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The Corporation Reborn : From Shareholder Primacy to Shared Governance
Hayden, Grant M. - 2020
The consensus around shareholder primacy is crumbling. Investors, long assumed to be uncomplicated profit-maximizers, are looking for ways to express a wider range of values in allocating their funds. Workers are agitating for greater voice at their workplaces. And prominent legislators have...
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Minority representation at work
Breuer, Matthias; Cai, Wei; Le, Anthony; Vetter, Felix - 2024 - This version: May 2024
Recent proposals for a more inclusive capitalism call for labor and minority representation in corporate governance. We examine the joint promise of labor and minority representation in the context of German works councils. The councils are a powerful form of labor representation that grants...
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Regulatory capital : implications on credit creation and profitability
Oino, Isaiah - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-15
shareholder's need (i.e profitability) and regulatory requirements (liquidity and capital) is a delicate balance that banks strive …. Liquidity and regulatory capital requirements have gained momentum after the 2008 global financial crisis. Meeting the …, the findings indicate that higher capital requirements for banks significantly positively influence liquidity. Furthermore …
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Nonunion worker representation, foreign owners and the performance of establishments
Jirjahn, Uwe; Müller, Steffen - 2011
Using German establishment data, this study provides the first econometric analysis on the interaction of establishment-level codetermination and foreign owners. Works councils are associated with higher productivity in domestic-owned establishments while they are associated with lower...
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Active owners and the failure of newly adopted works councils
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2013
Using representative data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show that employees in establishments with active owners are less likely to introduce a works council. Moreover, we show that, in case of an introduction, the new works council is less likely to survive if active owners are present....
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Active owners and the failure of newly adopted works councils
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2013
Using representative data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show that employees in establishments with active owners are less likely to introduce a works council. Moreover, we show that, in case of an introduction, the new works council is less likely to survive if active owners are present....
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Active Owners and the Failure of Newly Adopted Works Councils
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2013
Using representative data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show that employees in establishments with active owners are less likely to introduce a works council. Moreover, we show that, in case of an introduction, the new works council is less likely to survive if active owners are present....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074162
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Do Labor Unions Always Lead to Underinvestment?
Cho, Hyungjin - 2016
We examine the relation between labor union strength and investment efficiency using comprehensive firm-level data of Korean listed companies. We find that the perceived underinvestment related to unionization documented in previous studies is attributable to a negative relation between union...
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Globalisierung und betriebliche Mitbestimmung
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert verschiedene Szenarien zum Einfluss von Auslandsdirektinvestitionen auf die betriebliche Mitbestimmung in Deutschland. Vorliegende Studien sprechen dafür, dass die Funktionsfähigkeit betrieblicher Mitbestimmung in Betrieben mit ausländischen Eigentümern...
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Worker voice and political participation in civil society
Budd, John W.; Lamare, J. Ryan - 2020
Worker voice can relate to political and civic participation in numerous ways. Individual and collective voice can equip individuals with skills and attitudes that increase political engagement, and unions also explicitly encourage members to be politically aware, vote, and run for office. Labor...
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