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Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations

Appelbaum, Eileen; Hunter, Larry W. - 2021

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 …

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Internal promotion or external hire? : staffing management positions when employees have a seat in the boardroom

Gregorič, Aleksandra; Kato, Takao; Larsen, Casper Berg … - 2024

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 …

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The Effect of the Union Wage Differential on Management Opposition and Union Organizing Success

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

. 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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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world : can unions and industrial competition coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2007

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...

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Explaining cross-national variation in workplace employee representation

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex; George, Anitha - 2016

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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Unions and establishment performance : evidence from the British workplace industrial/employee relations surveys

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s - and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon. In...

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The Impact of New Unionization on Wages and Working Conditions : a Longitudinal Study of Establishments Under Nlrb Elections

Freeman, Richard B. - 2010

This study investigates the impact of union organization on the wages and labor practices of establishments newly organized in the 1980s using a research design in which establishments are 'paired' with their closest nonunion competitor. There are two major findings. First. unionism had only a...

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Worker representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers.

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What does codetermination do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management …

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What Directions for Labor Market Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

In this paper I examine the evolution of labor relations institutions during the initial phase of marketization in Poland, Hungary. and Czechoslovakia and develop a model of changing support for reforms during the transition to a market economy. I find surprising stability in labor institutions...

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