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At the congress on Participation and Self-Management in Dubrovnik (then Yugoslavia), a group of some 25 social scientists from a dozen countries decided to conduct jointly an international comparative study on the impacts of rules and regulations on participation in companies. This international, interdisciplinary network: “Industrial Democracy in Europe (IDE) - International Research Group” has now cooperated in joint research for two decades. A first major study was conducted in 1975-7 (IDE, 1981). The following report covers a replication of that research “ten years on”. Some 80 publications resulted from the work of the IDE team (see IDE, 1992, in press). The first collective IDE report on theory, design and methods was published in this journal (IDE, 1976). Hence, with its present paper, the IDE group reaches the termination of a long-standing research cooperation.

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Industrial democracy in Europe revisited: summary and conclusions

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