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.
The 1042 Roll-Over Cooperative in Practice: A Case Study of How Select Machine Became a Co-Op
On September 30, the seven employees of Select Machine, in Brimfield, Ohio, began to purchase their company from the two retiring owners, Doug Beavers and Bill Sagaser, using an employee-owned cooperative.
Productivity in Cooperatives and Worker-owned Enterprises: Ownership and Participation Make a Difference!
The survival rate of worker cooperatives and employee-owned firms in market economics appears to equal or surpass that of conventional firms. But they typically return a different combination of economic benefits to their member-owners than do conventional firms…
The Real World of Employee Ownership
Using data from an extensive study of employee-owned companies in Ohio, where employee ownership is a well-developed trend, this book offers a strong empirical portrait of firms with Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs).
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Promoting Employee Ownership at the Subnational Level
There are at least six reasons why we should be concerned with encouraging employee ownership at thesubnational level: at the level of the state, the province, the region, the municipality, or other subnationalgovernmental units or at the level of the industrial branch, cutting across governmental geographic units.