This working paper investigates whether European board-level representation of employees in European Companies (SEs) is really ‘Europeanised' or is coloured by the national system of their company's country of origin.The authors used responses of employees sitting on SE boards to a...

1. Setting the scene -- 2. The situation de jure : the regulation of board-level employee representation -- 3. The morphology of board-level employee representation -- 4. The board agenda and processes -- 5. The exercise of power at the board -- 6. The articulation of board-level employee...

Demokratie am Arbeitsplatz ergibt sich aus dem Zusammenspiel von nationalen und zunehmend auch europäischen Institutionen und der gelebten Praxis der Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung bei Unternehmensentscheidungen (vgl. Kluge 2004). Ein wichtiger Aspekt sind dabei Systeme der Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung im...

Observers of the European Company legislative process identified the then-competing political projects as being driven in one case by the desire for harmonization, whereas the other focused on a flexible approach to regulating employee participation. Since the European institutions have...