Employee Perceptions of Job Influence and Organizational Participation Employee Perceptions

An analysis using British matched employer-employee data finds that workers in establishments operating employee participation schemes feel that they have greater influence over their jobs. Schemes involving broader forms of participation, such as representative participation and briefing groups, are shown to be more strongly associated with greater influence than those of a more focused type, such as quality circles and work teams. There is little evidence of a strong positive interaction between these types of schemes.     

Justice and Union Participation: An Extension and Test of Mobilization Theory

Heeding John Kelly's call to reorient the field of industrial relations towards the study of injustice, we employ mobilization, social exchange and organizational justice theories to specify and test a model of union participation. Using individual‐level survey data from public‐sector union members to test our model, we find that differences in worker perceptions of workplace injustice and union justice explain slightly more variation in members’ union participation than more traditional measures of job satisfaction and union instrumentality perceptions. The implications of our analysis for researchers and union practitioners are also discussed.     

政府采购支出对我国宏观经济影响的实证分析

本文通过建立计量经济学时间序列自回归动态分布滞后模型,对1978～2008年我国政府采购支出项目对GDP增长的贡献进行分析.结果表明,政府采购支出对同期国内生产总值GDP的影响是缺乏弹性的,短期内政府采购支出对我国国内生产总值GDP起到了一定的促进作用,但作用并不十分明显,从跨期来看这种作用反而是负效应.进而得到研究结论:政府采购支出规模对我国宏观经济增长的影响不大,政府采购市场的开放,不会引起我国经济的大幅波动.     

The Effect of U.S. Antidumping Law on Firms' Market Power: An Empirical Test

An empirical version of the Lerner index is used to investigate the market power effects of U.S. firms seeking protection under current antidumping law. The market power consequences are examined for each of the three possible resolutions of an antidumping investigation: petition for relief accepted (and duties levied), petition rejected, or petition withdrawn. For each outcome an industry case study is presented and the market power analysis conducted. The results contained herein support the hypothesis that U.S. firms receiving protection enhance their domestic market power, while firms having their petition rejected experience a decrease in market power. The evidence is less clear for plaintiffs who withdraw their antidumping petition prior to its final resolution.     

消费者在线评论可信度的影响因素研究

将传播学领域考察媒体可信度的霍夫兰德传播说服模型引入在线评论可信度研究,从信源、信息内容、接收者三个角度,在对现有研究梳理和总结的基础上,结合消费者在线评论的特点加入社会影响因素,提出了在线评论可信度影响因素模型,并以第三方评论网站为例,通过实证研究的方式,系统考察了消费者在线评论的可信度影响因素。同时讨论了该研究的局限性、对于管理实践的启示及未来研究方向。     

Successful Innovation Using Strategies to Reduce Consumer Resistance An Empirical Test

This article focuses on a relatively neglected concept in new product management: innovation resistance. Specifically, it examines why consumers develop resistance to innovations at the attitude formation and intention-to-buy stages of their decision process, and what strategies marketing firms have within their direct control to reduce this resistance. S. Ram identifies two major sources of innovation resistance: perceived risk and cognitive resistance. These are studied in the context of four product groups and two distinct strategies to reduce innovation resistance. The results show that a strategy of innovation modification works to reduce resistance caused by perceived economic and functional risk. On the other hand, communication strategies can reduce resistance caused by perceived social or psychological risk. Sources of innovation resistance and appropriate strategies vary across different product groups.     

Residential Investment and Interest Rates: An Empirical Test of Land Development as a Real Option

In real options models, investment can increase under some conditions when interest rates rise. This research tests for these positive interest rate responses in the context of the Capozza–Li model of land development. In the model variable capital intensity is a sufficient condition for positive responses to interest rates that can occur when growth rates are high or uncertainty is high. The empirical analysis uses a panel data set on residential investment in the 1980s and finds that 25–50% of the sample lies in the positive response region.     

Trade Union Influence on Human Resource Management Practices

This paper examines the influence of unions on 37 human resource management practices, ranging from hiring policies to promotion practices. The logistic regression results show that unionization is positively associated with a more formal approach to human resource management. There is, however, a shift from performance-based payment systems and performance appraisal (P.A.) functions in unionized settings. The results also indicate that union firms are more selective of new hires by adopting a formal probationary period for new employees. Last, the estimates suggest that the impact of unions on training programs varies with the nature of the programs.     

Unnatural Extinction: The Rise and Fall of the Independent Local Union

This article analyzes what happened to independent local unions (ILUs), also known as company unions, since 1935. After providing a statistical analysis of ILU membership since 1935, the article looks at the factors that shaped membership trends: changes in labor law, the characteristics of ILUs, worker attitudes toward ILUs, and employers' industrial relations policies. New evidence is presented that suggests that even those employers who still favored ILUs in the 1950s were orienting them away from collective bargaining and toward the "new nonunion model" of the 1960s and 1970s.