The tension between worker safety and organization survival
Journal article
Authors | Pagell, Mark, Parkinson, Mary, Veltri, Anthony, Gray, John, Louis, Michail, Wiengarten, Frank and Fynes, Brian |
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Abstract | This research addresses the fundamental question of whether providing a safe workplace improves or hinders organizational survival, because there are conflicting predictions on the relationship between worker safety and organizational performance. The results, based on a unique longitudinal database covering over 100,000 organizations across 25 years in the U.S. state of Oregon, indicate that in general organizations that provide a safe workplace have significantly lower odds and length of survival. Additionally, the organizations that would in general have better survival odds, benefit most from not providing a safe workplace. This suggests that relying on the market does not engender workplace safety. |
Keywords | safety, survival; worker |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Management Science |
Publisher | INFORMS |
ISSN | 0025-1909 |
1526-5501 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3589 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624796 |
hdl:10545/624796 | |
Publication dates | 05 May 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 07 May 2020, 14:36 |
Accepted | 20 Dec 2019 |
Contributors | University College Dublin, Oregon State University, The Ohio State University, Universitat Ramon Llull, St Cugat, Spain and University of Derby |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/955x9/the-tension-between-worker-safety-and-organization-survival
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