The Value of Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees
This study empirically investigates the value employees place on stock options using information from the option exercise behavior of individuals
Employee Share Ownership Schemes in Australia: A Survey of Key Issues and Themes
This paper surveys key issues and themes surrounding ESO schemes in Australia.
Employee Ownership and Organizational Outcomes
The relationship between employee ownership and desirable organizational outcomes is well documented, but the cause, if any, is not.
Groundings of Voice in Employee Rights
The author considers the idea that employee ownership of the organizations they work in can influence the dynamics of ‘sustainable peace.’
Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource Policies and Company Performance
The growth of ESOPs over the past 25 years is part of a general growth in compensation arrangements linking worker pay to company performance, including profit sharing, gain-sharing, and broad-based stock options in addition to the various methods of employee ownership.
The Strategic Use of Individual Employment Agreements: Three Case Studies
In light of varying outlooks on the process of individualisation in the hitherto collectively regulated industries, it was thought worthwhile revisiting the three disputes (those involving CRA Weipa, BHP, and the Commonwealth Bank) and thoroughly documenting them with a view to discovering what light they shed on the objectives of the individualisation process.
Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance: UK Evidence
This paper examines the use and consequences of shared compensation plans (profit sharing, profit related pay, SAYE schemes and company stock option plans) in a sample of UK workplaces and firms in the 1990s.
Sharing Ownership via Employee Stock Ownership
This paper summarizes the findings from over 50 large-sample empirical studies that have been done on employee ownership and broad-based stock option plans in the past 25 years, covering studies on plan adoption, employee attitudes and behaviours, firm performance, and employee wages and wealth.
Note on Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and Phantom Stock Plans
Provides a brief overview of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and phantom stock plans for owners of closely held companies.
The Evolution of Management in the Mondragon Cooperatives
The Mondragon Cooperative Corporation (MCC), a system of worker cooperatives located in the Basque country of Spain, is still considered to be one of the most significant models of worker ownership and community economic development, in the world.
Employee Ownership, Employee Attitudes, and Firm Performance: A Review of the Evidence
Employee ownership in U.S. companies has grown substantially in the past 20 years. This paper reviews and provides some meta-analyses on the accumulated evidence concerning the prevalence, causes, and effects of employee ownership, covering 25 studies of employee attitudes and behaviors, and 27 studies of productivity and profitability (with both cross-sectional and pre/post comparisons).