Employee Involvement and the Modern Firm

  • Tea Petrin
  • Aleš Vahčič
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Abstract

In the early 1970s the topic of workers’ participation attracted great attention among economists and also among other social scientists. Undoubtedly, professor Horvat has been the leading economist who devoted his rich scientific work to the development of the concept of workers’ self-management in the Marxist tradition. He has also popularized the concept among the Western and Eastern socialist economists and has had a significant number of followers particularly among his students. He presented his ideas in a large number of works published in the West as well as in the East. Here we will refer mainly to his seminal work The Political Economy of Socialism (Horvat, 1982).

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Entrepreneurial Firm Employee Involvement Employee Participation Quality Movement Cooperative Goal 
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  • Tea Petrin
  • Aleš Vahčič

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