Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 1017742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Cutcher-Gershenfeld |
| SIGNATURE | CUTCHER-GERSHENFELD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7659-7024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Surprise by Design
Social innovations are at risk at a time when surprise is employed as a unilateral government strategy in order to shrink and refocus government operations. Social innovations involve collective efforts, frequently spanning public and private stakeholders. The needed trust and reciprocal understandings are undercut when government employs the logic of reengineering combined with surprise as a strategy—what we term “Surprise by Design.” This contr…
Labor, Management, Government, and Labor Markets
In September 2022, former students and colleagues of Thomas A. Kochan organized a Festschrift, a "festival of writing," to honor his impact on Industrial Relations and related fields. The Festschrift generated more than two dozen articles and commentaries in a forthcoming book, as well as the four articles featured here in the ILR Review. These articles include "A Tale of Two Locals," focused on contrasting responses to the 2019 GM-UAW strike; "T…
Out of this World
Pivotal Events Driving Organizational and Institutional Transformation
For the Ford Motor Company and the United Automobile Workers Union, fifty-six pivotal events over three decades add up to a transformation in organizational and institutional arrangements. Compared to much of the literature on critical moments, which involves micro analysis of turning points in a single negotiation, this is a meso and macro study where deeply embedded cultural assumptions were “on the table” and, where effectively resolved, const…
Introduction to Special Issue
Negotiated Sharing of Pandemic Data, Models, and Resources
Urgent responses to the COVID-19 pandemic depend on increased collaboration and sharing of data, models, and resources among scientists and researchers. In many scientific fields and disciplines, institutional norms treat data, models, and resources as proprietary, emphasizing competition among scientists and researchers locally and internationally. Concurrently, long-standing norms of open data and collaboration exist in some scientific fields a…
Taking Stock
Examining data from two national surveys of matched pairs of union and management lead negotiators, the authors evaluate the current state of practice in labor relations and test several propositions related to the transformation of American industrial relations. They find that 30-40% of the parties reported that they had introduced negotiated, workplace-level innovations or engaged in strategic-level interactions-both important aspects of transf…
Toward a Theory of Representation in Negotiation
Strategic Negotiations
CONTENTS: Introduction, Human Resources, National Competitiveness, and Employee Welfare. The Mutual Gains Enterprise. Choice and Diffusion of Mutual Gains Strategies. Human Resources and Organizational Governance. The Role of Labour and Worker Representation. Institutions and Policies for Human Resource Development. Toward a Mutual Gains Labour-Management Policy. Building a Mutual Gains coalition
Collective Bargaining in Small Firms
This analysis of 481 negotiations in Michigan over the period 1987-91 suggests that fundamental changes may have occurred recently in collective bargaining in small firms. Only 33% of the negotiations conformed to the traditional model of arm's-length collective bargaining; the balance involved either highly contentious or highly cooperative relations. Further, in only one-sixth (17%) of the cases was the contract settled within one week before o…
Joint Training Programs
New Developments in Worker Training
The Impact on Economic Performance of a Transformation in Workplace Relations
This study examines how a transformation in patterns of conflict and cooperation affected economic performance in 25 work areas of a large, unionized manufacturing facility in the period 1984-87. Unlike most studies of industrial relations and economic performance, this study clearly distinguishes conflict from cooperation but evaluates the two together, rather than focusing on only one. An analysis of data collected from union and employer recor…
Taking on General Motors
Labor-Management Cooperation in American Communities
Area labor-management committees (ALMCs) have been established in over 40 American communities. These committees have the potential, not always realized, to improve dramatically the legitimacy and power accorded to unions at the community level. While separate from the collective bargaining process, ALMCs do contribute to improved communications and other changes at the bargaining table. They also can serve as a unique forum to assist local emplo…
The Impact on Economic Performance of a Transformation in Workplace Relations
This study examines how a transformation in patterns of conflict and cooperation affected economic performance in 25 work areas of a large, unionized manufacturing facility in the period 1984-87. Unlike most studies of industrial relations and economic performance, this study clearly distinguishes conflict from cooperation but evaluates the two together, rather than focusing on only one. An analysis of data collected from union and employer recor…
Taking Stock
