Dependent Self-Employment: Workers on the Border between Employment and Self Employment

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figure......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1.1 Introduction and motivation......Page 14
1.2 What is dependent self-employment?......Page 17
1.3.1 Research design and methods......Page 21
1.3.2 The countries: varieties of capitalism?......Page 22
1.3.3 The industries......Page 25
1.4 Overview of the book......Page 27
2.1 Recent trends of self-employment......Page 31
2.2 Dependent forms of outsourcing and the development of self-employment......Page 33
2.3 The special case of franchising......Page 35
2.4 Evidence of independent contractors in the US......Page 36
2.5 Evidence of dependent self-employment and dependent forms of outsourcing......Page 39
2.6 Conclusions......Page 45
3.1 The legal uncertainty of dependent self-employment......Page 47
3.2 The scope of labour law in comparative perspective......Page 50
3.3 Conclusions......Page 57
4.1 The determinants of self-employment......Page 59
4.2 The motives to supply-dependent self-employed work: qualitative findings......Page 63
4.3 Dependent self-employment in Austria......Page 67
4.4 Dependent self-employment in the UK......Page 71
4.5 Dependent self-employment in Italy......Page 79
4.6 Conclusions......Page 90
5.1 The importance of informal structures......Page 93
5.2.1 The market-versus-hierarchy approach......Page 94
5.2.2 Relational contracts, repeated games and reciprocity......Page 99
5.3.1 Relational contracts and dependent forms of outsourcing......Page 104
5.3.2 The key features of dependent business relationships......Page 107
5.3.3 Explaining dependent outsourcing from an organisational sociology perspective......Page 110
5.4 Conclusions......Page 118
6.1 The research design......Page 120
6.2.1 Employment in the British and Austrian insurance industry......Page 123
6.2.2 The creation of dependent self-employment in the insurance industry......Page 128
6.2.3 The organisational logic of tied agency......Page 145
6.3.1 Employment trends in the Austrian service sector......Page 155
6.3.2 The dependent self-employed workers in the Austrian service industry......Page 158
6.3.3 Effects and consequences of dependent self-employment......Page 164
6.4.1 Recent developments in the Austrian freight industry......Page 168
6.4.2 The contractual organisation of dependent self-employment in the Austrian freight industry......Page 170
6.4.3 Motives for outsourcing the fleet of trucks......Page 171
6.4.4 Effects, risks and consequences of outsourcing......Page 174
6.5.1 Dependency as a result of support......Page 178
6.5.2 Dependency as a result of managerial control......Page 180
6.5.3 Relational risk and mutual dependency......Page 182
6.6 Dependency, relational contracts and the creation of hybrid forms of organisational governance......Page 183
6.7 Power and trust in dependent business relations......Page 186
6.8 Conclusions......Page 189
7.1.1 The key features of dependent business relationships......Page 191
7.1.2 The factors determining the creation of dependent business relationships......Page 196
7.2 The borders of dependent self-employment and legal regulation......Page 200
7.3 Within-system diversity and mixed governance structures......Page 204
Notes......Page 208
References......Page 215
Index......Page 226