Performance and the Conjunction of Better Management Practices and Non-Union Workplace Representation
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Management as a technology; Work councils; Works council type; Firm performance; Trust; Mutual distrust; Germanic cluster;All these keywords.
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- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
- M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General
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