This article deals with a model of worker participation which was introduced in a German car dealership and repair shop in the 1960s and which goes far beyond the legal framework of German codetermination ('Mitbestimmung'). The model comprises full codetermination in economic affairs,...

Die 70er Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts brachten neben neuen gesetzlichen Regelungen zur Mitbestimmung auch darüber hinausgehende Experimente der Beteiligung von Beschäftigten hervor. Eines der seinerzeit viel diskutierten Modelle war das der Firma Hoppmann, einem Kfz-Handelsbetrieb in Siegen....

This article deals with a model of worker participation which was introduced in a German car dealership and repair shop in the 1960s and which goes far beyond the legal framework of German codetermination (“Mitbestimmung”). The model comprises full codetermination in economic affairs,...