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    Firms should be governed democratically — Carmelics
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    Firms should be governed democratically

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    • 1.Firms should be governed democratically
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    • 2.Firms are like states in the relevant respects that justify democratic governance
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    • 1.Firms, unlike states, are voluntary associations that members can exit, making democratic legitimation unnecessary for authority.
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    • 2.The exit mechanism (Hirschman) provides sufficient protection against managerial power without requiring voice through democratic governance.
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    • 1.Shareholders bear residual financial risk that employees do not, grounding a Lockean property-based claim to governance control.
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    • 2.Democratic governance severs the link between risk-bearing and decision-making authority, creating perverse incentive structures that harm firm performance and third parties alike.
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    Arguments for these governance structures take various forms. One appeals to the value of protecting workers’ interests (González-Ricoy 2014; Hsieh 2005). Another appeals to the value of autonomy, or a right to freely determine one’s actions, including one’s actions at work (Malleson 2014; McCall 2001). A third argument for worker control is the “parallel case” argument. According to it, if states should be governed democratically, then so should firms, because firms are like states in the relev
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