Publications and Working Papers
“Social Capital Activation and Job Searching: Embedding the Use of Weak Ties in the American Institutional Context.” Work and Occupations. Forthcoming (2014)
Beyond the Digital Divide: Social Networking Technologies, Careers, and New Inequalities. Manuscript in progress. (2013)
“Job Searching and Preparation.” Sociology of Work Encyclopedia. Edited by Vicki Smith and Geoffrey Golson. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, California. (2013)
Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences. University of Chicago Press. Winner: 2014 Viviana Zelizer Award: best book, Economic Sociology Section, ASA. Winner: 2014 Max Weber Award: best book, Organizations, Occupation, Work (OOW) Section, ASA. Honorable Mention: 2014 Mary Douglas Prize, Best Book, Culture Section, ASA (2013)
“Reducing Physical Hazards: Encouraging Inherently Safer Production.” Ashford, Nicholas A. In Handbook of Green Chemistry Green Processes Volume 9: Designing Safer Chemicals, edited by Anastas, Paul T., Robert Boethling, and Adelina Votchkova: 485-500. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH, 2013. (2013)
“Social Networks and Employment: Mechanisms (Part 1).” Castilla, Emilio J., George J. Lan, and Ben A. Rissing. Sociology Compass 7(12): 999-1012. (2013)
“Why Unemployed Americans Blame Themselves While Israelis Blame the System.” Social Forces. 91(4): 1429-1450. Selected for publication in the “Best Paper Proceedings” of the 2011 Academy of Management. (2013)
Companies Should Take the Lead In Creating Collaborative Programs To Train Workers (2012)
“Gender, Race, and the New (Merit-based) Employment Relationship.” Castilla, Emilio J. Industrial Relations 51 (2): 1-35. (2012)
"Job Quality In America: The Myths That Block Action” Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? (2012)
“Off to a ‘Green’ Start? How State Agents Shape the Employment Outcomes of Foreign Nationals by Citizenship.” Rissing, Ben A. and Emilio J. Castilla. Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings. (2012)
“Bringing Managers Back In: Managerial Influences on Workplace Inequality.” Castilla, Emilio J. American Sociological Review 76 (5): 667-694. (2011)
“Building a Sustainable Employment System in the U.S.: Lessons from the Financial Crisis,” Kochan, Thomas, Ryan Hammond, Korean Labor Institute Journal, 2011.
“Collective Bargaining for the 21st Century,” Kochan, Thomas, Susan Hayter and Tayo Fashoyin, Journal of Industrial Relations, 53(2) 225-47, 2011.
"Community Colleges: Promise, Performance, and Policy” Reinventing Higher Education The Promise of Innovation (2011)
“Hawaii Well Poised to Offer an Alternative to Wisconsin Public Sector Unions,” Honolulu Star Advertiser, May 30, 2011
Institutional Labor Economics, The New Personnel Economics, and Internal Labor Markets: A Reconsideration (2011)
“Legislators Please Make us Proud," Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, February 21, 2011.
“Non-political Solution: Business, Labor Can Solve the Crisis," Herald Times Reporter, March 6, 2011.
“Protective Bargaining: How to Prevent Labor Wars,” Boston Review on-Line, February 23, 2011.
"Technology, Globalization and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State,"N. A. Ashford and R. P. Hall, Yale University Press, 2011.
“The Gendering Action of Class Action: The Effects of a Sex Discrimination Lawsuit on Worker-Management Relations at Wal-Mart.” (2011)
“Use Evidence Based Approach to Public Sector Challenges,” Madison Capital Times, February 6, 2011.
“Work and Employment Policy and Practice: Lessons from a Failed State,” in Marian Baird, Keith Hancock, Joe Isaac, (eds.) Work and Employment Relations in an Era of Change, Sydney: The Federation Press, 178-195, 2011.
Blame Games: Responses to Unemployment in Israel and the United States. Book manuscript under preparation. (2010)
Chemistry or Specs: Job Search Games and Subjective Responses to Unemployment (2010)
“Mérito y Discriminación dentro de las Organizaciones: Diferencias enla Evaluación y Retribución de Empleados/as según Género y Origen Étnico.” Castilla, Emilio J. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 129: 61-105. Winner of the 2010 Best ArticlePublished in Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas Award (Centro deInvestigaciones Sociológicas, Madrid, Spain).
“The Long Haul Effects of Interest Arbitration: The Case of New York State’s Taylor Law.” Kochan, Thomas, David Lipsky, Mary Newman, and Alan Benson, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63(4): 565-84.
"The Paradox of Meritocracy in Organizations." Castilla, Emilio J. and Steve Benard. Administrative Science Quarterly 55 (4): 543-576. [Winner of the 2010 Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award, presented by the OB Division of the Academy of Management].
The Role of Skill Development and Firm Level Policies In Improving Outcomes For Low Wage Workers (2010)
“Why Americans Blame Themselves and Israelis Blame the System: Comparing Subjective Responses to Unemployment.” Paper submitted for presentation 2010 American Sociological Association conference.
“Contrasting Management and Employment Relations Strategies in European Airlines,” Journal ofIndustrial Relations, 51(5): 635-652, 2009.
“Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining,” Sage Handbook on Human Resource Management, Adrian Wilkinson, Nicolas Bacon, Tom Redman, and Scott Snell (eds.), 2009 (with Greg Bamber).
