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The Network Economy and Models of the Employment Contract: Psychological, Economic and Legal

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  • David Marsden

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The emergence of the so-called ¿network economy¿ and the development of project-basedwork pose a fundamental challenge to established methods of regulating the employmentrelationship. There appears to be an unsatisfied demand for its greater use, especially amongemployers, and it is argued that this may be blocked by the lack of suitable contractual forms,such as those that have underpinned the established open-ended employment relationship.Project-based work seeks to retain some of the open-ended flexibility of the standardemployment relationship in relation to its task content but not its duration. The paper arguesthe success of the standard employment relationship owes much to the articulation of itspsychological, economic/incentive, and legal aspects. As yet, this appears to be lacking formore transient forms of relationship.

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Paper provided by Centre for Economic Performance, LSE in its series CEP Discussion Papers with number dp0620.

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Keywords: Network economy; Labor Contracting; Labor Law; Labor-Management Relations;

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