The effect of unions on profits continues to be an unresolved theoretical and empirical issue. In this paper, clustered data analysis and hierarchical linear meta-regression models are applied to the population of forty-five econometric studies that report 532 estimates of the direct effect of...

The impact of unions on productivity growth has received extensive attention from researchers in industrial relations and economics. Despite a voluminous literature, controversy continues regarding the effect of unions on productivity growth. In this paper, meta-analysis and meta-regression...

The aim of this paper is to present and illustrate the procedure to follow when a researcher wants to use meta-analysis in marketing research. Meta-analysis is the statistical analysis of a large collection of results from individual studies for the purpose of integrating the findings....

A number of conflicting theoretical hypotheses have been advanced regarding the impact of unions on investment behavior. The net impact of unions on investment is thus an empirical issue. In this paper the available empirical literature is reviewed. In addition, new evidence of the impact of...

(VF)Les restructurations occupent une place centrale dans la vie des entreprises occidentales. Or, les preuves de leur capacité à améliorer ou redresser les performances restent ténues et la littérature empirique apporte des résultats ambigus et parfois contradictoires. Cet article a pour...

The impact of unions on profitability is investigated through a comprehensive meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis of the available literature. Drawing upon 57 published empirical studies, with 91,200 observations, the paper establishes a negative and statistically significant union-profit...

In this article we re-examine the relationship between group-based profit sharing and productivity. Our meta-regression analysis of 313 estimates from 56 studies controls for publication selection and misspecification biases and investigates the impact of firm level unionisation and national...