Employee representation in japanese family and non-family SMEs

Matsuura, Tsukasa and Noda, Tomohiko (2017): Employee representation in japanese family and non-family SMEs.

Abstract

This paper analyzes differences in the effects of employee representations between family firms and non-family firms. First, managers from non-family firms have a more favorable response towards unions as organizations than managers from family firms. Managers from family firms tend to regard unions as harmful to their management, because unions may bring in outsiders, to the detriment of the management. Second, voice-oriented employee associations tend to exist more in non-family firms than in family ones. Third, these associations have a voice effect suppressing turnover rates in non-family firms, though not in family ones.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Family Firm, Employee Representation, Industrial Rotations, Exit-Voice Model
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J5 - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining > J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J5 - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining > J53 - Labor-Management Relations ; Industrial Jurisprudence; L - Industrial Organization > L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior > L20 - General

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