“Special Research Forum—Public Policy and Management Research: Finding the Common Ground,” Kochan, Thomas, Larry Hunter, Mauro Guillen, Siobhan O’Mahoney, Academy of Management Journal, December 2009.
“The Institutional Production of National Science in the 20th Century.” Castilla, Emilio J. International Sociology 24 (6): 833-869. (2009)
“Will Workers Benefit from this Economic Recovery?” Review Essay of The State of Working America: 2008-09 by Larry Mishel, Jared Bernstein and Heidi Shierholtz. In Work and Occupations. December 2009.
"Will Workers Share in the Economic Recovery,” A Review Essay, Work and Occupations, December2009. (2009)
"¿Incentivos Salariales por Rendimiento? Parcialidad en los Procesos de Evaluación y Retribución según Sexo y Raza.” Castilla, Emilio J., in Mujeres, Trabajos y Empleos en Tiempos de Globalización, edited by Pilar Rodríguez. Barcelona: Icaria Libros, 2008: 165-208.
“Balancing Acts: Dynamics of a Union Management Coalition in a Labor Management Partnership,” Kochan, Thomas, Adrienne Eaton, Saul Rubinstein, Industrial Relations, January 2008.
“Bargaining Theory Meets Interest Based Negotiations: A Case Study,” Kochan, Thomas, Robert McKersie,Theresa Sharpe, Adrienne Eaton, George Strauss, Marty Morgenstern, Industrial Relations, January 2008.
“Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers.” Castilla, Emilio J. American Journal of Sociology 113 (6): 1479-1526. Finalist Article for the 2009 W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship (American Sociological Association: Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section). (2008)
“Introduction to Symposium on the Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership” Kochan, Thomas, Industrial Relations, January 2008:
“The Potential and Precariousness of Partnership: The Case of the Kaiser Permanente LaborManagement Partnership,” Kochan, Thomas, Paul Adler, Adrienne Eaton, Paul Gerhart, Robert McKersie and Phyllis Segal, Industrial Relations, January 2008.
"Up in the Air: How Airlines can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees." Kochan, Thomas, Greg Bamber,Jody Hoffer Gittell and Andrew von Nordenflycht, Cornell University Press, 2008.
“Beyond Corporate Codes of Conduct: Work Organization and Labor Standards at Nike’s Suppliers” Richard Locke, Kochan, Thomas, Fei Qin, Monica Romis, International Labour Review, 146(1-2): 21-40, 2007.
Book Review: “The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences.” Sociological Inquiry. 77(3): 514-517. 2007.
“Collective Bargaining in the Twenty-First Century: A Negotiation Institution at Risk," Kochan, Thomas, Joel Cutcher Gershenfeld, Betty Barrett, John-Paul Ferguson, Negotiation Journal, July, 2007, 249-265
“Constructing Unemployed Job Seekers as Professional Workers: The Depoliticizing Work-Game of Job Searching.” Qualitative Sociology. 30(4): 403-416. (2007)
“Employer-Employee New Social Contracts: Fashioning a New Compact,” Academy of ManagementPerspectives, 21(2): 13-16, May, 2007.
Symposium on Restoring the American Dream. “Response” Labor History, 48(3): 365-70 August 2007.
“Updating American Labor Law: Taking Advantage of a Window of Opportunity,” Kochan, Thomas, Comparative LaborLaw and Policy Journal, 28(2): 101-24, Winter, 2007.
"Employment and Training Policies: New Directions for Less Skilled Adults” Workforce Policies for a Changing Economy (2006)
“Restoring Voice at Work and in Society,” in Edward E. Lawler and James O’Toole (eds.) America atWork: Choices and Challenges, New Your: Palgrave, 37-52, 2006.
"The Changing Employment Circumstances of Managers” America at Work: Choices and Challenges (2006)
“Airborne distress: How can labor recover in the airline industry?" Kochan, Thomas, Andrew vonNordenflycht, Robert McKersie, Jody Hoffer Gittell, New Labor Forum, 14(2): 39-50, Summer 2005.
“Berkeley’s Betrayal: Wages and Working Conditions at Cal,” co-authored with Gretchen Purser and Amy Schalet. Berkeley: University Labor Research Project. 2004. Excerpted in Introduction to Sociology, edited by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, and Richard Appelbaum. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. (2005)
"Book Review: The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States by Sanford M. Jacoby," published in Administrative Science Quarterly 50 (1): 143-148 (2005)
“Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers.” Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings. [Finalist Paper for the 2005 Harlow Award (Academy of Management: Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division)].
"Making Bad Jobs Good: Strategies for the Service Section” Job Quality and Employer Behavior (2005)
Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes. South-Western College Publishing, 1996, 1999 (2nd Ed.), 2005 (3rd Ed.)
"Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families’ Agenda for America," Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,September 2005.
“Social Legitimacy of the Human Resource Management Profession,” Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management. John Purcell, Peter Boxall, and Patrick Wright (ed), 2005.
“Social Networks and Employee Performance in a Call Center.” Castilla, Emilio J. American Journal of Sociology 110 (5): 1243-1283. (2005)
“A Silver Anniversary not worth Celebrating: The Impasse over American Labor and EmploymentPolicies,” Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 25, Fall, 2004.
“Collective Actors and Industrial Relations: Which Future?" Kochan, Thomas, The German Journal of Industrial Relations, 11, 2004.
