Mapping the Globalization of the Temporary Staffing Industry

Authors: Coe, Neil M.¹; Johns, Jennifer²; Ward, Kevin¹

Source: The Professional Geographer, Volume 59, Number 4, November 2007 , pp. 503-520(18)

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Abstract:

Very little is currently known about the globalization of the temporary staffing industry, a strategically significant sector given its role in promulgating wider labor market flexibility. This article starts to rectify this research lacuna in four ways: by conceptualizing the international expansion of temporary staffing and comparing it to other business service sectors, by identifying and mapping the top twenty transnational staffing agencies, by offering a typology of the leading transnational agencies based on their functional and geographic characteristics, and by charting a research agenda for future work on this sector.

Keywords: business services; globalization; temporary staffing industry

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9272.2007.00638.x

Affiliations: 1: The University of Manchester 2: The University of Liverpool

Publication date: 2007-11-01