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Context, enactment and contribution of employee voice in the boardroom: evidence from large German companies

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Corporate governance literature to date has tended to neglect employees and their impact, particularly at the level of company boards. Moreover, most research relating to boards has adopted a 'black box' approach and a distinctively quantitative methodology. Given these deficits, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive picture of employee voice in major German company boardrooms based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with directors from different board actor groups. It will be shown that board processes in the context of German parity codetermination are akin to political games, in which power structures, handling of information and consensus finding play a decisive role. Moreover, the importance of path dependency to understand and interpret those processes will be highlighted.

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  • Thomas Steger, 2011. "Context, enactment and contribution of employee voice in the boardroom: evidence from large German companies," International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(2), pages 111-134.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbget:v:6:y:2011:i:2:p:111-134
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    1. Jasmin Joecks & Kerstin Pull & Katrin Scharfenkamp, 2023. "Women directors and firm innovation: The role of women directors' representative function," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(2), pages 1203-1214, March.
    2. Simon Jäger & Benjamin Schoefer & Jörg Heining, 2021. "Labor in the Boardroom," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 136(2), pages 669-725.

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