Success of Process Innovations Through Active Works Council Participation.

ABSTRACT: Successful innovations are deemed to be necessary requisites for enterprise success. On the other hand, works council participation ("co-determination" in Germany) and employee participation are judged differently as either fostering employee and enterprise benefits or only the former or even none. Both forms of participation have found diverging theoretical and empirical argumentations regarding innovations. Here, we argue and show empirically that both forms of participation deliver positive contributions to innovation success, economically and employee-related, substantiated with qualitative reports from 36 process innovation cases and quantitative data from 44 cases. Qualitative case analyses reveal different profiles of works council participation depending on the innovation type. Ind

SUBMITTER: Breitling K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9024309 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature