Our paper provides an explanation why cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) provisions and their characteristics vary widely across U.S. industries. We develop models of optimal risk sharing between a firm and union to investigate the determinants of a number of contract characteristics. These include the presence and degree of wage indexing, the magnitude of deferred noncontingent wage increases, c...

In this chapter, I explore the possible benefits of combining an analysis psychodynamism individuation with New Materialism. contend that concepts such as dynamic objectivity and autonomy can help us to understand specificity human agential cuts proposed by This, in turn, opens up answers ethical difficulties left entangled Materialism’s posthumanist approach ethico-onto-epistem-ology.

Three strategies for scientific research in management are examined: advocacy, induction, and multiple hypotheses. Advocacy of a single dominant hypothesis is efficient, but biased. Induction is not biased, but it is inefficient. The multiple hypotheses strategy seems to be both efficient and unbiased. Despite its apparent lack of objectivity, most management scientists use advocacy. For exampl...