The discussion about employee representation on supervisory boards has received much attention from scholars and politicians around the world. We provide new insights to this ongoing debate by employing power indices from game theory to examine the "real" power of employees on boards and its...

In diesem Beitrag schlagen wir einen Index zum Einflusspotenzial der Arbeitnehmervertreter im mitbestimmten Aufsichtsrat vor, der sich aus der Addition von fünf Dummy- Variablen ergibt. Von einem hohen Einflusspotenzial der Arbeitnehmervertreter wird ausgegangen, wenn (1) der Aufsichtsrat...

By summarizing and further developing the state of empirical research on supervisory board codetermination, this paper contributes to the recent debate over codetermination’s future. Company level codetermination is widely spread among EU countries. Neither company comparisons nor country data...

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...