“Education, Families, and Workplace Policies: Their Role in a Knowledge-Based Economy,” Kochan, Thomas, Challenge, 47(6): 69-81, Nov/Dec, 2004.
“Engineering Overwork: Bell-Curve Management at a High-Tech Firm,” in Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life, edited by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L. Kalleberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (2004)
“Mutual Gains or Zero Sum: Labor Relations and Firm Performance in the Airline Industry,” Kochan, Thomas, Jody Hoffer Gittell and Andrew von Nordenflycht, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, January, 2004.
“Options for Rebuilding Airline Labor Relations,” Kochan, Thomas, Perspectives on Work, Winter 2004.
"Organizing Health Care: A Comparative Analysis of National Institutions and Inequality over Time.” Castilla, Emilio J. International Sociology 19 (4): 403-435. (2004)
“Out of the Ashes: Building an Effective Labor Relations System in Airlines,” Kochan, Thomas, Robert McKersie, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Andrew von Nordenflycht, Perspectives on Work, Winter, 2004.
"Ports and Ladders: The Nature and Relevance of Internal Labor Markets in a Changing World” Oxford Handbook on Work and Organization (2004)
“Ports and Ladders: The Nature and Relevance of Internal Labor Markets in a Changing World" Oxford Handbook on Work and Organization (2004)
“Restoring Trust in the Human Resource Management Profession,” Kochan, Thomas, Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004.
“Taking Stock: Collective Bargaining at the Turn of the Century,” Kochan, Thomas, Cutcher Gershenfeld, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 58(1): 3-26, October, 2004.
"The Economic Context for Workforce Intermediaries” Workforce Intermediaries in the Twenty-first Century (2004)
"The Power of Unofficial Expectations: Shareholder Value Management Strategies and Long Work Hours in California." Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series. (2004)
“Why Work Long Hours?” Co-authored with Neil Fligstein. Initial draft entitled “The Power of Unofficial Expectations: Shareholder Value Management Strategies and Long Work Hours in California” in Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series. (2004)
“Contract Negotiations in the Airline Industry,” Kochan, Thomas, Andrew von Nordenflycht, Monthly Labor Review, August, 2003
Gathering Power: The Future of Progressive Politics In America (Beacon Press), 2003
“Government Policies for a Knowledge Based Economy” Kochan, Thomas, Economic and Social Research Council, 2003.
Management: Inventing and Delivering It’s Future, edited with Richard L. Schmalensee, Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 2003.
“Needed: American Leadership for a Global Work and Employment Policy,” Kochan, Thomas, Journal of IndustrialRelations, Winter, 2003.
“Networks of Venture Capital Firms in Silicon Valley.” Castilla, Emilio J. International Journal of Technology Management 25 (1/2): 113-135. (2003)
"Organizing the U.S. Labor Market: National Problems, Community Strategies” Governing Work and Welfare in the New Economy (2003)
“Restoring Trust in American Corporations: Root Causes,” Journal of Management and Governance,Summer, 2003.
“The Effects of Diversity on Business Performance: Report of the Diversity Research Network.” Thomas Kochan, Katerina Bezrukova, Robin Ely, Susan Jackson, Aparna Joshi, Karen Jehn, Jonathan Leonard, David Levine, David Thomas, Human Resource Management Journal, 42(1): 3–21, Spring 2003.
“The Future of British Unions: A Perspective from the U.S.” in Howard Gospel and Stephen Wood (eds)The Future of British Unions. London: Routledge 2003.
“Addressing the Crisis in Confidence in Corporations: Root Causes, Victims, and Strategies for Reform,” Kochan, Thomas, Academy of Management Executive, 16: 139-41, 2002.
“Celebrating Work: A Job Unfinished.” Arthur G. Bedieian (ed) Managerial Laureates: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays, 6: Greenwich CT: JAI Press, 2002.
“Social Networks and Employee Performance”Submitted to the Department of Sociology, Stanford University, July 2002
“The Impact of Visible Diversity on Organizational Effectiveness: Disclosing the Contents in Pandora’sBlack Box,” Kochan, Thomas, Orlando C. Richard, Amy McMillan-Capehart, Journal of Business andManagement, 8(3): 265-291, Summer 2002.
“Can the U.S. Industrial Relations System be Transformed? The Role of Ideas, Reform Efforts and Social Crisis.” In Ivar Berg and Arne L. Kalleberg (eds.) Sourcebook on Labor Markets, New York:Plenum Publishers, 83-100, 2001.
"Employers in the Low Wage/Low Skill Labor Market” Low Wage Workers In The New Economy (2001)
“How Much is That Network Worth? Social Capital in Employee Referral Networks.” Fernandez, Roberto M. and Emilio J. Castilla in Social Capital: Theory and Research, edited by Karen Cook, Nan Lin, and Ronald S. Burt. Chicago: Aldine-deGruyter, 2001: 85-104.
“In Whose Interest? A First Look at National Survey Data on Interest-Based Bargaining in LaborRelations”, Kochan, Thomas, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and John Calhoun Wells. Industrial Relations, 40: 1-21, January 2001.
"Integrating Work and Family Life: A Holistic Approach," (with Lotte Bailyn and Robert Drago). MIT SloanSchool of Management, 2001.
"Learning from Saturn: Possibilities for Corporate Governance and Employee Relations." Ithaca, NY:Cornell University Press, 2001.
