What factors lead management to support or oppose employee participation-with and without works councils? Hypotheses and evidence from Germany

Industrial Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 650-680

  Jirjahn, Uwe ^a   Smith, Stephen C ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN RESOURCE; MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 33748690531     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2006.00446.x     Document Type: Article

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