We explore the role of nurses and their unions in workplace innovation through case study
research on the introduction of Lean production (LP). We find that nurses' unions were not …

Several studies have acknowledged that lean production is implemented in diverse ways
across workplaces, thereby generating different outcomes for workers. However …

Over the past ten years the healthcare industry has become a main target of union
organizing efforts. While registered nurses represent the largest group of healthcare …

The growing literature on high performance workplace systems suggests that in a unionised
environment such systems can be advantageous for workers. This paper reports on a study …

This article draws together two aspects of union renewal strategy: merger and increasing
women's involvement and activism. The article utilises a case study of the National Union of …

This article examines the application of elements of lean production work organisation to
service work. Lean production describes the Japanese car assembly manufacturing system …

Purpose–This article aims to demonstrate that trade unions possess unique knowledge of
how organisations really work and that they are repositories of experience embracing many …

Existing research has found heterogeneity in the implementation of Lean and its outcomes
in terms of employee involvement across countries. This article explores the potential role of …

In May 1993, in a small former shipyard town on the west coast of Sweden, Volvo closed its
Uddevalla plant. The plant had become famous in its four years of existence because it …