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"Recently, there has been an increase in the attention paid to innovation. However, most of the attention seems to be devoted to innovation which takes place between organizations or between organizations and their customers. It is therefore useful to stand back a little and think about innovation within organizations: how does it take place, who are the actors involved, and how is it coordinated at different organizational levels. This article presents the results of qualitative research among seven Danish organizations, which have revolutionized their ways of organizing the production process. The article shows that shop stewards have become crucial organizational actors in coordinating employee-driven innovation (EDI) inside the firm by connecting different organizational and institutional levels. This has several implications for the European trade union movement."

"The present article investigates changes over time in the patterns of co-decision-making in a Danish multinational company that has grown through cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The findings show the difficulties that trade union representatives and management face when firms try to introduce a governance regime based on shareholder value ideology. The Danish tradition of cooperation between management and labour was especially affected, since the changes in co-decision-making processes destroyed more than top management understood or realized. The article argues that hybrid forms of governance are unlikely to emerge due to historically embedded governance institutions, which create distinct expectations about how a firm must be governed and who has the right to participate in this governance. The spread of the Anglo-Saxon model of governance in Europe is likely to have negative effects on co-decision-making processes and established patterns of organizational cooperation."