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Workplace quality and labour turnover in the electronics industry of the Pearl River Delta, China

Workplace quality and labour turnover in the electronics industry of the Pearl River Delta, China Abstract Export-oriented manufacturing firms in developing countries need to be highly flexible in order to respond to demand changes in volatile global markets. By using a modified version of Atkinson’s flexible firm concept as a framework, it is the aim of this paper (i) to describe the impact of workplace quality on labour turnover and (ii) to derive implications of this relationship for upgrading processes. Empirical data are combined from two surveys of migrant workers and electronics firms in the Pearl River Delta, China. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie de Gruyter

Workplace quality and labour turnover in the electronics industry of the Pearl River Delta, China

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de Gruyter
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2365-7693
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10.1515/zfw.2012.0005
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Abstract

Abstract Export-oriented manufacturing firms in developing countries need to be highly flexible in order to respond to demand changes in volatile global markets. By using a modified version of Atkinson’s flexible firm concept as a framework, it is the aim of this paper (i) to describe the impact of workplace quality on labour turnover and (ii) to derive implications of this relationship for upgrading processes. Empirical data are combined from two surveys of migrant workers and electronics firms in the Pearl River Delta, China.

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Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie – de Gruyter

Published: Oct 1, 2012

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