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Paradise Lost Revisited: GM and the UAW in Historical Perspective
de Gier, Erik (2010-09-01)Purpose Analysis of historic relationship between GM and Union of Automobile Workers (UAW) from 1936 through the moment of bankruptcy of GM in 2009. How can this historic relationship be explained from the viewpoint of ... -
New Deal Labor Reforms and their Aftermath: The Flawed Evolution of the American Labor-Management Model as Regards Center Firms, 1945-1980
de Gier, Erik (2011-02-01)Between 1945-1980, there existed a social compact between the three main parties involved. However, from the onset one or more of the three parties contested this social compact almost permanently. As a result, about 1980 ... -
Industrial Novels in Perspective of Industrial Sociology: A Comparison Between Weimar Germany and post-WWII Italy
de Gier, Erik (2017-10-01)[Excerpt] Since the English Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century, almost up to the present century, the so-called industrial novel played a significant role in many industrializing and industrialized countries ... -
The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited: Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector (2010-07-12)This paper challenges the prevailing view of the neutrality of the labour income share to labour demand, and investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run ... -
An Institutionalist Perspective on the Global Financial Crisis
Whalen, Charles J. (2009-04-01)This essay, prepared for a forthcoming collection of perspectives on the current world economic crisis, offers an institutionalist viewpoint on the financial crisis at the center of world attention since mid-2008. It is ... -
Factor Shares, the Price Markup, and the Elasticity of Substitution Between Capital and Labor
Raurich, Xavier; Sala, Hector; Sorolla, Valeri (2010-07-23)The labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production function and perfect competition. This paper relaxes these assumptions and investigates to what extent the actual non-constant behavior ... -
Sull’inadempimento dell’obbligazione contributiva nella previdenza complementare
Faioli, Michele (2008-02-18)Sommario: 1. Premessa. Appartenenza e libertà individuale. - 2. Soggetti del rapporto contributivo: modalità di adesione, profilo positivo e negativo della libertà di adesione e conferimento tacito inteso come mancato ... -
What is Strategic Competence and Does it Matter? Exposition of the Concept and a Research Agenda
Sparrow, Paul R.; Hodgkinson, Gerard P. (2006-01-01)Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical insights from strategic management and the cognitive and organizational sciences, we argue that strategic competence constitutes the ability of organizations and the individuals ... -
Globalisation of HR at Function Level: Exploring the Issues Through International Recruitment, Selection and Assessment Processes
Sparrow, Paul R. (2006-01-12)Much of the debate around convergence-divergence is based around comparative analysis of HR systems. However, we need now to combine these insights with work in the field of IHRM on firm-level motivations to optimise, ... -
Labor Regulations and Unionization Trends: Comparative Analysis of Latin American Countries
Marshall, Adriana (2005-09-01)This paper discusses the influences of labor regulations on unionization rates through the comparative analysis of Argentina, Chile and Mexico, expecting to contribute to the understanding of the determinants of unionization ...