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Creating Mutual Gains to Leverage a Racially Diverse Workforce: The Effects of Firm-Level Racial Diversity on Financial and Workforce Outcomes Under the Use of Broad-Based Stock Options

Alison M. Konrad, Douglas Kruse, DuckJung Shin, Joo Hun Han, Joseph Blasi, William Castellano | October, 2020

Despite substantial scholarly attention to workforce demographic diversity, existing research is limited in understanding whether or in what contexts firm-level racial diversity relates to performance and workforce outcomes of the firm. Drawing on social interdependence theory along with insights from social exchange and psychological ownership theories, we propose that the use of broad-based stock options … Read More

The Art of Social Enterprise: Business as if People Mattered

Allen Bromberger, Carl Frankel | May, 2013

Aimed at emerging as well as established social entrepreneurs, for-profit leaders who want to introduce an element of social responsibility into their companies, and nonprofit organizations who want to increase their stability by generating income, The Art of Social Enterprise is the definitive guide to doing well while doing good.

Employee Ownership, Incentives and Environmental Sustainability

Mike Taylor | March, 2013

It is by now common for large corporations to employ several sustainability officers, occasionally in high-ranking positions. A less frequently used tool – employee ownership – may prove a more powerful sustainability over the long term…

Mid-Missouri Energy: Ethanol from Corn

Forest L. Reinhardt, James Weber, Karla Sartor, Noel Michele Holbrook | December, 2010

Mid-Missouri Energy is a farmer-owned cooperative created to take advantage of the growing interest in ethanol as an automotive fuel.

When Workers Take Charge

Aaron Smith | September, 2009

It’s a unique model – the worker-owned business. Some say it sounds like socialism, but these six companies say it’s helped them tough out the recession.

Microsoft’s Vega Project: Developing People and Products

Christopher A. Bartlett, Meg Wozny | March, 2000

This case describes Microsoft’s human resource philosophies and policies and illustrates how they work in practice to provide the company with a major source of competitive advantage. Discusses employee development, motivation, and retention efforts in one of Microsoft’s product groups.

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