2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Definition, Incidence and Determinants of Profit Sharing
Published in: Profit Sharing and Company Performance
Publisher: Gabler
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The concept that employees might be paid in part out of profits is not new. The German economist Johann Heinrich von Thünen proposed theoretical arguments for profit sharing as early as 1850 (Thünen, 1850). First profit sharing plans in the United States were reported in 1794 (Coates, 1991).