Originally published in 1986, The Transformation of American Industrial Relations became
an immediate classic, creating a new conceptual framework for understanding contemporary …

The American trade union movement has been characterized by theorists, social critics, and
union practitioners alike as following a" business unionism" philosophy. That is, American …

This article discusses why it is difficult to measure the effects of management practices on
organizational performance. In spite of these difficulties, a collage of evidence suggests that …

The mainstream of organizational literature is generally ambiguous in delineating the concept
of conflict. This paper distinguishes conflict from competition in the intraorganizational …

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS in the American private sector have been changing in important
ways in recent years. Most visibly, significant wage, benefit, work practice, and employment …

This paper seeks to engage the organization theory community in contemporary debates over
the role of the corporation in American society by using the case of the Saturn corporation …

Two competing approaches-exchange and power-dependency-have been used in previous
studies to conceptualize interorganizational relationships. The basic premise of this paper is …

This study analyzes the relationship among plant-level measures of industrial relations
performance, economic performance, and quality-of-working-life programs. The analysis employs …

Computer‐aided monitoring is a phenomenon that is likely to become more prevalent in the
workplace and, thus, central to understanding contemporary employee responses to work. …

This study assesses the relationships among characteristics of industrial relations systems,
efforts to improve the quality of working life, and selected measures of organizational …