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Information Sharing of Sensitive Business Data with Employees
Author(s) -
KLEINER MORRIS M.,
BOUILLON MARVIN L.
Publication year - 1991
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/j.1468-232x.1991.tb00800.x
Subject(s) - business , variety (cybernetics) , profitability index , information sharing , compensation (psychology) , business information , industrial organization , marketing , finance , psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , psychoanalysis , political science , law
This study reexamines the determinants and consequences of publicly traded manufacturing firms sharing sensitive business data with their producation employees. Using more detailed information sharing variables, we find that providing a variety of types of information is associated with higher compensation, that firms are less likely to share relatively more senistive information with employees, and that sharing future market strategies is negatively related to various measures of firm profitability. The implications for firm and public policies are also discussed.