Since its inaugural issue in 1947, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review (ILRR) has been considered among the foremost industrial relations journals. Prominent among subjects treated by ILRR’s articles in the journal’s early years were collective bargaining and industrial strife, but the...

The purpose of this paper is to extend and test a model proposed by McMillan and colleagues in 1995. That model posited that research-intensive firms that are more 'cooperative' or open in publishing their scientific findings will have higher research and development R&D productivity than more...

Examines the link between public science and thebiotechnology industry in the United States. As knowledge plays an increasingrole in our innovation-based economy, firms at the forefront of industry mustexploit their absorptive capacity, defined as the ability to recognize newinformation,...

Since its inaugural issue in 1947, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review (ILRR) has been considered among the foremost industrial relations journals. Prominent among subjects treated by ILRR’s articles in the journal’s early years were collective bargain¬ing and industrial strife, but...