The Employee Ownership Effect: A Review of the Evidence
The report is a rigorous study of the available international evidence into how companies with significant employee ownership perform, on a range of key business indicators.
Employee Ownership Association
Founded in 1979 as Job Ownership Limited, the Employee Ownership Association is a registered charity committed to generating new evidence and thinking about employee ownership.
From Colleagues to Owners: Transferring Ownership To Employees
Based on ten case studies, the report explains what motivated a highly diverse mix of businesses to consider employee ownership as a succession or start up route.
Making Employee Ownership Work: A Benchmark Guide
‘Making employee ownership work’ is a new guide from the Employee Ownership Association and co-ownership advisers the Baxi Partnership, based on a survey of 25 EOA member companies including John Lewis, Unipart, Arup and Mott MacDonald.
John Lewis Partnership
The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) is one of the UK’s most profitable retailers – sales grew by 6.3% and pre-tax profit by 18.7% in the year to 27 January 2008. Its success owes much to the co-ownership principles of its founder, John Spedan Lewis, who handed over control and ownership in two trust settlements in the last century.
Innovation Included: Why Co-Owned Businesses Are Good for Public Services
Written by internationally acclaimed business writer Charlie Leadbeater, Innovation Included makes the case for more public services to be provided by co-owned companies.
CoCo Companies: Work, Happiness and Employee Ownership
Successful enterprises are ones in which employees are active “co-creators” of value, rather than passive followers. But there are no MBA-taught wheezes which can boost an individual’s interest in the overall success of an organisation.