This study uses longitudinal data on nearly 300 American employers over the period 1955-85 to analyze the adoption of disciplinary hearings and grievance procedures for nonunion salaried and hourly employees. Hypotheses are developed from an institutional perspective that focuses, first, on...

How did the American system of private, employment-related pension and health insurance arise? Data on corporate fringe-benefit programs during the second quarter of the 20th century contradict the received wisdom that benefits rose in response to wartime federal policy changes and industrial...

In this rich history of management ideology and practice, Mauro Guillen charts the diffusion of scientific management, human relations, and "structural analysis" in the United States, Germany, Spain, and Great Britain during the 20th century

Recent neoinstitutional analyses have associated the rapid diffusion of due-process governance mechanisms in the American workplace with government pressure for equal employment opportunity and affirmative action

The Employment Relationship reports the results of an ambitious research project begun in the early 1980s, in which some 2,000 randomly sampled Chicago-area employees and their employers were surveyed about employment policies and conditions

To examine the effects of policy on markets and competition we outline hypotheses about the effects of three common policy regimes -- public capitalization, pro-cartel, and antitrust -- on competition and the founding of new firms

Over the past two decades, neoinstitutional theory has challenged the dominant functionalist explanations of organizations and has become one of the most creative and promising new paradigms in the social sciences