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Family Businesses and Trade Unions in Norway

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  • Trygve Gulbrandsen

    (Institute for Social Research, Oslo)

Abstract

In this article an examination is made of the extent to which employees in family businesses are members of unions compared to workers in non-family businesses and of the extent to which owners collaborate with trade unions. The analyses demonstrate that the percentage of union members in family businesses with a family CEO (owner-management), controlling for other factors, is significantly lower than in family businesses with CEOs who are not related or in non-family businesses. Theoretically, there are two possible explanations for this finding. The workers may abstain from joining a union because they are unwilling to bear the brunt of opposing an authoritarian owner-manager. Or, alternatively, the owner-manager may treat the employees so well that they see no need for a trade union. The analyses indicate that lower union density in owner-managed enterprises is associated with a higher wage level. This result lends support to the second explanation.

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  • Trygve Gulbrandsen, 2009. "Family Businesses and Trade Unions in Norway," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 30(4), pages 592-613, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:30:y:2009:i:4:p:592-613
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X09342617
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