Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...

Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question - especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...

Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...

Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question - especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...

This paper studies how governance practices within and across national boundaries – specifically employee representation on the board – impact firm performance. Based on the property rights view of the firm, we propose that the relationship between employee representation on the board and...

This article argues that workers should have representation on corporate boards of directors and explores the policy choices available in the U.S. context achieve the goal of worker representation. Effectively implementing such a reform requires consideration of key issues, including: how many...

This paper, drawing on interviews conducted in 1989 and 1990 with directors nominated by unions to American corporate boards of directors, shows that union choices in the establishment of board representation in the 1980s reflected union strategy and structure. Those choices, in turn,...

We develop a model of corporate board including employee representatives in addition to shareholders and top executives. In line with the empirical literature, our model shows that low levels of employee representation may increase the shareholder value, even in the presence of a conflict of...

Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question - especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...