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The paper develops a model of trade union behaviour based on the concept of the viable bargaining unit. Bargaining unit viability rests on five conditions; membership level, service level, membership participation, employer recognition and facilities. Viability is achieved by mobilisation of...
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Contemporary political, economic and social conditions heighten the demand placed upon organizations to create strategy …-year research project studying strategic responses to the competitive emergence of electronic trading at the major international … financial futures exchanges (1998-200). The term ‘strategic risk positioning’ is used as a central organizing concept to draw …
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This article develops a strategic framework for regulators to employ when choosing intervention strategies for dealing …
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In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …
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decline of ‘bureaucratic’ models of employee management and the rise of performance pay and performance management conflicts … with the common rule as management seek to tie rewards more closely to individual and organisational performance. CEP … employees regard unions as effective vehicles for procedural justice. In this way, management can achieve better operation of …
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We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …
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We detail the methodology that we have been using to quantify managerial and organizational practices across firms and countries in recent years. This has been used in many pieces of research at the Centre for Economic Performance. We discuss the pros and cons of such survey tools, describing...
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John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on policies to foster competition.
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The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first … large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured … management practices are tightly linked to higher levels of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on …
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significant “diversity bonus” for all types of London firms. First, companies with diverse management are more likely to introduce …
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