The Tension Between Worker Safety and Organization Survival

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pagell, Mark; Parkinson, Mary; Veltri, Anthony; Gray, John; Wiengarten, Frank; Louis, Michalis; Fynes, Brian
• 署名单位: University College Dublin; Oregon State University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2020.3589
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 4863-4878
• 关键词: government regulation econometrics; Workplace safety

摘要

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.