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Contains papers which address the effects of institutions of governance, including new forms of workplace governance, a traditional form and financial participation schemes. This book also includes a paper which presents an analysis of the impact of international trade in a globalized economy.
List of contents
Foreward (D.C. Jones). Introduction (T.Kato, J.Pliskin). Empirical Advances I: The Effects of Institutions of Governance at the Corporate and Workplace levels. 1. The effects of New York practices - Evidence from employer-employee data, (T. Eriksson). 2. Participation, cooperatives and performance: An analysis of Spanish manufacturing firms (J.A. Moriones,et al.). 3. Unions and productivity growth: A meta-analytic rewiew, (C. Doucouliagos, P. Laroche). 4. Do ESOPs motivate employees? Worker effort, monitoring and participation in employee-owned stock ownership plans, (A.J. Ros). 5. On the causes of soft budget constraints: Firm-level evidence from Bulgaria and Romania, (G. Everaert, A. Hildebrandt). Empirical Advances II: The Determinants of Participation. 6. The incidence and determinants of employee share ownership and profit sharing in Europe (A. Pendleton, et al.). 7. Use of profit sharing when workers make decisions: Evidence from a survey of manufacturing workers (C. Adams). 8. Specific human capital and employee ownership (N. Wilson et al.). Theoretical Advances. 9. Union-firm bargaining over long-term benefits (J.E. Askildsen, N. Ireland). 10. Comparative Systems, destructive trade and world distributive justice (J. Vanek).
Summary
Contains papers which address the effects of institutions of governance, including new forms of workplace governance, a traditional form and financial participation schemes. This book also includes a paper which presents an analysis of the impact of international trade in a globalized economy.
