This article is an attempt to integrate the efficiency perspectives that are traditionally nurtured in business schools with the employee participation perspectives outlined in studies of industrial relations. Global communication between business units, and employee participation and co-determination within business units, both haveimpact on corporate efficiency. The two approaches are synthesized in a conceptual framework combining the articulation of interests and resistance with value-creation and value destruction.
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