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Employee shareholders in two privatised utilities
Author(s) -
Nichols Theo,
O'Connell Davidson Julia
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1992.tb00562.x
Subject(s) - shareholder , politics , function (biology) , business , accounting , economics , labour economics , finance , political science , corporate governance , law , evolutionary biology , biology
This article draws on a survey of over 400 employees in two privatised companies. It examines the relationship between the depth of share ownership and social class and prior political orientations, and suggests that employee attitudes are best understood as a function of these standard sociological factors.