Ausbildungsverbünde als Organisationsnetzwerke

Leemann, Regula Julia; Imdorf, Christian

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-02007-1_6

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“…Conceptually, a training network is an organisational network (Leemann and Imdorf 2015). Several firms pool their in-company training resources in order to generate collective benefits (the corporative benefits) that they could not generate as single players or that is qualitatively better than the benefit achievable through their individual efforts alone.…”

Section: Cooperative Vet In Training Network In Switzerlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This pragmatic and transdisciplinary institutional theory approach is well-established among French economic sociologists and increasingly being adopted also by their German-speaking counterparts. Our attempt is to make productive use of this concept in the organisational and institutional analysis of VET (Imdorf and Leemann 2012;Leemann and Imdorf 2015). The starting point is the assumption that competing and mutually conflicting logics of action and orders of justice (or conventions) co-exist within organisations (Jagd 2011).…”

Section: The Problem Of Free Riding In a Sociology-of-conventions Permentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is designed to bridge the contradictions between the different conventions and to reduce tensions (Knoll 2015, 19;Thévenot 2011). However, this process of designing the organisational structure is fluid and never completed since the solutions achieved through compromises will always create new problems, which the responsible organisational actors again need to address (Leemann and Imdorf 2015).…”

Section: The Problem Of Free Riding In a Sociology-of-conventions Permentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We thus have an example of a problem-solving strategy that creates new problems among the network members. On the perpetual dynamics of problem, solution strategy and new problem, see Leemann and Imdorf 2015. The strategy pursued by external free riders is to meet their demands for qualified junior staff through the short-term "buying" of manpower in the labour market. They act and invest on the rational basis of the market convention and lure the network-trained young specialists with more attractive job offers.…”

Section: Poaching From Outside the Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cooperative VET in Training Networks: Analysing the Free-Rider Problem in a Sociology-of-Conventions Perspective

Leemann¹,

Imdorf

2015

IJRVET

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In training networks, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises pool their resources to train apprentices within the framework of the dual VET system, while an intermediary organisation is tasked with managing operations. Over the course of their apprenticeship, the apprentices switch from one training company to another on a (half-) yearly basis. Drawing on a case study of four training networks in Switzerland and the theoretical framework of the sociology of conventions, this paper aims to understand the reasons for the slow dissemination and reluctant adoption of this promising form of organising VET in Switzerland. The results of the study show that the system of moving from one company to another creates a variety of free-rider constellations in the distribution of the collectively generated corporative benefits. This explains why companies are reluctant to participate in this model. For the network to be sustainable, the intermediary organisation has to address discontent arising from free-rider problems while taking into account that the solutions found are always tentative and will often result in new free-rider problems.

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Section: Cooperative Vet In Training Network In Switzerlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Problem Of Free Riding In a Sociology-of-conventions Permentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Problem Of Free Riding In a Sociology-of-conventions Permentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Poaching From Outside the Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cooperative VET in Training Networks: Analysing the Free-Rider Problem in a Sociology-of-Conventions Perspective

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Imdorf

2015

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“…A civically oriented educational system, on the other hand, not only conveys employment relevant knowledge for a few students but fosters broad, socially relevant general knowledge under the consideration of equality of opportunity when it comes to allocating training positions. By way of their vocation, the coordination principle of inspiration links the employees to their profession (Leemann/Imdorf 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%