"Working in America: Labor Market Institutions for the New Century." With Paul Osterman, Richard Locke and Michael Piore, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
"Facilitating Conflict Resolution in Union-Management Relations: A Guide for Neutrals," with Richard Chaykowski, Joel-Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Christina Sickles Merchant, Ithaca: Cornell /Perc Institute onConflict Resolution, 2000.
“Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Alternative Dispute Resolution Program Evaluation," Kochan, Thomas, Brenda Lautsch, Corinne Bendersky, Harvard Negotiations Law Review, 5: 233-78. Spring, 2000.
“On the Paradigm Guiding Industrial Relations Theory and Research,” Kochan, Thomas, Industrial and Labor RelationsReview, 53: 704-11, July, 2000.
“Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: A Call to Action” Proceedings of the Industrial RelationsResearch Association 52nd Annual Meetings, 1-25, 2000.
"Social Capital at Work: Networks and Employment at a Phone Center." Fernández, Roberto M., Emilio J. Castilla and Paul Moore. American Journal of Sociology 105 (5): 1288-1356. [Winner of the 2001 W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship presented by the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association]. Reprinted in Social Capital in Business, edited by Kenneth W. Koput and Joseph P.Boschak. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2011). (2000)
“Social Networks in Silicon Valley.” Castilla, Emilio J., Hokyu Hwang, Mark Granovetter and Ellen Granovetter. in The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by Chong-Moon Lee, William F. Miller, Henry Rowen, and Marguerite Hancock. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000: 218-247. (2000)
"The New Relationship: Human Capital in the American Corporation," edited with Margaret M. Blair,Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2000.
“Toward a Stakeholder Theory of the Firm: The Saturn Partnership,” Kochan, Thomas, Saul Rubinstein, OrganizationScience, 11: 367-86, July-August, 2000.
Work Organization in an Era of Restructuring: Trends in Diffusion and Impacts on Employee Welfare (2000)
“How to Update Employment and Labor Policies for the 21st Century," Kochan, Thomas, Perspectives on Work, 3(2): 12-17, 1999.
“Reconstructing America’s Social Contract in Employment: The Role of Policy, Institutions, andPractices,” Kochan, Thomas, Chicago-Kent Law Review, 75(1): 137-52, 1999.
Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What To Do About It (Princeton Univerisity Press), 1999
“Sistemas Sanitarios Públicos: Análisis Comparativo de Organizaciones Sanitarias y Desigualdades Sociales.” Castilla, Emilio J. Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas 13-14: 29-49. (1999)
"The Changing Nature of Work: Implications for Occupational Analysis, Committee on Techniques for theEnhancement of Human Performance: Occupational Analysis," Washington: National Academy Press, 1999.
“Beyond Myopia: Human Resources and the Changing Social Contract,” in Ferris, (ed.), Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Greenwich: JAI Press, 199-212, 1998.
"Changing the Constraints: A Successful Employment and Training Strategy” Jobs and Economic Development (1998)
Changing Work Organization in America: What Has Happened and Who Has Benefited? (1998)
“Crossroads in Employment Relations: Approaching a Mutual Gains Paradigm,” in James A. Auerbach,(ed.), Through a Glass Darkly: Building the New Workplace for the 21st Century, Washington, DC: National Policy Association, 1998.
“How Do Labor and Management View Collective Bargaining?” Kochan, Thomas, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, John Calhoun Wells, Monthly Labor Review, 121(10): 23-31, October 1998.
“Human Capital and the American Corporation,” Kochan, Thomas, Perspectives on Work, 2(1): 7-12, 1998.
“Labor Policy for the Twenty-First Century,” Kochan, Thomas, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and EmploymentLaw, 1(1): 117-131, 1998.
“What Is Distinctive about Industrial Relations Research?” Keith Whitfield and George Strauss, (eds.), Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 31-45, 1998.
"After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry," T. Kochan, Russell D. Lansbury and John Paul MacDuffie, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
“Análisis Comparativo de los Sistemas de Nacionales de Desigualdad Social.” Castilla, Emilio J., in Metodología del Análisis Comparativo, Jordi E. Caïs, ed. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 1997: 121-157.
“Changing Employment Relations and Governance in the International Auto Industry,” Kochan, Thomas, Russell D.Lansbury, The Journal of Management and Governance, (1)1: 85-102, 1997.
“Dispute Resolution and Team-Based Work Systems,” with Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, in Sandra E.Gleason, (ed.), Workplace Dispute Resolution – Directions for the 21st Century, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1997.
“Rebalancing the Role of Human Resources,” Kochan, Thomas, Human Resource Management Journal, 36(1): 121-127, 1997.
“A Grass-Roots Experiment to Resolve Workplace Problems,” Kochan, Thomas, Susan Eaton, Negotiation Journal, 12(2): 175-179, 1996.
Broken Ladders: Managerial Careers in the New Economy. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
"Launching a Renaissance in International Industrial Relations Research," Kochan, Thomas, Relations Industrielles, 51: 247-263, 1996.
"Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes," with Deborah Ancona, Maureen Scully,John Van Maanen, and D. Eleanor Westney, Cincinnati: South-Western College Publishing, 1996.Second edition, 1999; Third edition, 2004.
“New Ideas on Resolving Workplace Disputes: Examples from the U.S. and Abroad,” Kochan, Thomas, Susan Eaton, Negotiation Journal, 12(2): 113-117, 1996.
