Employee Participation Rights in Corporate Governance: An Economic Rationale, a Test of a Leading Theory, and Some Initial Policy Proposals

Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages 105-146

  Smith, Stephen C ^a  

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EID: 33645936991     PISSN: 08853339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3339(05)09004-6     Document Type: Review

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