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Academic Departments: Recent submissions
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An Introduction to Labor and Employment Law
(SUNY OER Services, 2018)An Introduction to Labor and Employment Discrimination Law is not an attempt to teach law to undergraduates, but rather to introduce them to legal reasoning. The principal means to this end are cases that present competing ... -
Prepared Statement for the National Mediation Board Open Meeting Re: RLA Rulemaking Docket No. C 6964
(2009-12-07)Testimony before the NMB hearings on the proposed rule change to the RLA that recommend changing the voting standard from the majority of eligible voters to the majority of votes cast. The testimony summarized findings ... -
Knowledge Exchange and Combination: The Role of Human Resource Practices in the Performance of High-Technology Firms
(Academy of Management, 2006-06)In this study, we developed and tested a theory of how human resource practices affect the organizational social climate conditions that facilitate knowledge exchange and combination and resultant firm performance. A field ... -
Existing Knowledge, Knowledge Creation Capability, and the Rate of New Product Introduction in High-Technology Firms
(Academy of Management, 2005-04)A field study of top management teams and knowledge workers from 72 technology firms demonstrated that the rate of new product and service introduction was a function of organization members' ability to combine and exchange ... -
Strategic Human Resource Practices, Top Management Team Social Networks, and Firm Performance: The Role of Human Resource Practices in Creating Organizational Competitive Advantage
(Academy of Management, 2003-12)In this article, we begin to explore the black box between human resources (HR) practices and firm performance. Specifically, we examine the relationships between a set of network-building HR practices, aspects of the ... -
A Paradoxical Leadership Model for Social Entrepreneurs: Challenges, Leadership Skills, and Pedagogical Tools for Managing Social and Commercial Demands
(Academy of Management, 2012)Social enterprises offer the promise of financially sustainable organizations that can respond to the world's most pressing problems. Yet for social enterprises to succeed, their leaders must effectively manage conflicting ... -
Multiple Institutional Logics in Organizations: Explaining Their Varied Nature and Implications
(Academy of Management, 2014)Multiple institutional logics present a theoretical puzzle. While scholars recognize their increasing prevalence within organizations, research offers conflicting perspectives on their implications, causing confusion and ... -
The Relational Ecology of Identification: How Organizational Identification Emerges When Individuals Hold Divergent Values
(Academy of Management, 2014)This research builds on theory about how identification develops when members differ in which organizational values they hold to be important. It is relatively well established that conflict and dis-identification arise ... -
Global Competition's Perfect Storm: Why Business and Labor Cannot Solve their Problems Alone
(Academy of Management, 2007-05)A perfect storm is a conjoining of forces that intensifies effects. This commentary addresses the economic perfect storm that the United States and many other developed countries face as they attempt to become globally ... -
Bottom-Up Organizing: HERE in New Haven & Boston
(1986-04-01)[Excerpt] HERE is a union in the process of change. After decades of cooperative relations with management, the union's national leaders were rudely awakened when the major hotel chains jumped on the union-busting bandwagon ...
