Strategies and tactics for local market making in the Temporary Staffing Industry |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Healthcare Management & Organizational Leadership, School of Business, Quinnipiac University, 275 Mount Carmel Ave., Hamden, CT 06518, United States;2. Division of Applied Economics and Agricultural Education, University of Minnesota, 146J Ruttan Hall, St. Paul, CT 55108, United States;1. Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain;2. Universitad Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the increasing complexity of interactions between temporary staffing agencies and their client firms within the local labour market of Birmingham, UK. Temporary Staffing Agencies have been identified as active and influential agents in local, national and international labour markets. Their influence on local labour market functioning, national labour regulation and international regulatory frameworks is growing. Existing literature demonstrates the power of large multinational temporary staffing agencies in both established and emerging temporary staffing markets. Such analyses also contend that multinational agencies operate in very different ways to smaller independent ‘back-street’ temporary staffing agencies, with different types of clients and at different ends of the market. However, the research conducted in Birmingham, UK suggests that the reality is more complex. It is argued that there can be more subtle and intricate nuances of relevance to the temporary staffing industry in respect of the relationships that exist between large and small temporary staffing agencies, as well as between such agencies and their clients. We highlight how smaller agencies in Birmingham are utilising a variety of strategies and tactics to creatively ‘bolt-on’ to more formalised national agreements established by multinational agencies with their clients. Moreover, smaller agencies – in some instances – are able to exploit their knowledge of local labour markets to subvert, sabotage and/or infiltrate the activities of multinational agencies in increasingly astute ways. In turn, this generates a series of questions for understanding the nature of ‘market making’ associated with the temporary staffing industry more broadly. |
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| Keywords: | Temporary Staffing Industry Local labour markets subversion Sabotage |
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