This project analyzes the effects of the co-management arrangements built into the first lineof supervision (module advisors) at the Saturn Corporation on first time quality (FTQ)performance and improvements in first time quality. This is a very unique organizationalarrangement wherein...

Designed and implemented as a partnership between GM andthe UAW, Saturn breaks new ground in firm governance,management and industrial relations. Through detailed studyof Saturn's partnership arrangements we have found that thelocal management and union leaders have not only implementedthe...

Designed and implemented as a partnership between GM and the UAW, Saturn breaks new ground in firm governance,management and industrial relations. Through detailed study of Saturn?s partnership arrangements we have found that thelocal management and union leaders have not only implementedthe...

This paper seeks to engage the organization theory community in contemporarydebates over the role of the cxxporation in American society by building a stakeholdertheory of the t%n. We develop a set of normative premises and positivist propositionsderived from these debates, from a combination of...

From the mid-1940s through the 1970s, median wages and productivity growth rose in tandem. Since the 1980s productivity continued to grow steadily while wages stagnated. In this paper we document these trends, explore the reasons for these divergent trends, and outline a mix of policy,...