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. It reduces organizing success by lowering profits, thus giving management a greater incentive to oppose unions. It shows … that in the traditional monopoly model, any given premium can cause management to donate more resources to opposing a union …
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We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the … US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …
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promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …
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This paper considers the likely impact that European Union (EU) will have on the labor compact. It is argued that, despite increased economic integration in Europe, countries will still be able to maintain distinct labor practices if they are willing to bear the cost of those practices. The...
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large commercial aircraft. The analysis combines the deep firm- specific knowledge of management and labor typical of the … productivity impacts of movements from traditional adversarial management, which is the norm in this industry, to total quality … management (TQM) and back again. How and why TQM is adopted may be just as important as whether it is adopted. Finally …
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This paper examines the optimality of several seniority provisions which are common to U.S. union contracts. The paper focuses on the attempts by the initial union members to maximize their return from organizing the union. An overlapping generations model is used in the analysis. Seniority wage...
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Asymmetries in labour relations can have important effects on imperfectively competitive rivalries between firms. Such asymmetries are particularly striking in cross-country comparisons and are therefore of greatest interest in international markets. Using a simple duopoly model, we focus on two...
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This paper presents a decomposition of the decline in union density into structural and within sector components using CPS data for private sector workers. We find that 58 to 68 percent of the decline in private sector unionization between 1973 and 1981 can be accounted for by structural changes...
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For many reasons a group of workers may have sufficient bargaining power to claim for themselves some share of any monopoly surplus earned by an enterprise and (in the short run) a share of the return on fixed assets. This paper explores the effect of the threat of collective action on wages and...
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