In the throes of the automotive industrys collapse, General Motors (GM) and the United Auto Workers (UAW) agreed to a plan for making the companys U.S. assembly plants more competitive through greater labor-management collaboration. The partnership between the union and the employer at GMs...

This dissertation examines cross-national differences in the extent to which CEOs matter to firm outcomes. To address this issue, I build on the construct of managerial discretion, or latitude of action. Most research in this domain has focused on the firm-level and industry-level factors that...