The goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of finance and corporate governance reforms on organised labour since 1980. The argument is made that contemporary institutional and ‘Varieties of Capitalism' as well as ‘Varieties of Unionism' perspectives on...

We examine the relations between recent board declassifications, takeover activity and takeover gains over the period 2003-2011. We report that firms that declassified their boards in the previous five years are more likely to be the target of a takeover than other firms. We also report that...

In the three decades after World War II, workers and stockholders shared equitably in the nation’s growing wealth. But, during the last several decades, this fair gainsharing has diminished as the power of the stock market, in the form of institutional investors, has grown, and the comparative...

We examine the relations between recent board declassifications, takeover activity and takeover gains over the period 2003-2014. We report that firms that declassified their boards in the previous five years are more likely to be the target of a takeover compared to firms that remain classified....