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A New Conceptualization of Union Commitment: Development and Test of and Integrated Theory
(1995-01-01)An introductory conceptual and empirical review stresses the need for a stable theoretical basis for union commitment research. The purpose of this paper is to develop a new conceptualization of union commitment based on ... -
A New Theory of Group Solidarity
(1994-01-01)This paper examines previous conceptualizations of group solidarity and related concepts in the sociological and social psychological literatures. After identifying ambiguities in previous usages, we define solidarity in ... -
A Policy Capturing Approach to Individuals' Decisions to be Absent
(1991-04-01)This study provided a within-subjects assessment of the factors associated with an individual's decision to be absent, and examined whether there were differences between individuals in their decisions. A sample of maintenance ... -
A Preliminary Report on Non-Faculty Bargaining at Colleges and Universities - 1993
(1992-11-01)[Excerpt] Although we will present more detailed data in subsequent sections, we would like to present a few key pieces of information here. Public sector campuses are substantially more likely to be unionized than private ... -
A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability
(2012-02-01)[Excerpt] Private equity, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and other private pools of capital form part of the growing shadow banking system in the United States; these new financial intermediaries provide an alternative ... -
A Public Lecture: Labour Markets and Economic Development
(2006-06-01)[Excerpt] I want to put forward three propositions to you based on decades of work in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. First, economic development can be (but need not be) a win-win-win situation - for businesses, for ... -
A Qualitative Investigation of the Human Resource Management Practices in Small Businesses
(2004-04-01)This report provides a summary of our findings from the first phase of our study on human resource practices in small businesses based on qualitative interviews with top managers and owners of small businesses. Below we ... -
A Qualitative Investigation of the Human Resources Management Practices in Small Businesses
(2004-10-01)This report provides a summary of our findings from the first phase of our study on human resource practices in small businesses based on qualitative interviews with top managers and owners of small businesses. Below we ... -
A Question of Timing
(2007-01-01)US labour law violates ILO standards not at the margins, but at the core. -
A Resource-Based View Of International Human Resources: Toward A Framework of Integrative and Creative Capabilities
(2005-08-01)Drawing on organizational learning and MNC perspectives, we extend the resource-based view to address how international human resource management provides sustainable competitive advantage. We develop a framework that ... -
A Retrospective on the PATCO Strategy
(1986-01-01)[Excerpt] The destruction of PATCO has been written off by most labor leaders as the inevitable result of an ill-conceived challenge to an anti-union U.S. President. Although there is widespread sympathy for the rank and ... -
A Risk-Return Paradox: Risk, Performance-Based Pay and Performance
(1993-11-17)[Excerpt] In recent years, strategy researchers have examined the relationship between business risk and performance. The logic underlying this relationship is that organizations facing greater business risk seek to offset ... -
A Role-Based Taxonomy of Human Resource Organizations
(1992-07-10)[Excerpt] An empirically-derived classification (taxonomy) of human resource "departments", based on a few fundamental roles played in organizations, was developed as an alternative to the mostly speculative existing ... -
A Second Look at the Hormel Strike
(1986-01-01)[Excerpt] The dispute between the United Food and Commercial Workers and its Local P-9 over the long strike at Geo. A. Hormel & Co.'s meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota has put labor activists on two sides of an emotional ... -
A Service Union’s Dilemma: Limitations on Creative Action in German Industrial Relations
(2012-01-01)This article examines union responses to the reorganization of call centre work in Germany, drawing on case studies from the telecommunications, financial services and subcontractor industries. Service unions initially ... -
A Shield Against Corporate Bullying
(2007-02-27)[Excerpt] Workers should be able to organize without fear-mongering by bosses or, by the same token, pressure from union organizers. This is how the card-based system already works; safeguards against undue pressure from ... -
A SHRM Perspective on International Compensation and Reward Systems
(1998-05-02)We re-examine the efficacy of the SHRM perspective from the vantage point of a specific HRM system, international compensation and rewards, to gain new insights into existing conceptual models. Looking at SHRM from the ... -
A Signaling/Bonding Model of Employer Finance of General Training
(1988-09-15)[Excerpt] This paper challenges the general validity of these simple predictions. It begins in section 2 by presenting empirical evidence that (1) trainees often do not have to accept lower wage jobs in order to obtain ... -
A Social Dimension for Transatlantic Economic Relations
(2010-01-01)Transatlantic Economic Relations (TER) was neglected by politi¬cians for much of the twentieth century as international security issues took priority. Since the end of the Cold War, however, and as economic issues have ... -
A State’s Gendered Response to Political Instability: Gendering Labor Policy in Semi-Authoritarian El Salvador (1944-1972)
(2002-01-01)Unlike much of the gender and welfare literature, this study examines why a regime that constrains pressure from below would adopt gendered social policies. The Salvadoran case (1944-1972) suggests that political instability ...
