The Labor-Managed Firm
The Labor-Managed Firm

Author: Gregory K. Dow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-05

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1108509320

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In previous work, Gregory K. Dow created a broad and accessible overview of worker-controlled firms. In his new book, The Labor-Managed Firm: Theoretical Foundations, Dow provides the formal models that underpinned his earlier work, while developing promising new directions for economic research. Emphasizing that capital is alienable while labor is inalienable, Dow shows how this distinction, together with market imperfections, explains the rarity of labor-managed firms. This book uses modern microeconomics, exploits up-to-date empirical research, and constructs a unified theory that accounts for many facts about the behavior, performance, and design of labor-managed firms. With a large number of entirely new chapters, comprehensive updating of earlier material, a critique of the literature, and policy recommendations, here Dow presents the capstone work of his career, encompassing more than three decades of theoretical research.

The Labor-managed Economy
The Labor-managed Economy

Author: Jaroslav Vanek

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Monograph comprising an evaluation of workers self management experiences in Peru and Yugoslavia - discusses the solutions to macroeconomics problems such as unequal income distribution, decision making on capital investment, and labour productivity within self-managed firms, etc., and considers micro and macro economic theory relating to efficiency and competition. Graphs and references.

The General Theory of Labor-managed Market Economies
The General Theory of Labor-managed Market Economies

Author: Jaroslav Vanek

Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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Monograph presenting an economic theory in support of a new economic system based on workers' self-management (workers participation) - covers the equilibrium of a competitive enterprise and changing market conditions, the decentralization of decision making, labour supply functions, economic policy problems, 'income sharing' (wages) and wage incentive, the allocation of economic resources, legal aspects and basic institutional forms of the labour-managed economy, etc. Diagrams and references.

Participatory and Self-managed Firms
Participatory and Self-managed Firms

Author: Derek C. Jones

Publisher: Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Monographic comparison comprising an economic evaluation of workers participation and workers self management systems in developing countries and developed countries - explains methodology, tests economic theories and econometric models against empirical evidence, and discusses productivity, efficiency, changing industrial structures, production cooperatives, codetermination, workers stock ownership, etc. Bibliography pp. 331 and 352.

Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms
Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms

Author: Jed DeVaro

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2011-09-20

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0857247603

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Contains a stimulating collection of original papers spanning a variety of topics. This title contains three papers on the subject of job design and organizational performance, covering the determinants of multiskilling from a theoretical perspective and also the empirical effect of multiskilling and teams on financial performance.