"The American Corporation as an Employer: Past, Present, and Future," in Carl Kaysen, (ed.), The Corporation in Modern Society: A Second Look, New York: Oxford University Press, 242-268, 1996.
“What Works at Work: Overview and Assessment,” Kochan, Thomas, Casey Ichniowski, David Levine, Craig Olson, George Strauss, Industrial Relations, 35: 299-333, 1996.
"Apprenticeship Programs for the American Youth Labor Market” Contract With America's Youth: Towards a National Youth Development Agenda (1995)
"Do U.S. Firms Invest Less in Human Resources?: Training in the World Auto Industry," Kochan, Thomas, John PaulMacDuffie, Industrial Relations, 34: 147-168, 1995.
"Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy," edited with Richard Locke and Michael Piore,Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1995.
"Human Resource Management in Asian Economies," edited with Anil Verma and Russell Lansbury,London: Routledge, 1995.
"Problems and Policies for the Youth Labor Market” The Changing Nature of Work (1995)
"Reconceptualizing Comparative Industrial Relations: Lessons from International Research," Kochan, Thomas, Richard Locke, Michael Piore, International Labour Review, 134(2): 139-161, 1995.
"The Limits of Diffusion: Recent Developments in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Practices," with Marc Weinstein, in Richard Locke, Thomas Kochan, and Michael Piore, (eds.), EmploymentRelations in a Changing World Economy, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1995.
"The Transformation of Work in the United States: What The Evidence Shows” Managing Human Resources in the 1990s and Beyond (1995)
"Total Quality Management and Human Resource Systems: An International Comparison," Kochan, Thomas, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Brenda Lautsch, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 201-222, May 1995.
"Using the Dunlop Report to Achieve Mutual Gains," Kochan, Thomas, Industrial Relations, 34: 350-366, 1995.
"Work Organization and Training in American Enterprises” Institutions and Labor Market Performance: Comparative Views on the U.S. and German Economies (1995)
How Common Is Workplace Transformation and How Can We Explain Who Adopts It? Evidence From a National Survey (1994)
"HRM: An American View," with Lee Dyer, in John Storey, (ed.), Human Resource Management.London: Routledge, 332-51, 1994.
"Human Resource Strategies and Contingent Workers: The Case of Safety and Health in the Petrochemical Industry," Kochan, Thomas, Michael Smith, John Wells, James Rebitzer, Human Resource Management,33: 55-78, Spring 1994.
"Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in Korea: Implications for Further Reforms," in Y.H. Kim, (ed.), Korea's Political Economy, San Francisco: Westview Press, 1994.
"Internal Labor Markets: Theory and Change” Labor Economics, Institutions, and Markets (1994)
"Is There a Problem With the Youth Labor Market and If So How Should We Fix It? Lessons for the U.S. From American and European Experiences” Poverty, Inequality, and the Crisis of Social Policy: Western States in the New World Order (1994)
La Sociedad Transversal. Barcelona: Fundación La Caixa, 1994. Winner of the 1995 Miguel Angel Terribas Book Award.
"Labor and Employment Policies for a Global Economy," Kochan, Thomas, Industrial Law Journal, South Africa, 15: 689-707, 1994.
"Recent Developments in U.S. Industrial Relations," Kochan, Thomas, Marc Weinstein, The British Journal of IndustrialRelations, 32: 483-504, December 1994.
"The Mutual Gains Enterprise," with Paul Osterman, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994.
The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership Among Labor, Management, and Government. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1994.
"Canadian Labor Policy and Research at a Crossroads," Proceedings of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association, 1993.
"Democratic Imbalances between Countries of the Mediterranean Basin." de Miguel, Jesús M., Emilio J. Castilla, Jordi E. Caïs, and Juan Salcedo. Strasburg: CDPO, European Council, 1993. Official document CDPO8R.97E presented as item 5 on the Agenda of the 17th meeting of the European Population Committee.
"Desigualdad y Morbilidad.” Castilla, Emilio J., Jordi E. Caïs, and Jesús M. de Miguel, in Desigualdades ante la Salud. Madrid: Fundación Argentaria, 1993: 7-64.
Employer-Centered Training Programs for International Competitiveness: Lessons From State Programs (1993)
"Internal Labor Markets in a Changing Environment: Models and Evidence” Research Frontiers in Industrial Relations and Human Resources (1993)
"Managing Transformational Change: The Role of Human Resource Management Professionals," Kochan Thomas,Lee Dyer, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 569-590, 1993.
"Principles for a Post New Deal Employment Policy," in Clark Kerr and Paul Staudohar, (eds.), Labor Economics and Industrial Relations: Markets and Institutions, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
"Teaching and Building Middle Range Industrial Relations Theory," in Roy Adams and Noah Meltz, (eds.), Industrial Relations Theory, New Brunswick: Scarecrow Press, 1993, 353-380.
"Toward a Mutual Gains Paradigm for Labor-Management Relations," Kochan, Thomas, Labor Law Journal, 454-464, August 1993.
"Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations: Notes on Theory and Practice for the 1990s," AnnualProceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 185-195, 1993.
"An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations," with Harry C. Katz and Alex Colvin, NewYork: McGraw Hill, 1992. Second Edition, 2000, Fourth edition, 2007.
"Book Review: La Profesión de Economista: El Auge de Economistas, Ejecutivos y Empresarios en España by Mauro F. Guillén," Castilla, Emilio J., Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 59: 379-395. (1992)
"Bringing Research to the Classroom: The MIT Auto Case," Kochan, Thomas, Ben Whipple, MIT Management, 27-33, Winter, 1992.
