Klappentext: Unterschiedliche Wirtschaftskulturen werden die Europäische Union wesentlich prägen. Gegenüber einer Perspektive, die nur Großbetriebe für die Herausbildung europäischer Wirtschaftskulturen betrachtet, lenkt dieses Buch den Blick auf klein- und mittelbetriebliche...

Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is...

A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on...

A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers' behavioural profile in noninvestor-owned firms. This paper aims to fill this gap by...