Purpose–The main goal of this article is to present a new taxonomy of contingent
employment that better represents the wide variety of part‐time, temporary, and contract …

Existing research tends to depict contingent work either as having similar implications for
firms and workers in all settings or as varying in its implications depending only on …

Contingent work constitutes one of the most controversial labor issues. In this era of
corporate downsizing and a general sense of job insecurity, the notion that American …

Internal and contingent employment can be either substitutes or complements: Contingent
workers are used either to replace the internal employment system or to complement it …

In the past decade there has been growing internationally-based evidence towards a trend
in organizational staffing strategies which have placed emphasis upon the direct or brokered …

We find support for distinguishing between two types of contingent workers: boundaryless
and traditional. The existence of these two types helps explain the conflicting views about …

The US economy appears to be headed in a variety of contradictory directions. While
managers of major corporations create familyresponsive policies on the one hand, those …

Within most nations there has been growing evidence of a shift from 'traditional'or ongoing
employment contracts to arrangements which are more 'fixed-term'or 'contingent'in structure …

This paper examines work commitment outside of traditional and ongoing employer–
employee relationships. In particular, attention is given to the commitment-related …

To some, the terms" contingent work" and" bad jobs" are synonymous, although that was not
necessarily what was intended when the phrase was originally coined. To examine how …