When Business Closes Down: Social Responsibilities and Management Actions

Fenton Thomas P. , “Plant Closed, Moved to Asia,” Maryknoll, April 1982, p. 50.

“Phasing Out of Sheffield Plant Termed Disaster for Alabama,” Athens Banner-Herald, November 29, 1981, p. 5-C.

Lublin Joann S. , “Unions Try New Kinds of Resistance as Anger Over Plant Closings Grows,” Wall Street Journal, January 27, 1982, p. 29.

Bluestone Barry Harrison Bennett , The Deindustrialization of America (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1982), p. 29.

Ibid, p. 29–36.

Ibid, p. 31.

“Many Plant Closings Reflect Switch in Strategy as Well as Poor Economy,” Wall Street Journal, October 15, 1982, p. 37.

“A Steel Town's Fight for Life,” Newsweek, March 28, 1983, pp. 49–50.

Felsten Gary J. , “Current Considerations in Plant Shutdowns and Relocations,” Personnel Journal, May 1981.

Jones Mary E. , “Twelve States Mull Laws on Closing of Plants,” Automotive News, February 22, 1982, p. 162.

Felsten , May 1981.

“Closing Notice,” Wall Street Journal, August 31, 1982, p. 1.

Felsten , May 1981.

Lublin , p. 29.

“A Tightening Vise on Plant Shutdowns,” Business Week, March 17, 1980, p. 38.

Textile Workers Union of America v. Darlington Manufacturing Co., 380 U.S. 263 (1965); See Morrison Cafeterias Consolidated, Inc. v. NLRB, 431 F. 2d 254 (3rd Cir. 1970).

Blinzler Alan P. , “The Complete Closing Doctrine and the Successorship Cases,” American Business Law Journal, Vol. 17, 1979, pp. 155–173.

Lublin , p. 29.

Morales Gerard , “The Obligation of a Multiplant Employer to Bargain on the Decision to Close One of Its Plants,” Labor Law Journal, November 1979, pp. 709–16.

“Labor's Powerful Bid to Limit Plant Closings,” Business Week, June 25, 1979, pp. 31–32.

Lublin , p. 29.

Drucker Peter F. , Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), pp. 327–28.

Quoted in “A Firm's Obligations: To Employees, Community,” Atlanta Journal, September 19, 1977, p. 4-C.

Kavanagh John P. , “Ethical Issues in Plant Relocation,” Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Winter 1982, pp. 21–33.

C. W. Post Center, Long Island University, Criteria for Decision Making, 1979, p. 12.

Quoted in Atlanta Journal, September 19, 1977. p. 4-C.

Strout Jeff , “Viner Shoe Expected to Be in Full Swing Soon,” Bangor News, January 21, 1981, p. 9.

Minsky Terri , “Gripes of Rath: Workers Who Bought Iowa Slaughterhouse Regret That They Did,” Wall Street Journal, December 2, 1981, p. 1.

Simison Robert L. , “Ford Motor to Close Facility in Alabama: Employees Won't Buy It or Take Cut in Pay,” Wall Street Journal, November 11, 1981, p. 5.

Athens Banner-Herald, 1981, p. 5-C.

“A Steel Town's Fight for Life,” Newsweek, March 28, 1983, p. 49.

Cornell University Workshop Report, The Economic Crisis and Self-Managed Alternatives (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, June 6–8, 1980), p. 8; cited in Northeast-Midwest Institute, Shutdown: A Guide for Communities Facing Plant Closings (Washington, D.C.: 1981), p. 17.

Rosen Cory , Employee Ownership: An Alternative to Plant Closings (Arlington, VA: National Center for Employee Ownership, February 1982), p. 1.

Starling Grover , The Changing Environment of Business (Boston: Kent Publishing Co., 1980), pp. 319–20.

Green Mark , “The Case for Corporate Democracy,” Regulation, May/June 1980, pp. 23–24.

Green , p. 26.

McKersie Robert B. , “Advance Notice,” Wall Street Journal, February 25, 1980, p. 20.

Ibid.

Johnston Phillip D. , “Personnel Planning for a Plant Shutdown,” Personnel Administrator, August 1981, pp. 53–57.

Ibid.

“Plant Closings: Easing the Pain,” Management Review, August 1981, pp. 5–6.

Ibid.

Litschert Robert J. Nicholson Edward A. , “Olin's Pullout from Saltville: A Company's Responsibility to the Community,” The Corporate Role and Ethical Behavior (New York: Petrocelli/Charter, 1977), pp. 102–15.

Northeast-Midwest Institute, pp. 28–30.

Preston Lee E. Post James E. , “Private Management and Public Policy,” California Management Review, Spring 1981, p. 61.

Sethi S. Prakash , “Dimensions of Corporate Social Performance: An Analytical Framework,” California Management Review, Spring 1975, pp. 58–64.

“Closing Shop: A Kentucky Plant Becomes a Model for ‘Good’ Plant Closings,” Wall Street Journal, April 12, 1983, p. 1.

Steiner George A. , The New CEO (New York: Macmillan, 1983), pp. 39–40.

Cited in Steiner , pp. 38–39.