(Dis-)Owning the Corporation: Three Models of Employee-Shareholder Activism

New Political Economy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 89-111

  van der Zwan, Natascha ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Germany; industrial relations; organised labour; shareholder activism

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; EMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; INNOVATION; LABOR RELATIONS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84874501370     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2012.658767     Document Type: Article

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