Managers’ views on employees’ parental leave: Problems and solutions within different institutional logics

Parental leave and child health.

This study investigates whether rights to parental leave improve pediatric health. Aggregate data are used for 16 European countries over the 1969 through 1994 period. More generous paid leave is found to reduce deaths of infants and young children. The magnitudes of the estimated effects are substantial, especially where a causal effect of leave is most plausible. In particular, there is a muc...

Parental leave policies and parents' employment and leave-taking.

We describe trends in maternal employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to which these behaviors are influenced by parental leave policies. Data are from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplements, merged with other months of the CPS, and cover the period 1987 to 1994. This time span is one during which parental leave legislation expanded a...

Perspectives of Urban Corner Store Owners and Managers on Community Health Problems and Solutions

INTRODUCTION Urban corner store interventions have been implemented to improve access to and promote purchase of healthy foods. However, the perspectives of store owners and managers, who deliver and shape these interventions in collaboration with nonprofit, government, and academic partners, have been largely overlooked. We sought to explore the views of store owners and managers on the role o...

Institutional Logics and Institutional Pluralism : The Contestation of Care and

We are grateful for the many scholars and medical practitioners who helped with our research. We thank the editor, Mauro Guillén, three anonymous reviewers who helped to substantially improve the paper, the participants of the EGOS 2007 Subtheme on Professions, the Boston College Research Workshop 2008, and the following people who provided helpful comments on prior drafts of our paper: Forrest...

HMO managers' views on financial incentives and quality.