential to market economies has developed in the two decades since the change of system. Are the actors in the economy capable of a positive response to the appearance of foreign competitors, or does the old, anti-competitive attitude still prevail? How is the behaviour of the competitors influenced by state intervention? The answers to these questions have been based on 71 in-depth interviews and a comparison of the picture obtained with data from a few international surveys.

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