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Sectoral Contexts (sectoral + context)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	100%

Selected Abstracts

Assessing the long-run economic impact of labour law systems: a theoretical reappraisal and analysis of new time series data

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 6 2008
Simon Deakin
ABSTRACT Standard economic theory sees labour law as an exogenous interference with market relations and predicts mostly negative impacts on employment and productivity. We argue for a more nuanced theoretical position: labour law is, at least in part, endogenous, with both the production and the application of labour law norms influenced by national and sectoral contexts, and by complementarities between the institutions of the labour market and those of corporate governance and financial markets. Legal origin may also operate as a force shaping the content of the law and its economic impact. Time-series analysis using a new data set on legal change from the 1970s to the mid-2000s shows evidence of positive correlations between regulation and growth in employment and productivity, at least for France and Germany. No relationship, either positive or negative, is found for the UK and, although the United States shows a weak negative relationship between regulation and employment growth, this is offset by productivity gains. [source]

Charity shops in sectoral contexts: the view from the boardroom

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NONPROFIT & VOLUNTARY SECTOR MARKETING, Issue 2 2000
Richard Goodall
Charity shops seem inherently contradictory in many ways. This paper unravels some of the contradictions by analysing charity shops in their ,sectoral contexts'. First it puts forward different meanings of ,sector' and introduces notions of ,sector values'. Then it presents results from empirical research into UK charity shop organisations, to show how senior managers of charity shop chains deal with ,sectoral contradictions'. Finally, it asks how the sectoral contexts influence the management philosophies and marketing strategies (in the broadest sense) of these senior managers. Copyright © 2000 Henry Stewart Publications [source]