Participación de las Personas Trabajadoras en la Empresa y Eficiencia Económica

• Salas Fumás, Vicente ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Zaragoza

     Universidad de Zaragoza

     Zaragoza, España

     
• Localización: CIRIEC - España. Revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa, ISSN 0213-8093, Nº. 115, 2025 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La participación de las personas trabajadoras en la empresa), págs. 39-68
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.7203/CIRIEC-E.115.30947
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Workers’ Participation in Firms and Economic Efficiency
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  • español

    El texto propone un marco general para el análisis de la participación de las personas trabajadoras en la empresa, y profundiza en la teoría y evidencia sobre la relación entre participación y eficiencia económica (productividad y bienestar de los trabajadores). La selección de la teoría y la evidencia está sesgada hacia investigaciones económicas que valoran la relación entre participación y eficiencia cuando el derecho de participación de los trabajadores está establecido por imperativo legal, y utilizan métodos de investigación cuasi experimentales. La revisión de los trabajos seleccionados sugiere que la participación laboral/cogestión en los países donde está establecida por ley, no cambia sustancialmente las relaciones de poder en las compañías, aunque podría mejorar marginalmente el desempeño de la empresa y el bienestar de los trabajadores por el impulso que supone para el intercambio de información y la cooperación, y por un aumento de la influencia de los trabajadores a través de más autonomía en su entorno de trabajo.

  • English

    The text proposes a general framework for analyzing worker participation in companies and delves into the theory and evidence on the relationship between participation and economic efficiency (productivity and workers’ well-being). The selection of theory andevidence is biased toward economic research that evaluates the relationship between participationand efficiency when workers’ participation rights are established by legal mandate, using quasi-experimental research methods. The review of the selected research work suggests that labor participation/co-determination in countries where it is legally established does notsubstantially change power relations within companies, although it may marginally improve company performance and workers’ well-being due to the boost it provides to information exchange and cooperation, and through an increase in workers’ influence via greater autonomyin their work environment.

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