One-third codetermination at company supervisory boards and firm performance in German manufacturing Industries: First direct evidence from a new type of enterprise data

Joachim Wagner ()

No 136, Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics

Abstract: This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination – firm performance nexus by using a new type of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises from a commercial data base and supplementary information collected from the firms with comprehensive data on the firms from official statistics. The data allow for the first time a direct comparison of enterprises from the same size class with and without codetermination at the supervisory board level. It is shown that one-third codetermination at the supervisory board level in limited-liability companies from West German manufacturing industries seems to be neither positively nor negatively related to two core firm performance indicators, productivity and profitability.

Keywords: One –third co-determination; firm performance; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2009-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eec, nep-eff and nep-sbm
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Journal Article: One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data (2011)
Working Paper: One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data (2009)
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