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Affirmative Action in a Changing Legal and Economic Environment
Author(s) -
BADGETT M. V. LEE
Publication year - 1995
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.1995.tb00385.x
Subject(s) - affirmative action , action (physics) , product market , compliance (psychology) , product (mathematics) , labour economics , legal action , production (economics) , business , equal employment opportunity , economics , market economy , political science , law , microeconomics , finance , psychology , social psychology , physics , geometry , mathematics , commission , quantum mechanics , incentive
This study examines the effects of changing legal and economic pressure on a large manufacturing firm in the 1980s and shows that the firm was able to pursue two potentially contradictory goals: equal employment opportunity compliance and product market competitiveness. The firm's institutionalized affirmative action commitment and diverse local labor market shaped innovations in production and employment practices in a way that encouraged meeting both goals rather than trading off one for the other.