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Collaborative Control and the Commons: Safeguarding Employee Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Brian K. Burton and
Craig P. Dunn
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Abstract

The logic of the commons is applied to the U.S. labor pool. It is argued that the labor pool is an “active” commons, a commons in which the resource as well as the users of the resource can change voluntarily. For this commons to be tended properly, technical solutions are ineffective and inappropriate; both employer and employee must have trust in the mechanisms that tie them together. Collaborative control is given as a possible framework for making the morality shift necessary to avoid ultimate tragedy.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 1996, pp. 277 - 288
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1996

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