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Labor Unions

Known as: Unions, Labor, Union, Labor, Labor Union 
Organizations comprising wage and salary workers in health-related fields for the purpose of improving their status and conditions. The concept… Expand
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Review
2017
Review
2017
Informed Preferences? The Impact of Unions on Workers' Policy Views
Despite declining memberships, labor unions still represent large shares of electorates worldwide. Yet their political clout… Expand
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
From 1973 to 2007, private sector union membership in the United States declined from 34 to 8 percent for men and from 16 to 6… Expand
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Labor Unions, Operating Flexibility, and the Cost of Equity
We study whether the constraints on firms’ operations imposed by labor unions affect firms’ costs of equity. The cost of equity… Expand
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Corporate Governance and Risk Taking
Better investor protection could lead corporations to undertake riskier but value-enhancing investments. For example, better… Expand
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Capitalism
This article analyzes the rise and diffusion of the new order of regulatory capitalism. It offers an analytical and historical… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Rational Choice Theory and the Paradox of Not Voting
At least since Downs’s (1957) seminal work An Economic Theory of Democracy, rational choice theorists have appreciated the… Expand
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement1
This article addresses the question of how social movement organizations are able to break out of bureaucratic conservatism. In… Expand
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable
Nothing inherent in the discipline steers planners either toward environmental protection or toward economic development -- or… Expand
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
The Evolution of Markets and Entry, Exit and Survival of Firms
This paper examines entry, exit, and the survival of firms in terms of evolutionary changes in the market from the first… Expand
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Organization Theory and the Market for Corporate Control: A Dynamic Analysis of the Characteristics of Large Takeover Targets, 1980-1990
Gerald F. Davis Northwestern University Suzanne K. Stout University of Texas at Dallas This paper describes how takeovers are… Expand
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