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Labour management may be understood as a generic concept for all cases when enterprises are managed by those working in them. Institutional forms of such enterprises differ and also the degree of self-management varies. It may be expected that labour-managed firms and economies will behave differently from those run by capitalist or state managers.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman.
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Horvat, B. (1987). Labour-Managed Economies. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_839-1
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