Decentralization, market, and aspiration: Dimensions of the control mechanism of the transnational online english education industry

Purpose
The purpose of this research is to examine the three-dimensional control mechanisms in the transnational online English education sector and go forward with labor control studies.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper obtains the data from subjective methods. The empirical materials are based on interviews with the Filipino online teachers and English learners who have purchased this service.
Results
The intermediary firm has devised the control mechanism through the decentered management system, adaptive market grasp in the Philippines' labor market, and English learners' desires for mobility. Such strategies control labor process are conducted by using a decentered management system, maintain and deepen control by seizing the market by taking advantage of the "employee-recognition" tactics and the desires for social and transnational mobility of the pupils.
Conclusion
The mechanism of control of transnational online English education is effective and feasible, because it reflects and applies the macro political and economic order described by Wallerstein in his "World System" theory.