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The Impact of Competition and Trade Unions on Workplace Reform and Organisational and Technological Change

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  • Natalia Nunes
  • Geoffrey Crockett
  • Peter Dawkins

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This article addresses two research questions, firstly to test the hypothesis that organisational and technological changes are more likely to occur in the traded goods sector, in the private sector relative to the public sector and in more competitive product markets. Secondly, to examine whether trade unions have a positive or negative effect on the implementation of different types of workplace reforms, and organisational and technological changes. The analysis supports the hypothesis that workplaces in the traded goods sector are more likely to implement organisational and technological changes. It also indicates that workplaces in the private sector are more likely to implement certain types of reforms, whereas workplaces in the public sector are more likely to implement others. However, this study does not provide conclusive evidence that competitive pressure in product markets increases the probability that a firm will implement each workplace reform mentioned in this study. The evidence on unions provides tentative support to the view that more unionised workplaces are less likely to implement the reforms in question.

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  • Natalia Nunes & Geoffrey Crockett & Peter Dawkins, 1993. "The Impact of Competition and Trade Unions on Workplace Reform and Organisational and Technological Change," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 26(2), pages 71-88, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecr:v:26:y:1993:i:2:p:71-88
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.1993.tb00785.x
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    1. Metcalf, D., 1990. "Industrial Relations And The "Productivity Miracle" In British Manufacturing Industry In The 1980s," CEPR Discussion Papers 231, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, Australian National University.
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    1. Patrick Laplagne & Leonie Bensted, 2002. "The role of training and innovation in workplace performance," Labor and Demography 0207005, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Hodgkinson, A., 1999. "Employee Involvment and Participation in the Organisational Change Decision: Illawarra and Australian Patterns," Economics Working Papers wp99-7, School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
    3. Mark Rogers, 2000. "Understanding Innovative Firms: An Empirical Analysis of the GAPS," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2000n08, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.

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