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Employee Involvement and the Modern Firm

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Equality, Participation, Transition

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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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  1. Tea Petrin
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Vojmir Franičević (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. University of Perugia, Italy

    Milica Uvalić (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

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Petrin, T., Vahčič, A. (2000). Employee Involvement and the Modern Firm. In: Franičević, V., Uvalić, M. (eds) Equality, Participation, Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523098_7

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