"Human Resources, Organizational Governance, and Public Policy: Lessons from Experimentation in the 1980s," with Robert McKersie, in Kochan and Useem, (eds.), Transforming Organizations, New York: Oxford University Press, 169-86, 1992.
"International Human Resource Studies: A Review and Critique," with Lee Dyer and Rosemary Batt, in David Lewin, et. al., (eds.), Research Frontiers in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, Madison: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1992.
“La Organizacion del trabajo en Estados Unidos: Inferences para la politica industrial (Work Organization in the United States: Implications for Industrial Policy)” Politica Industrial, Teoria y Practica (1992)
“Latinos in the Midst of Plenty” Latinos in Boston Confronting Poverty, Building Community (1992)
“Para la Investigación de Estructuras Grandes, Procesos Amplios y Comparaciones Enormes.” Castilla, Emilio J. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 60: 129-145. (1992)
“Pressures and Prospects for Employment Security in the United States” Employment Security and Labor Market Behavior: Interdisciplinary Approaches and International Evidence (1992)
"The Consequences of a Failed IR System: Contract Workers in the Petrochemical Industry," Kochan, Thomas, John C. Wells, Michal Smith, Sloan Management Review, 79-89, Summer 1992.
"The Management of Contract Workers and the Risks of Accidents: Evidence from the Petrochemical Industry," Kochan, Thomas, James Rebitzer, Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association,1992, 325-331. (1992)
"Transforming Organizations," edited with Michael Useem, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
"American Unions and the Future of Worker Representation," Kochan, Thomas, Kirsten Wever, in George Strauss, Daniel Gallagher, and Jack Fiorito, (eds.), The State of Unions, Madison: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1991.
"Employee Participation, Work Redesign and New Technology: Implications for Manufacturing and Engineering Practice," in Gavriel Salvendy, (ed.), Handbook of Industrial Engineering, New York: John Wiley, 1991.
“Gains From Growth? The Impact of Full Employment in Boston on Poverty” The Urban Underclass (1991)
"Internal Labor Markets and Employment Security," Kochan, Thomas, Paul Osterman, in Katherine Abraham and Robert McKersie, (eds.), New Developments in Labor Markets, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991.
“Poverty and the Underclass: The Impact of Full Employment” Work and Welfare (1991)
“The Impact of Information Technology Upon Employment” The Corporation of the 1990's: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation (1991)
“The Productivity Consequences of Alternative Internal Labor Market Arrangements” Arbetskraft, Arbetsmarknad, och Producktivitet (1991)
Welfare Participation in a Full Employment Economy: The Impact of Neighborhood (1991)
"Comparison of Changes in U.S. and Canadian Industrial Relations," Kochan, Thomas, Anil Verma, Labor Law Journal, August, 1990.
“Innovations in Training and Human Resource Development: Integrating Public and Private Policy” New Developments in Worker Training: A Legacy for the 1990's
“The Future of Employment Policy: A U.S. Perspective” Flexibility in Labor Markets in the United States and Canada (1990)
"Collective Bargaining and New Technology," Kochan, Thomas, Boaz Tamir, in Greg Bamber and Russell Lansbury,(eds.), New Technology: Perspectives on Human Resources and Industrial Relations, London: Allen andUnwin, 1989.
"Computer-Aided Monitoring: Its Influence on Employee Job Satisfaction and Turnover," Kochan, Thomas, John Chalykoff, Personnel Psychology, 42: 807-34, 1989.
Employment Systems in the United States: Competing Models and Contingent Employment (1989)
"Future Directions for American Labor and Human Resources Policy," Relations Industrielles, Kochan, Thomas, Robert B. McKersie, 44: 224-244, 1989.
“The Job Market for Adolescents” Adolescence and Work: Influences of Social Structure, Labor Markets, and Culture (1989)
Employment Futures : Reorganization, Dislocation and Public Policy. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
"Employment Security at DEC: Sustaining Values Amid Environmental Change," Kochan, Thomas, Paul Osterman, John Paul MacDuffie, Human Resource Management Journal, Fall 1988.
"Enhancing Industrial Relations Innovations in the United States," in New Departures in IndustrialRelations, National Planning Association, 5-10, 1988.
“Human Resources, Technology, and Economic Performance: Evidence from the Automobile Industry," Kochan, Thomas, John Paul MacDuffie, Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 159-171, 1988.
"Industrial Relations Agenda for Change: The Case of the United States," Kochan, Thomas, Kirsten Wever, Labour, 2(2): 21-56 1988.
"On the Human Side of Technology," Kochan, Thomas, ICL Technical Journal, 391-400, November 1988.
"Recent Developments in U.S. Employee Involvement Activities: Erosion or Transformation?", Kochan, Thomas, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Anil Verma, in David Lipsky and Donna Sockell, (eds.), Advances in Industrial Relations, Greenwich: JAI Press, 1988.
"The Adaptability of the U.S. Industrial Relations System," Kochan, Thomas, Science, 15: 287-292, April 1988.
"The Future of Worker Representation: An American Perspective," Kochan, Thomas, Labour and Society, 13: 184-201, April 1988.
