Internal cooperation and competitive success: the case of the US steel minimill sector
研究了美国钢铁小钢厂自1960年代以来如何通过灵活参与式的内部劳动市场和工业关系系统减少内部冲突，从而在市场竞争中成功取代传统大型钢铁企业。
Since the 1960s, American steel minimills have captured markets once dominated by the American integrated steel producers. This article argues that the minimills' competitive success is due in part to their ability to cultivate and sustain flexible and participative internal labor market and industrial relations systems. They have accomplished this by reducing internal sources of conflict among plant-level workers and managers through the absence, reduction, or elimination of factors contributing to their vulnerability to higher-level decisions. The sector's market success has permitted the institutionalization of chosen strategies and structures, and reinforced the virtues circle of convergent interests, internal accord, organizational responsiveness, and product market success. (c) 1995 Academic Press, Ltd. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press.