This article analyses the Finnish employers’ policy preferences, strategies and success in the industrial democracy (ID) reform process of the 1960s–1970s. The article establishes the employers’ hierarchy of preferences, evaluates how successful they were in realising their objectives, and discusses the strategic choices and contextual factors behind their successes and losses. The article engages with scholarly discussions about interest groups’ policy preferences and success and emphasises the multifaceted nature and the temporal dimension of success. A sufficiently long timeframe is often necessary in order to assess the eventual winners and losers of a policy process, as well as the degrees of success attained by actors.

本文分析了芬兰雇主在 1960 年代至 1970 年代工业民主 (ID) 改革过程中的政策偏好、策略和成功。文章建立了雇主的偏好等级，评估他们在实现目标方面的成功程度，并讨论了他们成功和失败背后的战略选择和背景因素。这篇文章参与了关于利益集团政策偏好和成功的学术讨论，并强调了成功的多面性和时间维度。为了评估政策过程的最终赢家和输家，以及参与者取得的成功程度，通常需要足够长的时间框架。