"The author explores the proposition that employee involvement through codetermination is likely to be successful for Swedish unions and corporations because the "social partnership" approach of the Swedish system favors it. He discusses the context, history, and law of codetermination of Sweden compared to the National La bor Relations Act, and relevant studies. He reviews codetermination practices at Ericsson, SKF Group, LKAB mining, Spendrups, and the newspaper Dagens Industri. He concludes that the corpora tions studied have benefited substantially from codetermination and that the unions studied have benefited from it when it has been used to address local decisions and conditions. However, he finds that these unions have been much less successful in using codetermination to change corporations' strategic decisions."

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