An Overview of Existing Data on Employee Share Ownership in Australia
This paper provides an overview of existing data on employee share ownership (ESO) in Australia. It is concerned with broad-based employee share ownership plans.
Effects of ESOP Adoption and Employee Ownership: Thirty Years of Research and Experience
In the mid-1970s employee ownership was a fringe phenomenon in the US. Today more than one in six US private sector employees now own shares in their company, and more than one in 12 US private sector employees now participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
Hy-Vee’s Winning Ways
Here’s why Hy-Vee is successful as a chain and as a marketer of its private brands: Location, Ownership, Organization, Brands, Promotion and Customer Focus.
Employee Financial Participation in the New Member States
This report looks at the current situation in relation to employee financial participation (EFP) and its recent developments in the new Member States (NMS) of the EU: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
A Positive Movement Forward: Carris Companies Employee-Governance
This chapter presents William (Bill) H. Carris’s distinctive organizational design for a positive and practical model of 100% employee-governance in the movement toward 100% employee-ownership of the Carris Companies, a manufacturer of wood, plastic, and metal reels in six United States locations and one in Mexico…
ESOPs and Earnings Management: An Empirical Note
This study seeks to ascertain the impact of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) on earnings management.
Broad-Based Employee Stock Options Grants and IPO Firms
CFOs may wonder about the best ways to keep stock-owning employees committed to the company after an IPO. Research by corporate finance professors Peter Roosenboom and Tjalling van der Groot shows a decrease in insiders’ stock ownership from 52.1% before the IPO to 34% afterward, an indication of the powerful financial lure a post-IPO stock sale presents.
Unions and Employee Ownership: A Road to Economic Democracy?
In the relationship between unions and employee share ownership, neither threatened the other, and their combination led to benefits for employees, particularly where unionized employees were majority owners.
Employee Share Ownership Plans: Evaluating the Role of Tax and Other Factors Using Two Case Studies
This study explores, through case studies of ESO plans at two Australian companies, three key issues relevant to the implementation of ESO plans and the policy and regulation applicable to ESO plans.
Ohio’s Oldest ESOP: Alloy Engineering’s Success Story
Extending ownership to all employees, involving all in managing the business and tying the compensation to profits brought a renaissance to Alloy Engineering twenty years ago.
These Workers Act like Owners (Because They Are)
Unlike so many other chief executives, Cecil Ursprung will never be accused of losing sight of his shareholders. He sees them every day—in the parking lot, in the hallways, even on the factory floor.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Equity Compensation
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Equity Compensation is a comprehensive overview of employee ownership practices and practicalities.
ESOP Strength in Minnesota
Why ESOPs work well for Minnesota companies. The state of Minnesota claims more ESOPs per capita than any other state.
Employee Share Ownership Schemes: Two Case Studies
This study seeks to open up an examination of the reasons for implementing an ESO scheme at the enterprise level in Australia, through two interview-based case studies conducted at National Australia Bank Ltd and Palm Springs Ltd.
The Political Economy of Employee Ownership in the United States: From Economic Democracy to Industrial Democracy?
This study examines the development of economic democracy in the United States since the 1700s with particular emphasis on the last 30 years. The particular focus is on employee ownership…
Insuring the Future: Foundation Secure, Co-Founder Focuses On Giving Back
Oswald Trippe & Co. will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year, but longevity isn’t what cofounder and chief executive officer Gary Trippe lists as his top accomplishment.
Employee Ownership Measures Up: A Discussion Guide for Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability and Social Accounting
Every employee owner worries about the bottom line. But, successful employee owners look beyond the here and now.
What is an Employee Cooperative? How Does It Work?: An Introduction for Employee-Members
An employee cooperative is a membership organization set up to market the labor and skills of its members through owning a business.
Employee Ownership Indices and Investment Funds in the U.S. 1992–Present
Provides a detailed slide presentation related to the history and experience os employee ownership indices and mutual funds in the United States.
Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms
The authors investigate how worker-owned and capitalist enterprises differ with respect to wages, employment, and capital in Italy, the market economy with the greatest incidence of worker-owned and worker-managed firms.
Binary Economics: The Economic Theory that Gave Rise to ESOPs
ESOPs are part of a broader approach to expanded capital ownership, broader prosperity, and economic justice known as binary economics. Binary economics was first advanced by Louis Kelso, who is also widely known as the inventor of the ESOP.
Give Everyone a Prize? Employee Stock Options in Private Venture-Backed Firms
This study investigates the impacts on the equity values of private venture-backed firms of the organizational depth to which they grant employee stock options.
eBay, Inc.: Stock Option Plans (A, B)
The footnote disclosure for eBay, Inc. in 2000 indicates that if the company had accounted for employee stock options under the fair value method, its reported profit of $48 million would have been a loss of $91 million.
The Straight Scoop on ESOPs: Why Is This Employee Benefit Plan So Popular in the Engineering Industry?
Why is this employee benefit plan so popular in the engineering industry?
Alpine Lumber: A Strategic Combination of Acquisitions, Value-Added Services and…
Growth rarely comes without growing pains, especially in the Darwinian world of retail. One of the major challenges for any successful business is managing growth by planning and executing effective strategies.