Deregulation, Business Strategy, and Wages in the Airline Industry

NANCY BROWN JOHNSON; RAKESH B. SAMBHARYA; PHILIP BOBKO

doi:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1989.tb00735.x

Deregulation, Business Strategy, and Wages in the Airline Industry

NANCY BROWN JOHNSON, RAKESH B. SAMBHARYA, PHILIP BOBKO

Management

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

14 Scopus citations

Abstract

This study assesses empirically the relationship between business strategy and wages within the context of a significant environmental change—deregulation of the airline industry. Regression results provide limited support for the hypotheses that firms' business strategies would lead to systematic differences in average earnings levels of airline carriers, depending on whether or not the industry was regulated, and that these strategies would operate over and above firms' ability to pay higher wages. It appears that business strategies may be linked to their human resource outcomes even in a heavily unionized environment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	419-430
Number of pages	12
Journal	Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
Volume	28
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1989.tb00735.x
State	Published - Sep 1989

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Industrial relations
Strategy and Management
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Management of Technology and Innovation

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

10.1111/j.1468-232X.1989.tb00735.x

Cite this

@article{60d8159dc20444d3a7edf6b7d9c41e0e,

title = "Deregulation, Business Strategy, and Wages in the Airline Industry",

abstract = "This study assesses empirically the relationship between business strategy and wages within the context of a significant environmental change—deregulation of the airline industry. Regression results provide limited support for the hypotheses that firms' business strategies would lead to systematic differences in average earnings levels of airline carriers, depending on whether or not the industry was regulated, and that these strategies would operate over and above firms' ability to pay higher wages. It appears that business strategies may be linked to their human resource outcomes even in a heavily unionized environment.",

author = "JOHNSON, {NANCY BROWN} and SAMBHARYA, {RAKESH B.} and PHILIP BOBKO",

year = "1989",

month = sep,

doi = "10.1111/j.1468-232X.1989.tb00735.x",

language = "English",

volume = "28",

pages = "419--430",

number = "3",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Deregulation, Business Strategy, and Wages in the Airline Industry

AU - JOHNSON, NANCY BROWN

AU - SAMBHARYA, RAKESH B.

AU - BOBKO, PHILIP

PY - 1989/9

Y1 - 1989/9

N2 - This study assesses empirically the relationship between business strategy and wages within the context of a significant environmental change—deregulation of the airline industry. Regression results provide limited support for the hypotheses that firms' business strategies would lead to systematic differences in average earnings levels of airline carriers, depending on whether or not the industry was regulated, and that these strategies would operate over and above firms' ability to pay higher wages. It appears that business strategies may be linked to their human resource outcomes even in a heavily unionized environment.

AB - This study assesses empirically the relationship between business strategy and wages within the context of a significant environmental change—deregulation of the airline industry. Regression results provide limited support for the hypotheses that firms' business strategies would lead to systematic differences in average earnings levels of airline carriers, depending on whether or not the industry was regulated, and that these strategies would operate over and above firms' ability to pay higher wages. It appears that business strategies may be linked to their human resource outcomes even in a heavily unionized environment.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84987313827&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84987313827&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-232X.1989.tb00735.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1468-232X.1989.tb00735.x

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84987313827

SN - 0019-8676

VL - 28

SP - 419

EP - 430

JO - Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society

JF - Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society

IS - 3

ER -

Deregulation, Business Strategy, and Wages in the Airline Industry

Abstract

ASJC Scopus subject areas

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this