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Updating the Determinants of Firm Performance: Estimation using the 1998 UK Workplace Employee Relations Survey
Author(s) -
Addison John T.,
Belfield Clive R.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8543.00204
Subject(s) - industrial relations , representation (politics) , affect (linguistics) , set (abstract data type) , replicate , estimation , test (biology) , survey data collection , business , economics , psychology , political science , management , statistics , computer science , mathematics , law , paleontology , communication , politics , biology , programming language
We examine the determinants of establishment performance in the UK, using cross‐sectional data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to replicate research by Fernie and Metcalf (1995) who used data from the 1990 Workplace Employee Relations Survey; specifically, we test whether employee representation, contingent pay and efforts to boost employee participation affect a set of economic and industrial relations outcome indicators in the manner they suggest. We also re‐estimate the influential WERS90‐based study of Machin and Stewart (1996) on the links between union status and financial performance. In both cases we report very different results.