"In Workers' Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina's empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (ERTs, worker-recuperated enterprises), a workers' occupy movement that surged at the turn-of-the-millennium in the thick of the country's...

This paper empirically examines the impact of self-managed working time (SMWT) on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. As a policy for the decentralization of decision rights, SMWT provides employees with extensive control over scheduling individual working time. From a...

Since the recent crisis, the resilience of worker cooperatives has not gone unnoticed in Europe (Cecop, 2012). In France this renewed interest in worker cooperatives has led to a new law in 2013 promoting this model of enterprise based on democratic governance. The legal status of worker...

This paper investigates the relationship between workplace democracy and job flows (net job creations, gross job creations and destructions) by comparing the behavior of worker-managed firms (WMFs) and conventional firms. The empirical analysis relies on high frequency administrative firm-level...

Research questions: How are management agreements in the German hotel market configured as reaction to the growing uncertainty? Which adaptations are made to management agreements in Germany according to their uncertainty reducing effect? Is a higher level of flexibility negotiated into...

Introduction -- Historical materialism and democratic firm management -- A system of producer cooperatives -- Democratic firm management and socialism -- More advantages of a system of democratic firms -- Unemployment in a system of producer cooperatives -- Democratic socialism and income...

Given that street business is conducted in highly place-specific fashions in different countries, the management of street business as an example of managing urban informality is a subject well worth investigating in the context of urban management. Drawing upon theories of decentralized...

Different theoretical explanations suggest that worker-managed firms (WMFs) are prone to failure in competitive environments. Using a long panel of Uruguayan firms, the author presents new evidence on firm survival comparing WMFs and conventional firms. Excluding microenterprises and controlling...