Employee Participation, Firm Performance and Survival
Employee Participation, Firm Performance and Survival

Author: Virginie Perotin

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2004-07-06

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0762311142

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This latest volume of "Advances" contains a series of original and innovative empirical and survey papers that investigate theoretical and contemporary issues facing participatory organizations. The first four papers explore the growing area of participatory and labor-managed firms' survival. The second group of three papers offers a number of new approaches and insights into the performance effects of participatory firms, and the final group of papers provides a broad-ranging synthesis and assessment of the experience of employee ownership and participation in transition economies. Collectively, these nine papers truly constitute "Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms".

Shared Capitalism at Work
Shared Capitalism at Work

Author: Douglas L. Kruse

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0226056961

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The historical relationship between capital and labor has evolved in the past few decades. One particularly noteworthy development is the rise of shared capitalism, a system in which workers have become partial owners of their firms and thus, in effect, both employees and stockholders. Profit sharing arrangements and gain-sharing bonuses, which tie compensation directly to a firm’s performance, also reflect this new attitude toward labor. Shared Capitalism at Work analyzes the effects of this trend on workers and firms. The contributors focus on four main areas: the fraction of firms that participate in shared capitalism programs in the United States and abroad, the factors that enable these firms to overcome classic free rider and risk problems, the effect of shared capitalism on firm performance, and the impact of shared capitalism on worker well-being. This volume provides essential studies for understanding the increasingly important role of shared capitalism in the modern workplace.

How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions?
How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions?

Author: Fidan Ana Kurtulus

Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute

Published: 2017-01-15

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0880995254

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Employee ownership firms offer workers the opportunity to own a stake in the firms where they work. This affords them the ability to share in profits and have a voice in firm-related decision-making. In this comprehensive new book, Kurtulus and Kruse provide new evidence on whether employee ownership firms are better equipped to survive recessions. In particular, they focus on broad-based employee ownership, which includes ownership at all levels in the firm’s hierarchy. The authors begin by defining what is meant by “employee ownership” and then discuss the prevalence of such firms in the United States. They also examine how employee ownership affects employment stability and why employee ownership firms have survived recessions more successfully than other firms. Kurtulus and Kruse conclude by saying that the benefits they observed in employee ownership firms, particularly the greater employment stability and survival rates, can help the overall economy. Therefore, increased government support to broaden employee ownership programs is merited.

Sharing in the Company
Sharing in the Company

Author: Erik Poutsma

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2017-06-12

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1785609653

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Volume 17 of Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms provides detailed analysis on standard econometric studies to new institutional economics to behavioral economics.

Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work
Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work

Author: Daphne Berry

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1787149587

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With a growing prominence of sophisticated econometric research in the field of New Economics of Participation (NEP), it is of particular value to learn about real-world examples of participatory and labor-managed firms in the advanced market economies through extensive case studies. In this volume, the authors present such case studies.