The impact of global economic crisis and austerity on quality of working life and work-life balance: a capabilities perspective
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Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, U., Prouska, R. and Beauregard, T. 2019. The impact of global economic crisis and austerity on quality of working life and work-life balance: a capabilities perspective. European Management Review. 16 (4), pp. 847-862. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12128
| Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Title | The impact of global economic crisis and austerity on quality of working life and work-life balance: a capabilities perspective |
| Authors | Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, U., Prouska, R. and Beauregard, T. |
| Abstract | This paper draws on the capabilities approach as a framework for examining the impact of the global economic crisis and austerity on quality of working life and work-life balance. Our paper focuses on Greece, an extreme case of a country in economic crisis, characterised by a weak institutional basis. We build on the work of Barbara Hobson and colleagues who first applied the capabilities approach to explore work-life balance capabilities. Our study contributes to the development of theory by emphasising the sense of entitlement concept within the capabilities approach and by proposing a modified conceptual framework that encapsulates the link between capabilities, agency, and the sense of entitlement, where the latter acts as a cognitive ‘filter’ that enhances or weakens an individual’s perception of her/his agency to enact on her/his capabilities. Drawing on the accounts of twenty Greek professional and managerial workers, we illustrate how the crisis and austerity measures have eroded working conditions and thus the sense of entitlement, leading to the weakening of our participants’ agency and capabilities to achieve quality of working life and work-life balance. |
| Research Group | Diversity and Gender group |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Journal | European Management Review |
| ISSN | 1740-4754 |
| Electronic | 1740-4762 |
| Publication dates | |
| Online | 17 Jul 2017 |
| 29 Dec 2019 | |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 23 May 2017 |
| Accepted | 18 May 2017 |
| Output status | Published |
| Publisher's version | License |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Copyright Statement | Published version: © 2017 The Authors European Management Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Academy of Management (EURAM)This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12128 |
| Language | English |
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