The Authors : Christian Dufour, sociologist, is deputy director of IRES (Institute for Economic and Social Research, France) and a specialist in French and international industrial relations. He is scientific coordinator of La Revue de l'IRES. Adelheid Hege, sociologist, is a researcher at IRES (France) and specialises in international comparative industrial relations. She is responsible for the Chronique internationale de l'IRES.
Sofia Murhem, economist and historian, is a researcher at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden. Wolfgang Rudolph is a researcher at the Office for Social Research (Büro für Sozialforschung, Kassel, Germany). His main areas of research concern the development of works councils, employee representation in small companies and regional development. Wolfram Wassermann, sociologist, is a researcher at the Office for Social Research (Germany).
His research concerns codetermination, the sociology of small companies and the trade unions.