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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published online on May 11, 2009
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, doi:10.1093/cjres/rsp010
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society issue: Transforming Work [View the issue table of contents]

Institutional regimes and employee influence at work: a European comparison

Duncan Gallie

Nuffield College, University of Oxford, New Road OX1 1NF, UK. duncan.gallie{at}nuffield.ox.ac.uk


  Abstract

Employee's ability to exercise influence over their work tasks has long been seen as a critical aspect of the quality of work. Using comparative representative surveys, the paper examines how well the contrasting power resource and production regime theoretical perspectives account for the empirical differences between countries – taking Denmark, Finland, Germany, the United Kingdom and Sweden as paradigmatic cases of different regime types. It examines individual task discretion, collective team decision-making and consultative influence through management. It reveals the distinctively high level of influence at work of employees in the Nordic countries, a pattern that is most consistent with power resources theory.

Keywords: job control, participation, teamwork, Nordic countries, varieties of Capitalism

Received on November 11, 2008. Accepted on March 5, 2009.

JEL Classifications: J24, J42, J53, J81


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