The paper addresses how corporate ownership influences and constrains managerial decision-making in industrial relations and HRM. The specific focus is stock-market listed companies, and the argument that the ownership of these firms tends to be associated with various labour management...

Do modes of management depend on company ownership? Does macroeconomic performance rely on shareholder value? The contributions collected in this book explore these questions from economic, historical and legal perspectives. They examine company ownership through the study of national...