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- Title
The Tension Between Worker Safety and Organization Survival.
- Authors
Pagell, Mark; Parkinson, Mary; Veltri, Anthony; Gray, John; Wiengarten, Frank; Louis, Michalis; Fynes, Brian
- 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 more than 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. This paper was accepted by Charles Corbett, operations management.
- Subjects
OREGON; INDUSTRIAL safety; OPERATIONS management; ORGANIZATIONAL performance; ORGANIZATION; FORECASTING
- Publication
Management Science, 2020, Vol 66, Issue 10, p4863
- ISSN
0025-1909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/mnsc.2020.3589