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Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies

Daphne Berry, Takao Kato | May, 2018

With a growing prominence of sophisticated econometric research in a much-expanded field of New Economics of Participation (NEP), it is of particular value to learn about real-world examples of participatory and labor-managed firms in the advanced market economies through extensive case studies. In this volume of Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, … Read More

Atlas Container Corporation: Thinking Outside the Box

Frank Shipper, Thomas J. Calo | May, 2018

A review of the literature found that companies that practiced a progressive set of HRPP and made decisions based on democratic principles are rare. Thus, knowledge of such a company should be valuable.

Atlas Container Corporation: Thinking Outside the Box

Frank Shipper, Thomas J. Calo | June, 2015

To survive, Atlas changed from an external to an internal growth strategy. The smoothness of the transition could at least be partially attributed to a set of internal strategies that were unusual for a commodity/cost-driven industry. They included democratic governance and employee ownership…

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