First list of papers for the Brussels Conference of the IAFEP, July 4-6, 2002

(the list will be progressively completed with other papers)

Please note that these papers should be considered DRAFTS and not quoted without permission of the authors.

The papers below are listed according to authors. All papers are in PDF format. You may get the Adobe Acrobat Reader at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Union-firm bargaining over long term benefits
Jan Erik Askildsen (University of Bergen, Norway), Norman J. Ireland (University of Warwick, England)

High Performance Work Practices at Century’s End: Incidence, Diffusion,
Industry Group Differences and the Economic Environment, Joseph R. Blasi and Douglas L. Kruse
Rutgers University (Note the tables for this paper are in separate files: Table 1, Table 2, Table3-5, Table 6)

Different kinds of financial participation in credit/unicredit: ADAC’s employed shareholders by family savings privatisation and by human resources management plans
Francesco Bortot (ADAC, Italy)

INFORMAL SECTOR LABOUR RELATIONS, Akua Britwum (University of Cape Coast/APADEP, Ghana)

The economic system as an end or as a means, the socialization of consumption, and the role of the third sector: An evolutionary approach
Alberto Chilosi (University of Pisa, Italy)

The effects of ESOPs on Performance and Risk: Evidence from France
D’Arcimoles Charles-Henri (IAE de Tours, CERMAT, France),
Trebucq Stephane (Univ. Montesquieu-Bordeaux, IV, CRECCI, France)

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF
PROFIT SHARING, PERFORMANCE AND UNIONISATION
IN SELECTED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Daryl D'Art
(Department of Personnel and Employee Relations,
University of Limerick)Thomas Turner
(Department of Personnel and Employee Relatioans,
University of Limerick)

Share ownership and employee attitudes: Some Evidence from China’s Post-Privatisation Rural Industry
Xiao-yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg, Canada), Paul Bowles (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada), Samuel P.S. Ho (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Workers’ participation: The case of the Republic of Macedonia
Ljubomir Drakulevski, (University ‘Sts. Cyril and Methodius’, Skopje, Macedonia)

Basic wages and firm characteristics: Rent-Sharing in French Manufacturing
Fathi Fakhafkh (University of Paris II, France), Felix FitzRoy (University of St Andrews, UK)

Privatization of Ukrainian Shipyards
Bart Finzel (University of Minnesota, USA), Jelena Kmezic (University of Minnesota, USA)

Financial participation: a complementary compensation instrument
Ann Gevers (KU Leuven, Belgium), Stephan Cludts (KU Leuven, Belgium)

The Effects of Profit Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership Plans: The Case of Taiwan’s High-tech Firms
Tzu-Shian Han (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)

BULGARIAN OWNERSHIP PATTERNS IN TRANSITION
Derek Jones
(Hamilton College, USA)
Mark Klinedinst
(University of Southern Mississippi, USA)

An Endogenous Group Formation Theory of Cooperative Networks Sumit Joshi and Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University, U.S.)

Financial participation in the Netherlands
Eric Kaarsemaker (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Erik Poutsma (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Employee ownership and degeneration: Evidence from Estonian case studies
Panu Kalmi (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland)

Contradictions of workers’ participation in a Jute Mill: Case Study of a workers’ owned jute mill
George Mathew Kandathil (ISRO Satelllite Centre, India), Rahul Varman (Indian Institute of Technology, India)

New frontiers of democratic participation at work
Gerard Kester, Edward Zammit, Michael Gold

Workers’ Control as a Source of Customary Ownership Rights: Evidence from the Privatization in the Former Yugoslav Republics
Karim Medjad (H.E.C. Paris, France)

SMEs and participation in industrialized countries
Jacques Monat (Development Network Consultants, Switzerland)

"Organisational innovations, human resources and industrial relation. An enquire on the food sector in Emilia-Romagna, Paolo Pini
Ermano Tortia, and Massimiliano Mazzanti (University of Ferrara, Italy)

THE PRODUCTIVITY OF FIRMS IN TRANSITION: THE CASE OF SLOVENIA AND MACEDONIA,Janez Prasnikar
(University of Ljubljana, Slovenia),Will Bartlett (School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK, Polona Domadenik
Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Verica Hadzi Vasileva Markovska
Ernst & Young, Skopje, Macedonia

EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP AND
FIRM-SPECIFIC HUMAN CAPITAL
Andrew Robinson
(University of Leeds, UK)
Nicholas Wilson
(University of Leeds, UK)
Hao Zhang
(University of Leeds, UK)

The Polish Employee Representation in European Works Councils
Stanislaw Rudolf (University of Lodz, Poland)

PRODUCTION COALITIONS IN SLOVENIAN COMPANIES: EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION IN NON-PARTICIPATIVE ORGANIZATIONS?, Miroslav Stanojevic
(University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Bih privatization and workers participation: The case study of ‘Agrokomerc’ company
Dragoljub Stojanov (Faculty of Economics Sarajevo, BIH)

Globalization, destructive trade, and remedies through cooperation,
Jaroslav Vanek (Cornell University)