Successful corporate democracy: Sustainable cooperation of capital and labor in the Dutch Breman Group
研究了荷兰中型工程公司布雷曼集团自1970年代初实施的企业民主模式，说明其如何通过民主结构和程序促进组织适应与学习能力，对知识经济下的企业治理有借鉴意义。
Executive Overview The typical modern corporation is based on the old-fashioned blueprint of the shareholder-driven hierarchy. A worthwhile question is how alternative blueprints of corporate democracy might better satisfy the requirements of modern knowledge economies. In this article, we introduce a model of corporate democracy developed and implemented by the medium-sized Dutch engineering firm Breman Group in the early 1970s. The model has been in place ever since. We argue that Breman's democratic structures and procedures help to develop and sustain organizational adaptation and learning capabilities and competencies which are critical to a knowledge- and service-based economy. We provide lessons that can be learned from the Breman example and illustrate how the Breman model of democracy has been and can be implemented in other existing and newer organizations.