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It is often assumed that employee representatives exert power at the company board, but it is rarely made explicit how power is exercised and to what effect. This book, the first to assess national differences between board-level employee representatives in their exercise of influence and power, examines coordination among board-level employee representatives, trade unions, representatives from other institutions of labour representation within the company, management and other board members. Drawing on a large-scale survey distributed to board-level employee representatives, eleven expert contributors analyse for seven European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Slovenia and Sweden) how such issues and topics as the following affect the participation of employee representatives at the board: – capacity of board-level employee representatives to exercise power over long-term strategic corporate decision making; – how changed circumstances impinge on the role of employee representatives; – how coordination of workers’ interests has been established and maintained, if at all; – how board-level employee representatives are selected; – influence of board-level employee representatives on corporate restructuring; – effect of corporate codes of governance; – impact of the establishment of groups of companies; and – protections against dismissal and discrimination of board-level employee representatives. Each country chapter reviews the legislation that underpins board-level employee representation, the timeliness and quality of the information provided, and the capacity of the representatives to apply information made available, with the purpose of establishing whether the legislation tends to constrain or facilitate the exercise of in uence and power. This book takes a giant step towards answering the question of how board-level employee representatives can fulfil their roles in a manner consistent with the intentions of the policymakers who framed the legislation. Moreover, it approaches the possibility of developing pan-European legislation on board-level employee representation that would accommodate national variations. For these reasons, the book will be welcomed by European policymakers concerned with industrial relations or corporate governance, as well as by practitioners and academics in a wide swath of European legal and social studies.

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Aline Conchon is Policy Adviser at industriAll European Trade Union, Belgium and Associate Researcher at Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de sociologie conomique (Lise), CNRS-Cnam, France. Valentina Franca, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management at the University of Primorska, Slovenia, where she lectures on labour law and human resource management. As a lawyer with a Master's in economics, she focused her PhD on employee participation. She is a very active researcher at national and international level, publishing and attending conferences as well as conducting and collaborating on research projects. She is also a member of various professional associations and editorial boards. Inger Marie Hagen has worked at Fafo, a private research institute in Oslo, since 1995. Her PhD in sociology from the University of Oslo in 2010 was the first major study of board-level employee representative in Norway. Inger Marie has also published several studies on employee participation and the Norwegian labour market model. She has served as a board-level employee representative at Fafo and also as the president of the Norwegian Sociological Association (2011-2014). She works part-time as a lecturer in organisational theory and industrial relations at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. Jan Christoph Hennig is Research Assistant and doctoral student at the Chair of Management and Control at Georg-August University Goettingen. His research interests are in the area of corporate governance, particularly dealing with the structure of supervisory boards and its implications on firm decisions. In the course of his studies he focussed on institutional differences and specialised in quantitative analysis.

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