William N Cooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 983500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William N Cooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | William N |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooke |
| SIGNATURE | COOKE W N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Influence of Industrial Relations Factors on U.S. Foreign Direct Investment Abroad
Although managers of multinational companies have identified labor practices and regulations, access to skilled labor, and similar factors as important considerations in foreign direct investment decision-making, few studies have empirically examined the influence of industrial relations factors on foreign direct investment. Applying a transaction costs framework to U.S. Department of Commerce data published in 1992, the author examines the influ…
The Determinants of NLRB Decision-Making Revisited
The authors develop a model of NLRB decision-making that, unlike the models employed in previous studies, distinguishes between decision-making in more important, complex cases and less important, simpler cases. Using a representative sample of Board decisions over 1957-86, they find that in deciding the minority (20%) of disputes that were particularly important or complex, Board members were influenced by their personal preferences and those of…
Employee Participation Programs, Group-Based Incentives, and Company Performance: A Union-Nonunion Comparison
This analysis examines whether union representation positively or negatively influences the effectiveness of employee participation programs and group-based incentives in improving firm performance. Examined at the firm level, a model of the independent and interaction effects of participation, profit and gain sharing, and union representation is estimated against data on 841 manufacturing firms in Michigan in 1989. The evidence indicates that em…
Product Quality Improvement Through Employee Participation: The Effects of Unionization and Joint Union Management Administration
William N. Cooke, Product Quality Improvement Through Employee Participation: The Effects of Unionization and Joint Union Management Administration, ILR Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Oct., 1992), pp. 119-134
Product Quality Improvement through Employee Participation: The Effects of Unionization and Joint Union-Management Administration
This study investigates the effectiveness of employee participation in achieving product quality improvement in union versus nonunion settings and in programs unilaterally administered by management versus programs with joint union-management administration. An analysis of data from two surveys of manufacturing firm managers suggests that among unionized firms, those with jointly administered programs achieved significantly greater improvements i…
Factors Influencing the Effect of Joint Union-Management Programs on Employee-Supervisor Relations
This study tests a model in which programmatic features of joint union-management programs, the exercise of relative power options by employers, and organizational constraints are hypothesized to influence the intensity of collaborative efforts and, in turn, changes in employee-supervisor relations. An analysis of survey responses provided in 1986 by 92 unionized manufacturing plants having formalized joint programs generally supports the model. …
Structural and Market Predictors of Corporate Labor Relations Strategies
The authors develop a model predicting which of three broad labor-relations strategies-union avoidance, union-management collaboration, or a mixed strategy combining elements of union avoidance and collaboration-a company will adopt. A multinomial logit estimation using data on 58 large unionized manufacturing corporations confirms that market pressures and structural characteristics of the company are important predictors of strategy choice. Spe…
Union Organizing and Public Policy: Failure to Secure First Contracts
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to mitigate and eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, selforganization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the pur…
The Elements of Industrial Relations
The Failure to Negotiate First Contracts: Determinants and Policy Implications
This study examines why unions, after winning certification rights, fail to secure agreements in roughly one of every four first-contract negotiations. Hypotheses are derived from Chamberlain's theory that the relative power of the negotiating parties is a function of the costs of agreeing and disagreeing, costs that are shaped by economic, legal, and organizational factors. The author analyzes data through 1982 on 118 cases in which unions had w…
Determinants of the Outcomes of Union Certification Elections
This study analyzes determinants of union election outcomes at the level of the work unit. Within a theoretical framework of utility maximization, voting behavior is modeled as a function of the social psychology of groups, the economic and sociopolitical environment, NLRB procedures, and the extent of union organization of the industry. Utilizing NLRB certification-election records for 1979, the author finds a negative relationship between unit …
Political Bias in NLRB Unfair Labor Practice Decisions
Previous research has suggested that U.S. presidents appoint members to the National Labor Relations Board who reflect the administration's own union-management predilections. No adequate empirical evidence has yet been reported, however, to show that, once appointed, Board members act in a biased manner. The present study develops and tests a choice model of Board member decisions in selected unfair labor practice cases over the 1954-77 period. …