The Impact of Technological Change on Employment Structure in Telecommunications: Whatever Happened to the Wichita Lineman? (1988)
"Human Resource Management and Business Life Cycles: Some Preliminary Propositions," Kochan, Thomas, in Archie Kleingartner and Carolyn S. Anderson, (eds.), Human Resource Management in High Technology Firms,Lexington: Lexington Books, 183-200, 1987.
"Industrial Relations and Productivity in the U.S. Automobile Industry," Kochan, Thomas, Harry Katz and Jeffrey Keefe, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 3: 685-715, 1987.
"Labor Arbitration and Collective Bargaining in the 1990s: An Economic Analysis," Kochan, Thomas, in Walter J. Gershenfeld, (ed.), Arbitration 1986: Current and Expanding Roles, Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs, 44-59, 1987.
"Strategies for Sustaining Innovations in U.S. Industrial Relations," Kochan, Thomas, Journal of State Government, 60,January/February 1987, 30-35.
"Corporate Strategy, Workplace Innovation, and Union Members," Kochan, Thomas, Robert McKersie, John Chalykoff, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 39: 487-501, July 1986.
"Macro Determinants of the Future of the Study of Negotiations in Organizations," Kochan, Thomas, Anil Verma, in Roy J. Lewicki, Blair H. Sheppard, and Max H. Bazerman, (eds.), Research on Negotiations in Organizations,vol. 1, 1986b, Greenwich: JAI Press, 287-310, 1986.
"The Transformation of American Industrial Relations," with Harry C. Katz and Robert B. McKersie, NewYork: Basic Books, 1986. Second edition, 1994.
"Assessing the Effects of Industrial Relations and Quality of Working Life Efforts on Organizational Effectiveness," Kochan, Thomas, Harry Katz, Mark Weber, Academy of Management Journal, 28, 509-527, 1985.
"Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations: Text, Readings and Cases," with Thomas A. Barocci, Boston: Little Brown, 1985.
"Challenges and Choices for American Labor," Kochan, Thomas, ed., Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984.
"Strategic Choice and Industrial Relations Theory and Practice," Kochan, Thomas, Robert B. McKersie, Peter Cappelli, Industrial Relations, 27: 16-39, Winter 1984.
"The Transformation of the Industrial Relations and Personnel Function," Kochan, Thomas, Peter Cappelli, in Paul Osterman, (ed.), Internal Labor Markets, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984.
"Worker Participation and American Unions: Threat or Opportunity?," with Harry P. Katz and Nancy Mower,Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1984.
"Collective Bargaining, Work Organization, Worker Participation: The Return to Plant Level Bargaining," Kochan, Thomas, Harry C. Katz, Labor Law Journal, 34: 524-529, August 1983.
"Collective Bargaining: Pressures for Change," Kochan, Thomas, Robert B. McKersie, Sloan Management Review, 24: 59-65, Summer 1983.
"Industrial Relations Performance, Economic Performance and Quality of Working Life Efforts: An Inter-Plant Analysis," Kochan, Thomas, Harry Katz, Kenneth Gobeille, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 37: 13-17, October 1983.
"Negotiations in Organizations: Blending Industrial Relations and Organizational Behavior Approaches," Kochan, Thomas, Anil Verma, in Max Bazerman and Roy Lewicki, (eds.), Negotiating in Organizations, New York: Sage Publications, 1983.
"Canadian Management Policies, Structures and Practices under Collective Bargaining," Kochan, Thomas, John Godard, in Morley Gunderson and John Anderson, (eds.), Union Management Relations in Canada,Toronto: Addison Wesley, 1982.
Industrial Relations Research in the 1970s: Review and Appraisal, Kochan, Thomas, Daniel J.B. Mitchell and Lee Dyer eds., Madison, WI: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1982.
"Toward a Behavioral Model of Management Under Collective Bargaining," Kochan, Thomas, in Gerald Bomers and Richard Peterson, (eds.), Conflict Management and Industrial Relations, Boston: Kluwer, 1982.
"An American Perspective on the Integration of the Behavioral Sciences Into Industrial Relations," Kochan, Thomas, in Andrew W. J. Thomson, (ed.), Industrial Relations and the Behavioral Sciences in Britain, London: Saxon House, 1981.
"Empirical Research on Labor Law: Lessons from Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector," Kochan, Thomas, Illinois Law Review, 161-81, 1981.
"Estimating the Narcotic Effects: Choosing Techniques that Fit the Problem," Kochan, Thomas, Jean Baderschneider, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 35: 28-38, October 1981.
"Step by Step in the Middle East from the Perspective of the Labor Mediation Process," Kochan, Thomas, in Jeffrey Z. Rubin, (ed.), Dynamics of Third Party Intervention: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Conflict, New York: Praeger, 1981.
"The Effects of Collective Bargaining on Economic and Behavioral Job Outcomes," Kochan, Thomas, David E. Helfman, in Ronald G. Enrenberg, (ed.), Research in Labor Economics, vol. III, Greenwich: JAI Press,1981. (1981)
"Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations: From Theory to Policy and Practice," Kochan, Thomas, Harry C. Katz,Homewood: Irwin, 1980. Second edition, 1987.
"Collective Bargaining and Organizational Behavior Research," Kocan, Thomas, in Barry Staw and L.L. Cummings, (eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. II, Greenwich: JAI Press, 1980, 129-176.
"Industrial Relations Research: An Agenda for the 1980s," Kochan, Thomas, Monthly Labor Review, 103: 20-25, September 1980.
