Introduction
摘要
Corporate co-determination is still considered a special institutional arrangement in Germany, which has often been described as a success factor in international competition as well as an intermediary pacifying factor of conflicting interests (e.g. Geffers 2016; Müller-Jentsch 2008, 1998; Bosch 1997; Fürstenberg 1958). From this perspective, corporate co-determination appears as a social stabilizer in a dynamic process of continuous change, driven by intense competition. Works councils represent the interests of workforces and strive within this framework for a social balance of economic efficiency requirements for employees as well as for employment, thereby stabilizing, among other things, the maintenance of organizational commitment and trust in continuous change.