The Behavior of Unemployment Insurance Recipients under Adverse Market Conditions
This study examines the effect on job search behavior of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) provisions and in labor market conditions. There are good reasons for assuming, on the one hand, that more generous benefits prolong job search and, on the other hand, that an increase in the rate of unemployment causes recipients to reduce reservation wages and thus shorten their job search. Previous studies have not resolved which of these tendencies…
Determinants of the Outcomes of Union Certification Elections
This study analyzes determinants of union election outcomes at the level of the work unit. Within a theoretical framework of utility maximization, voting behavior is modeled as a function of the social psychology of groups, the economic and sociopolitical environment, NLRB procedures, and the extent of union organization of the industry. Utilizing NLRB certification-election records for 1979, the author finds a negative relationship between unit …
The Failure to Negotiate First Contracts: Determinants and Policy Implications
This study examines why unions, after winning certification rights, fail to secure agreements in roughly one of every four first-contract negotiations. Hypotheses are derived from Chamberlain's theory that the relative power of the negotiating parties is a function of the costs of agreeing and disagreeing, costs that are shaped by economic, legal, and organizational factors. The author analyzes data through 1982 on 118 cases in which unions had w…
Employee Participation Programs, Group-Based Incentives, and Company Performance: A Union-Nonunion Comparison
This analysis examines whether union representation positively or negatively influences the effectiveness of employee participation programs and group-based incentives in improving firm performance. Examined at the firm level, a model of the independent and interaction effects of participation, profit and gain sharing, and union representation is estimated against data on 841 manufacturing firms in Michigan in 1989. The evidence indicates that em…
The Influence of Industrial Relations Factors on U.S. Foreign Direct Investment Abroad
Although managers of multinational companies have identified labor practices and regulations, access to skilled labor, and similar factors as important considerations in foreign direct investment decision-making, few studies have empirically examined the influence of industrial relations factors on foreign direct investment. Applying a transaction costs framework to U.S. Department of Commerce data published in 1992, the author examines the influ…
Structural and Market Predictors of Corporate Labor Relations Strategies
The authors develop a model predicting which of three broad labor-relations strategies-union avoidance, union-management collaboration, or a mixed strategy combining elements of union avoidance and collaboration-a company will adopt. A multinomial logit estimation using data on 58 large unionized manufacturing corporations confirms that market pressures and structural characteristics of the company are important predictors of strategy choice. Spe…
Political Bias in NLRB Unfair Labor Practice Decisions
Previous research has suggested that U.S. presidents appoint members to the National Labor Relations Board who reflect the administration's own union-management predilections. No adequate empirical evidence has yet been reported, however, to show that, once appointed, Board members act in a biased manner. The present study develops and tests a choice model of Board member decisions in selected unfair labor practice cases over the 1954-77 period. …
Factors Influencing the Effect of Joint Union-Management Programs on Employee-Supervisor Relations
This study tests a model in which programmatic features of joint union-management programs, the exercise of relative power options by employers, and organizational constraints are hypothesized to influence the intensity of collaborative efforts and, in turn, changes in employee-supervisor relations. An analysis of survey responses provided in 1986 by 92 unionized manufacturing plants having formalized joint programs generally supports the model. …
The Determinants of NLRB Decision-Making Revisited
The authors develop a model of NLRB decision-making that, unlike the models employed in previous studies, distinguishes between decision-making in more important, complex cases and less important, simpler cases. Using a representative sample of Board decisions over 1957-86, they find that in deciding the minority (20%) of disputes that were particularly important or complex, Board members were influenced by their personal preferences and those of…
Product Quality Improvement Through Employee Participation: The Effects of Unionization and Joint Union Management Administration
William N. Cooke, Product Quality Improvement Through Employee Participation: The Effects of Unionization and Joint Union Management Administration, ILR Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Oct., 1992), pp. 119-134
The Behavior of Unemployment Insurance Recipients under Adverse Market Conditions
This study examines the effect on job search behavior of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) provisions and in labor market conditions. There are good reasons for assuming, on the one hand, that more generous benefits prolong job search and, on the other hand, that an increase in the rate of unemployment causes recipients to reduce reservation wages and thus shorten their job search. Previous studies have not resolved which of these tendencies…
