Participation in Organisations: Economic Approaches

Almudena Cañibano and David Marsden

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: Under the auspices of the debate about high performance work systems, it has been suggestedthat the evidence of positive results is disappointing and that one reason is that there has beena lack of theory. This paper argues that there is indeed a great deal of theory that could beused to reformulate the basic research questions, much of it coming from labour economicsbroadly understood. It includes a meta-survey of research on the effects of participation onperformance since the landmark survey by Levine and Tyson in 1990 which was verypositive. It finds that the evidence is less clear cut now. It is argued that this is due in part toconsideration of a wider range of performance outcomes, improved data and methods, and tothe wider diffusion of such practices compared with the 1980s. It is also suggested that thedebate needs to be widened to include a broader range of participatory structures.

Keywords: Labor-management relations; trade unions; collective bargaining; labormanagement; employee participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J5 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-08
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