Building a Resilient ESOP Company
This is a self-help manual for enhancing the culture and results at your ESOP company.
Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership YouTube Channel
Series of videos about employee ownership produced by the Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership. The Millionaire Grocery Clerk At the grocery chain WinCo Foods, grocery clerks become millionaires. How? WinCo is employee owned through an ESOP. ESOPs are a win win win win – businesses get significant tax breaks, owners get paid full fair market … Read More
GPS 2020: Guidance, Procedures, Systems – Combined 4-in-1 Volume
The CEPI provides unbiased guidance and resources for issuers, service providers and auditors. This combined 4-in-1 volume covers Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units, Performance Awards, and Global Equity Plans. This volume is designed to help prepare people for examinations necessary to achieve the Certified Equity Professional designation from the Certified … Read More
Employee Ownership and Group Incentives (HRM 533:325)
This course will explore the contemporary revival of interest in broad based employee share ownership structures. We will investigate the legal and policy frameworks that presently structure employee ownership.
Employee Stock Ownership and Financial Performance in European Countries: The Moderating Effects of Uncertainty Avoidance and Social Trust
This study investigates how the effect of employee stock ownership on financial performance may hinge on the diverse cultural and societal contexts of European countries. Based on agency and national culture theories, we hypothesize that the positive relationship between employee stock ownership and return on assets (ROA) is stronger in those nations with lower uncertainty … Read More
All For One and One For All: A Mechanism Through Which Broad‐Based Employee Stock Ownership and Employee‐Perceived Involvement Practice Create a Productive Workforce
Drawing on social identity theory, this research frames a multimediational model that delineates how broad‐based employee stock ownership (BESO) and employee‐perceived involvement practice in tandem yield a productive workforce at the organization level. In our theoretical model, we propose that social cohesion and voluntary turnover are collective attitudinal and behavioral outcomes resulting from the shared … Read More
Broad-Based Employee Stock Ownership: What Makes It Effective in the Management of Human Resources?
Research linking broad‐based employee stock ownership (BESO) with firm performance continues to receive considerable attention both in and outside the field of management. Despite the evidence being generally positive regarding the BESO–firm performance relationship, there has been a relative dearth of research providing insights into the circumstances surrounding the effectiveness of BESO. With this research … Read More
A Guide to DOL ESOP Investigations
The first comprehensive analysis of Department of Labor ESOP investigations ever conducted, plus practical advice from experts.
Employee Ownership By the Numbers
Estimated Number of Plans and Employees; Value of Plan Assets.
The Value of ESOPs in Engineering Firms
While all kinds of businesses become employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) companies, there is a large percentage of engineering firms that have chosen the ESOP structure. Why so?
Five Myths of Employee Ownership
This presentation discusses five myths surrounding employee ownership…
Research on Employee Ownership, Corporate Performance, and Employee Compensation
Over the years, the NCEO has reported on new research on employee ownership and corporate performance. Now that a substantial body of work exists on the subject, they thought it would make sense to summarize it in one place.
An Introduction to ESOPs, 18th edition
This short book from the National Center for Employee Ownership explains how ESOPs work in a clear and concise manner.
Stock-Based Compensation at Twitter
Olivia Nash, an analyst at leading hedge fund BlueShark Capital Management, had just finished listening to the hour-long earnings call for Twitter’s Q4 2017 results. Was Twitter doing well? That depended on which numbers she chose to believe. According to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Twitter had recorded a $108M net loss for 2017. But … Read More
Using an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) for Business Continuity in a Closely Held Company
Congress designed ESOPs to be the most cost-effective means for both owners and companies to provide for business transition. One of the most difficult problems for owners of closely-held businesses is finding a way to turn their equity in a business into cash for retirement or other purposes. The decision to sell is more than … Read More
Shared Capitalism, Social Capital, and Intra-Organizational Dynamics
The purpose of this paper is to explore employee participation in ownership and control in a modern corporation and its impacts on intra-organizational social capital and workplace dynamics.
A Piece of the Pie? The Effects of Familial Control Enhancements on the Use of Broad‐Based Employee Ownership Programs in Family Firms
While family firms tend to be highly committed to their employees, scholars contend that founding family owners are likely hesitant when it comes to sharing ownership broadly with non-family employees. Taking a heterogeneous view of family firms, this study investigates the implications of different familial control‐enhancing mechanisms on the use of broad‐based employee ownership programs … Read More
Works Councils and Employer Attitudes Toward the Incentive Effects of HRM Practices
Purpose A growing number of econometric examinations show that works councils substantially shape the personnel policy of firms in Germany. Firms with works councils make greater use of various human resource management (HRM) practices. This gives rise to the question of whether employers view the shaping of personnel policy positively or negatively. Against this background, … Read More
ULMA Architectural Solutions: A Case from the Mondragon Cooperative Group
The chapter reinforces the fundamental roles of information-sharing and participation in enterprises with shared ownership, while making key distinctions between shopfloor and office workers experiences and perceptions.
Employee Involvement Under Rising Competitive Pressure: Evidence from Two Manufacturing Firms in Japan
In spite of the rich body of evidence on the effects of HPWS, there are at least two relatively unexplored yet potentially important questions: (i) The conditions under which the HPWS is best introduced and best sustained; and (ii) in what way the HPWS will need to evolve when external environments change. Our findings fill … Read More
Limitations of Business Unionism and Co-Op Conservatism: A Case Study of Denver’s Taxi Driver Union-Cooperatives
Immigrants are increasingly forming worker cooperatives, and the recent Denver taxi driver union-cooperative is one of the largest taxi cooperatives in the country. Current research on the labor empowerment consequences of these emerging immigrant cooperatives is sparse.
Structuring Firms to Benefit Low-Income Workers: An Employee Ownership Case Study
The employee benefits of employee ownership are not fully studied. This case contributes to understanding how employee ownership may reduce gender and racial wealth gaps, build family well-being, and become a model for structuring opportunity for those traditionally left out of the economic mainstream.
Board Structure at Carris Reels: A Participatory ESOP Company
This case study provides an in-depth look at a company’s board of directors’ composition-related decision-making in the context of broad-based participatory processes and the desire to maintain a profitable and fully employee-owned and governed enterprise.
Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies
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
Inter-Cooperation Mechanisms in Mondragon: Managing the Crisis of Fagor ElectrodomÉsticos
The closure of Fagor Electrodomésticos in October 2013, the most iconic cooperative in the Mondragon Group, not only cast doubt on the economic and social management of the cooperative itself but also called into question the very viability of the overall cooperative model.