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Broad-Based Employee Stock Ownership: What Makes It Effective in the Management of Human Resources?

Dan Weltmann, Douglas Kruse, Frank Mullins, Joseph Blasi | November, 2019

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 National Center for Employee Ownership | October, 2019

The first comprehensive analysis of Department of Labor ESOP investigations ever conducted, plus practical advice from experts.

Employee Ownership By the Numbers

The National Center for Employee Ownership | September, 2019

Estimated Number of Plans and Employees; Value of Plan Assets.

The Value of ESOPs in Engineering Firms

Thomas Roback Jr.

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

John Hoffmire

This presentation discusses five myths surrounding employee ownership…

Research on Employee Ownership, Corporate Performance, and Employee Compensation

The National Center for Employee Ownership | October, 2018

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

Scott Rodrick | October, 2018

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

Jonas Heese, Mike Young, Zeya Yang | October, 2018

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

The National Center for Employee Ownership | September, 2018

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

Sangjoon Lee | September 2018

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

Frank Mullins | September, 2018

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

Uwe Jirjahn | September, 2018

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

Aitziber Arregi Uzuriaga, Frederick Freundlich, Monica Gago | May, 2018

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

Arghya Ghosh, Hodaka Morita, Takao Kato | May, 2018

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

Minsun Ji | May, 2018

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

Janet Boguslaw, Sarah Taghvai-Soroui | May, 2018

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

Daphne Berry, David Fitz-Gerald | May, 2018

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

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

Inter-Cooperation Mechanisms in Mondragon: Managing the Crisis of Fagor ElectrodomÉsticos

Inaki Arenaza Bengoa, Saioa Arando | May, 2018

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.

Pritchett Controls: Ten Years Into Employee Ownership

Frank Shipper, Richard C. Hoffman, Wayne H. Decker | May, 2018

This case illustrates the rationale for adopting employee ownership, and difficulties in implementing employee empowerment beyond investment. In the beginning it focuses on why Jerry Pritchett, one of the co-founders of Pritchett Controls, decided to convert it to an employee-owned company. In the body of the case, it details the efforts of the company to … 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.

Mid South Building and Supply: Surviving the Great Recession

Frank Shipper, Marc D. Street, Thomas J. Calo, Vera L. Street | May, 2018

Whereas prior studies have used across-industry data to find that employee-owned firms are more likely to survive recessions than others, what such firms do differently was unclear. A literature review failed to reveal a prior study that looked at the internal practices that may cause this to happen.

Differential Impact of Short-Term and Long-Term Group Incentives

Andrea Kim, Kyongji Han | April, 2018

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the additive and differential effects of short-term-oriented group incentives (STOGIs) and long-term-oriented group incentives (LTOGIs) on psychological ownership and organizational commitment. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzed data from 17,255 US employees in the 2005 data set of the National Bureau of Economic Research Shared Capitalism Research. Findings … Read More

Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership (JPEO) in the Changing World of Participative Work Practices and Pay

Richard B. Freeman, Takao Kato | January, 2018

Work practices and modes of pay have changed in recent decades. The combination of an increasingly educated work force, new information and communication technologies, the influx of AI and big data into business practices from production and sales to human resources, the increased importance of teamwork and the growth of non-standard work arrangements which blur … Read More

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