Industry Studies/Strategies

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Larry Hunter

Over the past two decades a large number of academics and industry leaders have been engaged in industry-specific studies of how to achieve both high levels of firm performance and good wages and working conditions. These are often labeled “high-road” strategies. This research cluster summarizes the lessons learned from these studies and explores options for diffusing these high-road strategies more broadly within and across industries and occupations.

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Lauren D. Appelbaum's picture
Project Labor Agreements in Los Angeles

This Research & Policy Brief provides a discussion of project labor agreements and their role in creating high-road construction...

Project Labor Agreements in Los Angeles
Lauren D. Appelbaum | December 15, 2011
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The U.S. Auto Supply Chain at a Crossroads

"The U.S. Auto Supply Chain at a Crossroads" is part of a project of a research consortium of the Indiana, Michigan and Ohio...

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Susan Helper | August 16, 2011
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Twilight of the Berle and Means Corp.

A decade into the twenty-first century, the American public corporation described by Berle and Means in 1932 may have reached its...

Twilight of Berle and Means Corp
Gerald F. Davis | July 26, 2011
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High-Performance Work Practices and Sustainable Economic Growth

This paper provides the best and most up-to-date summary of the evidence on the effects of what are popularly called “high-...

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Jody Hoffer Gittell | April 20, 2011
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Crumbling Infrastructure, Crumbling Democracy: Infrastructure Privatization Contracts and Their Effects on State and Local Governance

This Article examines the operation and effects of three provisions that are commonly found in infrastructure contracts: (1)...

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Ellen Dannin | March 2, 2011
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A Green Industrial Relations System for Construction

Forecasts about future employment in “green construction” imply sizeable growth in the next decade. If growth is even half of that...

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David Weil | December 15, 2010
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Stakeholder Alignment in Complex Systems

The political, economic and social landscapes of the 21st Century are increasingly dominated by complex, sociotechnical systems that are...

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Joel Cutcher-Ge... | November 30, 2010
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