Examining data from two national surveys of matched pairs of union and management lead negotiators, the authors evaluate the current state of practice in labor relations and test several propositions related to the transformation of American industrial relations. They find that 30-40% of the parties reported that they had introduced negotiated, workplace-level innovations or engaged in strategic-level interactions-both important aspects of transf…
Labor-Management Cooperation in American Communities
Area labor-management committees (ALMCs) have been established in over 40 American communities. These committees have the potential, not always realized, to improve dramatically the legitimacy and power accorded to unions at the community level. While separate from the collective bargaining process, ALMCs do contribute to improved communications and other changes at the bargaining table. They also can serve as a unique forum to assist local emplo…
Labor-Management Cooperation in American Communities
Area labor-management committees (ALMCs) have been established in over 40 American communities. These committees have the potential, not always realized, to improve dramatically the legitimacy and power accorded to unions at the community level. While separate from the collective bargaining process, ALMCs do contribute to improved communications and other changes at the bargaining table. They also can serve as a unique forum to assist local emplo…
Taking on General Motors
The Impact on Economic Performance of a Transformation in Workplace Relations
This study examines how a transformation in patterns of conflict and cooperation affected economic performance in 25 work areas of a large, unionized manufacturing facility in the period 1984-87. Unlike most studies of industrial relations and economic performance, this study clearly distinguishes conflict from cooperation but evaluates the two together, rather than focusing on only one. An analysis of data collected from union and employer recor…
New Developments in Worker Training
Joint Training Programs
Collective Bargaining in Small Firms
This analysis of 481 negotiations in Michigan over the period 1987-91 suggests that fundamental changes may have occurred recently in collective bargaining in small firms. Only 33% of the negotiations conformed to the traditional model of arm's-length collective bargaining; the balance involved either highly contentious or highly cooperative relations. Further, in only one-sixth (17%) of the cases was the contract settled within one week before o…
Strategic Negotiations
CONTENTS: Introduction, Human Resources, National Competitiveness, and Employee Welfare. The Mutual Gains Enterprise. Choice and Diffusion of Mutual Gains Strategies. Human Resources and Organizational Governance. The Role of Labour and Worker Representation. Institutions and Policies for Human Resource Development. Toward a Mutual Gains Labour-Management Policy. Building a Mutual Gains coalition
Toward a Theory of Representation in Negotiation
Taking Stock
Examining data from two national surveys of matched pairs of union and management lead negotiators, the authors evaluate the current state of practice in labor relations and test several propositions related to the transformation of American industrial relations. They find that 30-40% of the parties reported that they had introduced negotiated, workplace-level innovations or engaged in strategic-level interactions-both important aspects of transf…
Pivotal Events Driving Organizational and Institutional Transformation
For the Ford Motor Company and the United Automobile Workers Union, fifty-six pivotal events over three decades add up to a transformation in organizational and institutional arrangements. Compared to much of the literature on critical moments, which involves micro analysis of turning points in a single negotiation, this is a meso and macro study where deeply embedded cultural assumptions were “on the table” and, where effectively resolved, const…
Introduction to Special Issue
Negotiated Sharing of Pandemic Data, Models, and Resources
Urgent responses to the COVID-19 pandemic depend on increased collaboration and sharing of data, models, and resources among scientists and researchers. In many scientific fields and disciplines, institutional norms treat data, models, and resources as proprietary, emphasizing competition among scientists and researchers locally and internationally. Concurrently, long-standing norms of open data and collaboration exist in some scientific fields a…
Out of this World
Labor, Management, Government, and Labor Markets
In September 2022, former students and colleagues of Thomas A. Kochan organized a Festschrift, a "festival of writing," to honor his impact on Industrial Relations and related fields. The Festschrift generated more than two dozen articles and commentaries in a forthcoming book, as well as the four articles featured here in the ILR Review. These articles include "A Tale of Two Locals," focused on contrasting responses to the 2019 GM-UAW strike; "T…
Surprise by Design
Social innovations are at risk at a time when surprise is employed as a unilateral government strategy in order to shrink and refocus government operations. Social innovations involve collective efforts, frequently spanning public and private stakeholders. The needed trust and reciprocal understandings are undercut when government employs the logic of reengineering combined with surprise as a strategy—what we term “Surprise by Design.” This contr…
Political science (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Negotiation (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Industrial Relations (4 works) · Industrial relations (4 works)