Political Bias in NLRB Unfair Labor Practice Decisions
Previous research has suggested that U.S. presidents appoint members to the National Labor Relations Board who reflect the administration's own union-management predilections. No adequate empirical evidence has yet been reported, however, to show that, once appointed, Board members act in a biased manner. The present study develops and tests a choice model of Board member decisions in selected unfair labor practice cases over the 1954-77 period. …
Determinants of the Outcomes of Union Certification Elections
This study analyzes determinants of union election outcomes at the level of the work unit. Within a theoretical framework of utility maximization, voting behavior is modeled as a function of the social psychology of groups, the economic and sociopolitical environment, NLRB procedures, and the extent of union organization of the industry. Utilizing NLRB certification-election records for 1979, the author finds a negative relationship between unit …
The Elements of Industrial Relations
The Failure to Negotiate First Contracts: Determinants and Policy Implications
This study examines why unions, after winning certification rights, fail to secure agreements in roughly one of every four first-contract negotiations. Hypotheses are derived from Chamberlain's theory that the relative power of the negotiating parties is a function of the costs of agreeing and disagreeing, costs that are shaped by economic, legal, and organizational factors. The author analyzes data through 1982 on 118 cases in which unions had w…
Union Organizing and Public Policy: Failure to Secure First Contracts
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to mitigate and eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, selforganization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the pur…
Factors Influencing the Effect of Joint Union-Management Programs on Employee-Supervisor Relations
This study tests a model in which programmatic features of joint union-management programs, the exercise of relative power options by employers, and organizational constraints are hypothesized to influence the intensity of collaborative efforts and, in turn, changes in employee-supervisor relations. An analysis of survey responses provided in 1986 by 92 unionized manufacturing plants having formalized joint programs generally supports the model. …
Structural and Market Predictors of Corporate Labor Relations Strategies
The authors develop a model predicting which of three broad labor-relations strategies-union avoidance, union-management collaboration, or a mixed strategy combining elements of union avoidance and collaboration-a company will adopt. A multinomial logit estimation using data on 58 large unionized manufacturing corporations confirms that market pressures and structural characteristics of the company are important predictors of strategy choice. Spe…
Product Quality Improvement Through Employee Participation: The Effects of Unionization and Joint Union Management Administration
William N. Cooke, Product Quality Improvement Through Employee Participation: The Effects of Unionization and Joint Union Management Administration, ILR Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Oct., 1992), pp. 119-134
Product Quality Improvement through Employee Participation: The Effects of Unionization and Joint Union-Management Administration
This study investigates the effectiveness of employee participation in achieving product quality improvement in union versus nonunion settings and in programs unilaterally administered by management versus programs with joint union-management administration. An analysis of data from two surveys of manufacturing firm managers suggests that among unionized firms, those with jointly administered programs achieved significantly greater improvements i…
Employee Participation Programs, Group-Based Incentives, and Company Performance: A Union-Nonunion Comparison
This analysis examines whether union representation positively or negatively influences the effectiveness of employee participation programs and group-based incentives in improving firm performance. Examined at the firm level, a model of the independent and interaction effects of participation, profit and gain sharing, and union representation is estimated against data on 841 manufacturing firms in Michigan in 1989. The evidence indicates that em…
The Determinants of NLRB Decision-Making Revisited
The authors develop a model of NLRB decision-making that, unlike the models employed in previous studies, distinguishes between decision-making in more important, complex cases and less important, simpler cases. Using a representative sample of Board decisions over 1957-86, they find that in deciding the minority (20%) of disputes that were particularly important or complex, Board members were influenced by their personal preferences and those of…
The Influence of Industrial Relations Factors on U.S. Foreign Direct Investment Abroad
Although managers of multinational companies have identified labor practices and regulations, access to skilled labor, and similar factors as important considerations in foreign direct investment decision-making, few studies have empirically examined the influence of industrial relations factors on foreign direct investment. Applying a transaction costs framework to U.S. Department of Commerce data published in 1992, the author examines the influ…
Economics (11 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Labour economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (5 works) · Industrial relations (4 works) · Industrial Relations (4 works) · Marketing (4 works) · Marketing (4 works)