Organizational responses to legal liability: employee exposure to hazardous materials, vertical integration, and small firm production

Article Abstract:

Organizations face an increasingly litigious environment. We examined responses to one class of legal threats: liability stemming from employees' on-the-job exposure to hazardous materials. We empirically investigated the impact of such exposure on the vertical integration of firms and on the percentage change in the number of small firms in an industry. In the face of legal exposure, firms are more likely to adopt a nonvertically integrated production system, and small firm production in an industry increases. These actions reduce the liability of large firms. Incentives for small firms to produce in this context are also discussed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Laws, regulations and rules, Occupational health and safety, Occupational safety and health, Employer liability, Toxic torts

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Voice mail versus conventional channels: a cost minimization analysis of individual's preferences

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Professional, technical, and administrative workers read a vignette describing a communication need and expressed a preference for the channel they would use to initiate a message. We manipulated such variables as message complexity and need for documentation. Results support eight of ten hypotheses derived from a perspective of cost minimization with exogenous variables accounting for about 21 percent of the variance. Cost minimization can apparently predict individual channel selections and provide a partial basis for managerial decisions about adopting voice mail. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Voice mail

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