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Employee voice and private sector workplace outcomes in Britain, 1980 - 2004

Gomez, Rafael; Bryson, Alex; Kretschmer, Tobias; … - 2009

Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This paper provides a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice and workplace outcomes that explains this development. As exit-voice theory...

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The distinct effects of information technology and communication technology on firm organization

Bloom, Nicholas; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2009

their managers, and lead to centralization. Using an original dataset of firms in the US and seven European countries we … find that better information technologies (Enterprise Resource Planning for plant managers and CAD/CAM for production … networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Our findings are robust to using exogenous variation in cross …

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Collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition

Magda, Iga; Marsden, David; Moriconi, Simone - 2009

Using a large matched employer-employee dataset, the authors investigate the relationship between collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They adopt a natural experiment approach and capture...

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Individual voice in employment relationships : a comparison under different collective voice regimes

Marsden, David - 2010

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Individualisation and growing diversity of employment relationships

Brown, William Arthur; Marsden, David - 2010

At a time when the economic recession is more severe, and trade unions are weaker, than at any time since the War, it would be unproductive to speculate about the extent to which these changes have been imposed, acquiesced, or agreed by the workers concerned. Instead we focus on recent changes...