governance and review the rationale for what we term strategic partnerships' between management and labor. The paper describes … discussion of strategic issues: negotiated union-management partnership agreements, and union representation on corporate boards …

of directors (employee governance representation, EGR) affect firms' propensity to staff management positions through … likely prefer firms to rely on internal labor markets (ILM) when hiring new managers and (2) conceptualizing the employees …' impact on the staffing of management positions via the efficiency mechanism, related to the positive effects of EGR on the …

work on shareholders and shareholder activism, directors, executives and their compensation, controlling shareholders …

. 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 …

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the …

ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …