Patricia Klobus Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 183258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Klobus Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia Klobus |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2946-8577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The contingencies of corporate failure: The case of Lucas industries
Most accounts of corporate failure offer explanation in terms of fundamental changes in the environment or strategic inertia. The case of Lucas Industries is different: a firm that was actively restructuring itself but still lost its 100-year-old identity in 1996 as a result of a merger. The firm actively pursued the merger but found that the smaller merger partner in fact became dominant. Comparative analysis with other firms, together with inte…
A realist alternative to meta-analysis: Two papers
Meta-analysis (the statistical combination of a set of studies in a given area, with the aim of establishing an overall or average effect of something) is increasingly common in work and organization studies. Critiques of meta-analysis are now common. There is also a well-known alternative based in realism. The purpose in bringing together the two papers by Nielsen and Miraglia and by Vincent and colleagues is not to rehearse the critiques or sim…
Introductory note
The topic of this special issue is an important and timely one, as all the articles explain. It is also a particularly challenging one for scholars: just how we turn the injunction to connect organizations to inequality into a meaningful research programme is harder than might seem. I am thus particularly grateful to the special issue editors for defining an agenda and producing a set of articles that addresses it. Given that the agenda is challe…
Human Resource Management Practices in the Multinational Company: A Test of System, Societal, and Dominance Effects
Does the use of HRM practices by multinational companies (MNCs) reflect their national origins or are practices similar regardless of context? To the extent that practices are similar, is there any evidence of global best standards? The authors use the system, societal, and dominance framework to address these questions through analysis of 1,100 MNC subsidiaries in Canada, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. They argue that this framework off…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ordinary: Work Identities in “Good” and “Bad” Jobs in the United Kingdom
Much debate exists about postbureaucratic organizational forms that are sometimes felt to strengthen the polarization between good and bad jobs. Small firms provide one test in that they lack bureaucracy. Such firms from two contrasting sectors, food manufacture and the media, are used to assess, respectively, the models of good and bad jobs. Data from 66 firms and 203 employees show a mixed picture: Food jobs are bad for pay but relatively good …
Why Does Employment Legislation Not Damage Small Firms
Business rhetoric and conventional theory expect that employment regulations will have negative effects on small firms. Prior research has shown that effects are quite rare, but has not explained why. Case studies of 18 firms from three sectors identified four explanations. (1) Perceptions of effects tend to be broad and general, rather than reflections of concrete experience. (2) ‘The law’ is not uniform, with older laws being largely taken for …
Commitment at Work and Independence From Management: A Study of Advanced Teamwork
This article examines a case of advanced teamwork in a Canadian aluminum smelter. It demonstrates a pattern of high commitment at work and acceptance of change combined with a robust independence of workers from management. Control is no longer exerted at the level of work execution but is moved a step higher in the conception and monitoring of production, thus opening the way for workers' self-regulation. The explanation for this pattern lies in…
From the Guest Editors
Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge
Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge
Disciplinary Practice: A Study of Railways in Britain, 1860-1988
Does disciplinary practice by employers evolve over time? Not only conventional analyses of discipline but also Foucauldian theories assume that it does. Three features may be tested: the rate of discipline (which should fall); the types of behaviour punished (which should reflect the maintenance of routine); and the dynamics of the process (which should indicate a rationalised approach and the absence of disciplinary purges). Yet there are very …
Reform and Economic Development: Attitudinal Dimensions of Metropolitan Consolidation
This study examines the degree to which citizen perceptions of the need for government reform and economic development relate to their support for city-county consolidation. Findings from a study of residents in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia, a metropolitan area that attempted merger in 1991, indicate that attitudinal dimensions of reform and economic development are more efficacious in predicting support for, or opposition to, consolidation tha…
Managing the Factory
The Social Organization of Industrial Conflict: Control and Resistance in the Workplace
Conflict at Work
Industrial Discipline, the Control of Attendance, and the Subordination of Labour: Towards an Integrated Analysis
The operation of discipline in the workplace has received little attention in sociology; the control of attendance has attracted even less. Yet they have taken on a growing significance in many firms, and help to throw light on more general issues of new forms of the control of labour. Material from two case studies is used to show why firms are changing their policies and to explore the effect on workplace relations. Disciplinary regimes have be…
Homogenise, divide and rule: An essay on Segmented Work, Divided Workers
Peter Nolan, P. K. Edwards; Homogenise, divide and rule: an essay on Segmented Work, Divided Workers, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 June
Women, Work, and Social Participation
The Social Organization of Industrial Conflict
Alienation and Authenticity: Some Consequences for Organised Work
Homogeiniza, Divide y Manda: Un Ensayo Sobre Trabajo Segmentado, Trabajadores Divididos
o y lo concreto. El resultado es una aparente estructura clara de sus argumentos que, sin embargo, se obstruye al ser estos examinados detenidamente. La «interaccion» de conceptos permite que material de niveles de analisis muy diferentes se combine de forma mas o menos ambitraria. Reiteramos que nada de esto pretende condenar los ejercicios de sintesis; sin embargo, la logica de la teoria de alcance intermedio fuerza a los autores a intentar reu…
Strikes in the United States, 1881-1974
Recruiting and Retaining Human Service Volunteers: An Empirical Analysis
Organizations generally are conceded to have two functions: the production of goods and services (the economic function) and the creation and distribu-tion of satisfactions within the organization (the maintenance function) (Roethlisberger and Dickson, 1969). When maintenance functions well, job satisfaction increases and employee turnover is minimized. This not only enhances morale but also improves production, positively affects organiza-tional…
New Strategic Perspectives on Social Policy
Strikes in the United States, 1881-1974
The Good, the Bad, and the Ordinary: Work Identities in “Good” and “Bad” Jobs in the United Kingdom
Much debate exists about postbureaucratic organizational forms that are sometimes felt to strengthen the polarization between good and bad jobs. Small firms provide one test in that they lack bureaucracy. Such firms from two contrasting sectors, food manufacture and the media, are used to assess, respectively, the models of good and bad jobs. Data from 66 firms and 203 employees show a mixed picture: Food jobs are bad for pay but relatively good …
Race, residence, and leisure style: Some policy implications
The relationships between race, residence, and leisure style are examined to ascertain if leisure differences are a consequence of subcultural diversity (ethnicity) or differential allocation of recreational resources (marginality). Findings obtained from a sample of urban blacks and whites indicate that ethnicity is a factor that should be considered in the planning and placement of public recreation programs. However, for blacks living in predo…
A Critique of the Kerr-Siegel Hypothesis of Strikes and the Isolated Mass: A Study of the Falsification of Sociological Knowledge
Industrial Discipline, the Control of Attendance, and the Subordination of Labour: Towards an Integrated Analysis
The operation of discipline in the workplace has received little attention in sociology; the control of attendance has attracted even less. Yet they have taken on a growing significance in many firms, and help to throw light on more general issues of new forms of the control of labour. Material from two case studies is used to show why firms are changing their policies and to explore the effect on workplace relations. Disciplinary regimes have be…
Commitment at Work and Independence From Management: A Study of Advanced Teamwork
This article examines a case of advanced teamwork in a Canadian aluminum smelter. It demonstrates a pattern of high commitment at work and acceptance of change combined with a robust independence of workers from management. Control is no longer exerted at the level of work execution but is moved a step higher in the conception and monitoring of production, thus opening the way for workers' self-regulation. The explanation for this pattern lies in…
Disciplinary Practice: A Study of Railways in Britain, 1860-1988
Does disciplinary practice by employers evolve over time? Not only conventional analyses of discipline but also Foucauldian theories assume that it does. Three features may be tested: the rate of discipline (which should fall); the types of behaviour punished (which should reflect the maintenance of routine); and the dynamics of the process (which should indicate a rationalised approach and the absence of disciplinary purges). Yet there are very …
Housing Type, Stress, and Family Relations
Journal Article Housing Type, Stress, and Family Relations Get access John N. Edwards, John N. Edwards Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patricia Klobus Edwards, Patricia Klobus Edwards Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan Booth Alan Booth University of Nebraska-Lin…
The Social Organization of Industrial Conflict
Why Does Employment Legislation Not Damage Small Firms
Business rhetoric and conventional theory expect that employment regulations will have negative effects on small firms. Prior research has shown that effects are quite rare, but has not explained why. Case studies of 18 firms from three sectors identified four explanations. (1) Perceptions of effects tend to be broad and general, rather than reflections of concrete experience. (2) ‘The law’ is not uniform, with older laws being largely taken for …
Human Resource Management Practices in the Multinational Company: A Test of System, Societal, and Dominance Effects
Does the use of HRM practices by multinational companies (MNCs) reflect their national origins or are practices similar regardless of context? To the extent that practices are similar, is there any evidence of global best standards? The authors use the system, societal, and dominance framework to address these questions through analysis of 1,100 MNC subsidiaries in Canada, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. They argue that this framework off…
Deviancy Theory and Industrial Praxis: A Study of Discipline and Social Control in an Industrial Setting
Several approaches within the sociology of deviance stress the role of agents of control in the definition of behaviour as socially significant forms of rule-breaking. Yet studies of the operation of social control are rare. The paper takes up the attempt by Ditton, in Contrology, to develop a theory of crime in terms of the actions of controllers. It is suggested that Ditton's account gives insufficient attention to the constraints on controller…
Introductory note
The topic of this special issue is an important and timely one, as all the articles explain. It is also a particularly challenging one for scholars: just how we turn the injunction to connect organizations to inequality into a meaningful research programme is harder than might seem. I am thus particularly grateful to the special issue editors for defining an agenda and producing a set of articles that addresses it. Given that the agenda is challe…
Managing the Factory
Reform and Economic Development: Attitudinal Dimensions of Metropolitan Consolidation
This study examines the degree to which citizen perceptions of the need for government reform and economic development relate to their support for city-county consolidation. Findings from a study of residents in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia, a metropolitan area that attempted merger in 1991, indicate that attitudinal dimensions of reform and economic development are more efficacious in predicting support for, or opposition to, consolidation tha…
Alienation and Authenticity: Some Consequences for Organised Work
Attachment to Work and Absence Behavior
The Need for and Education of Negro Business Men
The economic arrangement under which the Negro race in the United States makes its living is a decidedly unbalanced one. On the one hand, the Negro plays little creative part in the economy of the general community; on the other, he has made no appreciable headway in the development of a well-balanced economy in his own many more-or-less segregated race communities scattered across the country.' A look to the future would make reasonable the conc…
A Critique of the Kerr-Siegel Hypothesis of Strikes and the Isolated Mass: A Study of the Falsification of Sociological Knowledge
I. Revolution in Industrial Societies
Attachment to Work and Absence Behavior
Race, residence, and leisure style: Some policy implications
The relationships between race, residence, and leisure style are examined to ascertain if leisure differences are a consequence of subcultural diversity (ethnicity) or differential allocation of recreational resources (marginality). Findings obtained from a sample of urban blacks and whites indicate that ethnicity is a factor that should be considered in the planning and placement of public recreation programs. However, for blacks living in predo…
Housing Type, Stress, and Family Relations
Journal Article Housing Type, Stress, and Family Relations Get access John N. Edwards, John N. Edwards Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patricia Klobus Edwards, Patricia Klobus Edwards Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan Booth Alan Booth University of Nebraska-Lin…
Deviancy Theory and Industrial Praxis: A Study of Discipline and Social Control in an Industrial Setting
Several approaches within the sociology of deviance stress the role of agents of control in the definition of behaviour as socially significant forms of rule-breaking. Yet studies of the operation of social control are rare. The paper takes up the attempt by Ditton, in Contrology, to develop a theory of crime in terms of the actions of controllers. It is suggested that Ditton's account gives insufficient attention to the constraints on controller…
Recruiting and Retaining Human Service Volunteers: An Empirical Analysis
Organizations generally are conceded to have two functions: the production of goods and services (the economic function) and the creation and distribu-tion of satisfactions within the organization (the maintenance function) (Roethlisberger and Dickson, 1969). When maintenance functions well, job satisfaction increases and employee turnover is minimized. This not only enhances morale but also improves production, positively affects organiza-tional…
New Strategic Perspectives on Social Policy
Strikes in the United States, 1881-1974
Homogenise, divide and rule: An essay on Segmented Work, Divided Workers
Peter Nolan, P. K. Edwards; Homogenise, divide and rule: an essay on Segmented Work, Divided Workers, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 June
Women, Work, and Social Participation
The Social Organization of Industrial Conflict
Alienation and Authenticity: Some Consequences for Organised Work
Homogeiniza, Divide y Manda: Un Ensayo Sobre Trabajo Segmentado, Trabajadores Divididos
o y lo concreto. El resultado es una aparente estructura clara de sus argumentos que, sin embargo, se obstruye al ser estos examinados detenidamente. La «interaccion» de conceptos permite que material de niveles de analisis muy diferentes se combine de forma mas o menos ambitraria. Reiteramos que nada de esto pretende condenar los ejercicios de sintesis; sin embargo, la logica de la teoria de alcance intermedio fuerza a los autores a intentar reu…
Strikes in the United States, 1881-1974
Managing the Factory
The Social Organization of Industrial Conflict: Control and Resistance in the Workplace
Conflict at Work
Industrial Discipline, the Control of Attendance, and the Subordination of Labour: Towards an Integrated Analysis
The operation of discipline in the workplace has received little attention in sociology; the control of attendance has attracted even less. Yet they have taken on a growing significance in many firms, and help to throw light on more general issues of new forms of the control of labour. Material from two case studies is used to show why firms are changing their policies and to explore the effect on workplace relations. Disciplinary regimes have be…
Reform and Economic Development: Attitudinal Dimensions of Metropolitan Consolidation
This study examines the degree to which citizen perceptions of the need for government reform and economic development relate to their support for city-county consolidation. Findings from a study of residents in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia, a metropolitan area that attempted merger in 1991, indicate that attitudinal dimensions of reform and economic development are more efficacious in predicting support for, or opposition to, consolidation tha…
Disciplinary Practice: A Study of Railways in Britain, 1860-1988
Does disciplinary practice by employers evolve over time? Not only conventional analyses of discipline but also Foucauldian theories assume that it does. Three features may be tested: the rate of discipline (which should fall); the types of behaviour punished (which should reflect the maintenance of routine); and the dynamics of the process (which should indicate a rationalised approach and the absence of disciplinary purges). Yet there are very …
Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge
Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge
From the Guest Editors
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