One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data

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title = "One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data",
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 co-determination 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 = "Economics, empirical/statistics, Economics",
author = "Joachim Wagner",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.3790/schm.131.1.91",
language = "English",
volume = "131",
pages = "91--106",
journal = "Journal of Contextual Economics (JCE) - Schmollers Jahrbuch",
issn = "2568-7603",
publisher = "Duncker & Humblot GmbH",
number = "1",

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AB - 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 co-determination 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.

KW - Economics, empirical/statistics

KW - Economics

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DO - 10.3790/schm.131.1.91

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JO - Journal of Contextual Economics (JCE) - Schmollers Jahrbuch

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