"How American Workers View Trade Unions," Kochan, Thomas, Monthly Labor Review, 102: 23-33, April 1979.
"Superior-Subordinate Relations: Leadership and Headship," Kochan, Thomas, Stuart M. Schmidt, Thomas A. DeCotiis, Human Relations, 28(3): 279-294, 1979.
"Dependence on Impasse Procedures: Police and Firefighters in New York State," Kochan, Thomas, Jean Baderschneider, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 31: 431-449, July 1978.
"Dispute Resolution Under Factfinding and Arbitration: An Empirical Analysis," Kochan, Thomas, Mordechai Mironi,Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Jean Baderschneider, and Todd Jick, New York: American Arbitration Association,1978. (1978)
"The Politics of Interest Arbitration," Kochan, Thomas, The Arbitration Journal, 33: 5-9, March 1978.
"The Public Sector Mediation Process: A Theory and Empirical Examination," Kochan, Thomas, Todd Jick, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 22: 209-240, June 1978.
"An Examination of the Dual Impasse Procedures in the Federal Public Service of Canada," Kochan, Thomas, JohnAnderson, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 3: 228-301, April 1977.
"An Interindustry Analysis of Bargaining Outcomes: Preliminary Evidence from 2-Digit Industries," Kochan, Thomas, Richard Block, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 431-452, August 1977.
"Collective Bargaining in the Public Service of Canada: An Evaluation of Some Policy Recommendations," Kochan, Thomas, John Anderson, Relations Industrielles, 32: 234-249, 1977.
"Interorganizational Relations: Patterns and Motivations," Kochan, Thomas, Stuart Schmidt, Administrative Science Quarterly, 22: 220-234, June 1977.
"Public Sector Labor Relations: Analysis and Readings," Kochan, Thomas, David Lewin, Peter Feuille and JohnDelaney, Thomas Horton and Daughters Publishers, 1977. Second edition, 1981. Third editionpublished by Lexington Books, 1987.
"The Effectiveness of Union-Management Safety Committees," Kochan, Thomas, Lee Dyer and David Lipsky, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1977.
"The Impact of Unionization of Public Sector Supervisors," Kochan, Thomas, Hoyt N. Wheeler, Monthly Labor Review, 100: 44-48, December 1977.
"Union Attitudes Toward Management Cooperation," Kochan, Thomas, Lee Dyer, David Lipsky, Industrial Relations, 16: 163-172, May 1977.
"A Model of Organizational Change in the Context of Union-Management Relations," Kochan, Thomas, Lee Dyer, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science,12: 58-78, February 1976.
"An Application of a Political Economy Approach to Effectiveness: Employment Service-Employer Exchanges," Kochan, Thomas, Stuart M. Schmidt, Administration and Society, 7: 455-475, February 1976.
"Operational and Concept of Goals and Goal Incompatibilities in Organizational Research," Kochan, Thomas, L.L.Cummings, George P. Huber, Human Relations, 29: 527-554, 1976.
"Theory, Methodology and Policy Evaluation in Collective Bargaining Research," Kochan, Thomas, Twenty-ninth Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 238-248, 1976.
"City Government Bargaining: A Path Analysis," Kochan, Thomas, Industrial Relations, 14(1): 90-101, February 1975.
"Determinants of Power of Boundary Units in an Inter-organizational Bargaining Relationship," Kochan, Thomas, Administrative Science Quarterly, 20: 434-452, September 1975.
"Municipal Collective Bargaining: A Model and Analysis of Bargaining Outcomes," Kochan, Thomas, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 29: 46-66, October 1975.
"A Theory of Multilateral Bargaining in City Governments," Kochan, Thomas, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 27(4): 525-542, July 1974.
"Collective Bargaining and the Quality of Work: The View of Local Union Activists," Kochan, Thomas, Lee Dyer, David Lipsky, Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 150-162, 1974.
"Correlates of Public Sector Bargaining Laws," Kochan, Thomas, Industrial Relations, 12: 322-337, October 1973.
"Resolving Management Conflict for Labor Negotiations," Chicago: International Personnel ManagementAssociation, 1973.
"The Concept of Conflict: Toward Conceptual Clarity," Kochan, Thomas, Stuart M. Schmidt, Administrative ScienceQuarterly, 17: 359-370, September 1972.
"City Employee Bargaining with a Divided Management," Madison: Industrial Relations Research Institute,1971. (1971)
"Interplant Transfer and Terminated Workers: A Comment," Kochan, Thomas, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 24(3): 442-446, April 1971.
“A Jobs Compact for America’s Future,” Harvard Business Review, forthcoming, March, 2012.
"Beyond Labor Day: The Year for a Jobs Compact,” Huffington Post, September 5, 2011
“Building a New Social Contract at Work: A Moral and Economic Imperative,” Journal of Catholic SocialThought, forthcoming, 9(1) 1-16, 2012.
“House of Green Cards: Statistical- versus Preference-based Accounts of Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals by Citizenship.” Rissing, Ben A. and Emilio J. Castilla. American Sociological Review
“Rethinking and Reframing U.S. Policy on Worker Voice and Representation,” Kochan, Thomas, ABA Law Journal, forthcoming, 2012.
“The Future of Human Capital: An Employment Relations Perspective,” forthcoming in Oxford Handbookof Human Capital, Alan Burton-Jones, ed., forthcoming, Oxford University Press (with Adam Seth Litwin).