Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply … reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We … find large cross-country differences in the adoption of management practices, with the US having the highest size …

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management … that existing quasiexperimental estimates suggest that codetermination has zero or very small positive effects on worker … codetermination laws using novel cross-country event studies exploiting a series of codetermination reforms between the 1960s and 2010 …

governance and review the rationale for what we term strategic partnerships' between management and labor. The paper describes … discussion of strategic issues: negotiated union-management partnership agreements, and union representation on corporate boards …

their jobs -- using policies like self-directed work teams, total equality management, quality circles, profit-sharing, and …

nature of such practices (except for small to medium size firms with no union where we find evidence for management to try to … a key role in Japanese participatory management will become less effective and less committed to the interest of the … rank and files. Second, top management sometimes finds its participatory management system detrimental to timely and …

German system of codetermination,' a governance system under which employees are allocated some control rights over corporate … assets by law. Codetermination laws require that employees be represented on the (supervisory) board of directors. If … codetermination sufficiently empowers employees, and if stockholders' rights cannot be contractually protected, then employees may …