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Managerial Intentions and Wage Determination in the Canadian Petroleum Industry
Author(s) -
Taras Daphne Gottlieb
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/0019-8676.481997011
Subject(s) - wage , affect (linguistics) , petroleum industry , economics , petroleum , labour economics , psychology , engineering , paleontology , environmental engineering , communication , biology
Scant attention has been given to the impact of managerial objectives on wage policies. This study demonstrates that in the Canadian petroleum industry, which has minimal wage dispersion, managerial objectives—in particular, a tendency toward imitative behavior and a strategy of union avoidance—do affect wage determination.