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Most scholarships on corporate governance in the 1980s and 1990s have focused on the relationship between shareholders and managers or directors. Yet human capital, embodied in the employees, is rapidly becoming the most important source of value for corporations: outside the US they often have a significant formal role in corporate governance. This volume turns the spotlight on the neglected role of employees, analyzing the many ways - formal and informal - that employees are actually involved in the governance of corporation in America, and in Germany and Japan.

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Margaret M. Blair is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and author of Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-first Century (Brookings, 1995). Mark J. Roe , professor of business regulation and director of the Sloan Project on Corporate Governance at Columbia Law School, is the author of Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance (Princeton, 1996).

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