As a symbol of Germany's traditional consensual model of business, there is none better than Volkswagen (vw). Europe's biggest carmaker is a famed practitioner of the Mitbestimmung system of cooperation between managers and workers. A high percentage of its workers are unionised. Gerhard Schroeder, Germany's chancellor, is a former member of its supervisory board and the government of the state of Lower Saxony is its biggest shareholder, making it the most politically sensitive of the country's corporations.
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