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Financial Forecasts for the Next Decade
(2000-04-01)[Excerpt] Harold Hovey pointed out that the outlook for state funding of public higher education institutions during the first decade of the 21st century might not be as rosy as it has been during the last five years. The ... -
Financial Intermediaries in the United States: Development and Impact on Firms and Employment Relations
(2014-01-01)[Excerpt] Private equity (PE), hedge funds (HFs), sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), and other private pools of capital form part of the growing shadow banking system in the United States, where these new financial intermediaries ... -
Financial Prospects for American Higher Education in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century
(2001-04-11)[Excerpt] In an important paper written for the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, Harold Hovey pointed out that even if economic growth continued, the outlook for state funding of public higher education ... -
Financing and Restructuring Doctoral Education in the Future
(2010-07-14)[Excerpt] I will argue today that a combination of short- and longer-run economic and political forces pose a threat to the well-being of our nation’s doctoral programs. After briefly touching on the impact of our current ... -
Financing Higher Education Institutions in the 21st Century
(2003-03-29)[Excerpt] My remarks today relate to the “Financing of American Higher Education Institutions in the 21st Century”. Although the discussion has some implications for the ability of students and their families to finance ... -
Firm Performance: Does Executive Compensation Really Matter?
(1989-01-06)[Excerpt] While preparing to write this chapter, we sampled sixty years of media accounts and opinion polls regarding executive compensation. Five recurring themes emerged. -
Flexibility and Fairness in Liberal Market Economies: The Comparative Impact of the Legal Environment and High Performance Work Systems
(2006-03-01)This paper compares management flexibility in employment decision-making in the United States and Canada through a cross-national survey of organizations in representative jurisdictions in each country, Pennsylvania and ... -
Follow the Crowd in a New Direction: When Conformity Pressure Facilitates Group Creativity (And When It Does Not)
(2011-01-01)Adopting a person by situation interaction approach, we identified conditions under which conformity pressure can either stifle or boost group creativity depending on the joint effects of norm content and group personality ... -
For a Dollar, Would You…? How (We Think) Money Affects Compliance with Our Requests
(2016-01-01)Research has shown a robust tendency for people to underestimate their ability to get others to comply with their requests. In five studies, we demonstrate that this underestimation-of-compliance effect is reduced when ... -
For Richer or For Poorer? Evidence from Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela
(2002-12-01)We analyze household income dynamics using longitudinal data from Indonesia, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Spain and Venezuela. In all four countries, households with the lowest reported base-year income experienced the ... -
Forum: Immigration Policy and Skill Shortages
(1990-08-20)[Excerpt] The shortage of a skilled labor force has caused some U.S. employers to look outside national boundaries to fill their needs and caused lawmakers to attempt to alleviate the problem through legislation. But do ... -
Franchisor Power as Employment Control
(University of California Berkeley School of Law, 2021-08)Labor and employment laws are systematically underenforced in low-wage, franchised workplaces. Union contracts, and the benefits and protections they provide, are nonexistent. The Fight for Fifteen movement has brought ... -
Free Speech and Freedom of Association: Finding the Balance
(2013-06-01)[Excerpt] The fundamental right to freedom of association guarantees that workers are able to form and join trade unions free from any interference from employers and governments. This basic principle has been applied ... -
Free Trade, Fair Trade, and the Battle for Labor Rights
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] Labor rights advocacy is the most direct challenge to the primacy of a marketplace ideology in which efficiency and profit are the highest values. Labor rights advocates promote values of fairness, justice, and ... -
Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining in Global Supply Chains: A Research Agenda
(Wiley Periodicals, 2021-04)This article outlines a research agenda for Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining, two fundamental labor rights essential to the achievement of “Decent Work” for workers in global supply chains. The authors argue ... -
From "Professional Business Partner" to "Strategic Talent Leader": "What’s Next" for Human Resource Management
(2002-07-01)The HR profession is at a critical inflection point. It can evolve into a true decision science of talent, and aspire to the level of influence of disciplines such as Finance and Marketing, or it can continue the traditional ... -
From a Mirage to an Oasis: Narcissism, Perceived Creativity, and Creative Performance
(2010-04-01)We examine the link between narcissism and creativity at the individual, relational, and group levels of analysis. We find that narcissists are not necessarily more creative than others but they think they are, and they ... -
From Bureaucracy to Enterprise? The Changing Jobs and Careers of Managers in Telecommunications Service
(1995-01-05)This paper analyzes how organizational restructuring is affecting managerial labor markets. Drawing on field research from several Bell operating companies plus a detailed survey of managers in one company, this paper ... -
From Bureaucracy to Enterprise? The Changing Jobs and Careers of Managers in Telecommunications Service
(1996-01-01)[Excerpt] In response to technological change and product market deregulation, longstanding U.S. telecommunications firms are radically restructuring their business strategies and organizations to improve competitiveness. ... -
From Cautious Optimism to Renewed Pessimism: Labor Voice and Labor Scholarship in China
(SAGE Publications, 2018-09-12)This introductory essay highlights the changing foci of labor scholarship during five distinct periods in the evolution of Chinese industrial relations. In so doing, the author argues that labor scholarship has oscillated ...
