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Priorities on Europeanization of work relations, workers' participation
in boardrooms of companies, industrial democracy and corporate governance

Graduate (Diploma) in social sciences, PhD in sociology (University of Kassel, Germany), specialist in comparative research on work relations and workers involvement, expertise on analysis of institutions

Languages spoken:
German, English

Most recent publications:

• Kluge, Norbert (2007) 'Codetermination and corporate governance', in Jepsen, Maria, et al. (ed) Social embedding and the integration of markets. An opportunity for transnational trade union action or an impossible task?, Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung edition

• Kluge, Norbert and Michael Stollt (ed) (2006) The European Company - Prospects for worker board-level participation in the enlarged EU, Brussels: ETUI-REHS and SDA.

• Kluge, Norbert and Jeremy Waddington (2006) 'Corporate governance and the voice of labour: Issues and debates', in SDA (ed) Paths to progress. Mapping innovation on information, consultation and participation for employee involvement in corporate governance, Brussels: SDA, 80-108.

• Kluge, Norbert (2005) “Corporate governance with co-determination – a key element of the European social model”, Transfer, 11, 2, 163 – 178

• Kluge, Norbert (2004) 'Workers' involvement in Europe - A still unfinished jigsaw', in Jorgensen, Henning, Mette Baerentsen and John Monks (ed) European Trade Union Yearbook 2003/2004, Brussels: ETUI, 115-136.

• Hauser-Ditz, Axel and Norbert Kluge (2001) 'Vorteil Mitbestimmung: Vom Nutzen innerbetrieblicher Kooperation', in Sperling, Jörg Abel und Hans Joachim (ed) Umbrüche und Kontinuitäten. Perspektiven nationaler und internationaler Arbeitsbeziehungen. Walther Müller-Jentsch zum 65. Geburtstag, München: Rainer Hampp Verlag, 169-186.

• Streeck, Wolfgang and Norbert Kluge (1999) Mitbestimmung in Deutschland. Tradition und Effizienz, Frankfurt und New York: Campus Verlag.

• Frick, Bernd, Norbert Kluge and Wolfgang Streeck (1999) Die wirtschaftlichen Folgen der Mitbestimmung, Frankfurt und New York: Campus Verlag.

• Kluge, Norbert (1996) Konfigurationen gewerkschaftlichen Forschungstransfers, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang.

Projects

• Innovation and trade unions
• Workers interest representation and trade unions in Europe – research findings, IRES-ETUI cooperation
• Survey on board-level representation in Europe
• Transnational collective bargaining and European Works Councils - research on substantive agreements
• MANIC - Provisions and practices of Managing Industrial Change with Workers' Involvement
• GOODCORP - bis
• SEEUROPE - Workers participation at board level in the SE - an element of good corporate governance
• EWC NETwork (expert network on European Works Councils) and EWC functioning
• Worker participation online: Website and EWC data services
• E-OWN – Employee ownership and financial participation and its place within the European system of workers' participation
• COBAN - European collective bargaining information network in EMCEF branches