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Narrowly defined, Employee Ownership (EO) is a mechanism for employees to have a financial stake in the enterprise. It can take many forms, including Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), worker-owned cooperatives, perpetual trusts, profit sharing, Employee Stock Option Plans, gain sharing, Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPPs), grants of restricted ...
Frank Shipper, Joseph R. Blasi
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Employee Ownership in Britain Today [PDF]
The chapter reviews the development of new forms of employee ownership in Britain since the 1980s. It compares trust-based and direct forms of ownership, as well as hybrids of the two, drawing attention to the perceived benefits of each. The chapter then considers the influences on the development of these forms of ownership.
Andrew Pendleton, Andrew Robinson
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Sharing Ownership via Employee Stock Ownership [PDF]
There is considerable focus at the moment on equity ownership. According to an article in The Economist, 1 in 2001 over 50 per cent of the adult population in the United States owned equity. This was a 100 per cent increase since the time of the market correction in 1987.
James C. Sesil+2 more
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Employee ownership – pros and cons – a review
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to give an updated overview of the research on employee ownership. What does the scientific literature reveal about advantages and disadvantages? What can be learned from different models used in Italy, France, Mondragon (Spain), UK and US with many employee-owned firms in contrast to Denmark.Design/methodology ...
Niels Mygind, Thomas Poulsen
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Is employee ownership so senseless
Résumé Depuis Enron et la ruine de milliers de ses employés, l’actionnariat salarié est critiqué. Investir son épargne en actions de son entreprise équivaudrait à parier sur un seul actif. De plus, l’efficacité contestée de l’actionnariat salarié ne justifierait pas que les entreprises distribuent des actions à leurs salariés.
Nicolas Aubert+3 more
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Employee Ownership, Employee Attitudes, and Firm Performance [PDF]
Employee ownership in U.S. companies has grown substantially in the past 20 years. This paper reviews and provides some meta-analyses on the accumulated evidence concerning the prevalence, causes, and effects of employee ownership, covering 25 studies of employee attitudes and behaviors, and 27 studies of productivity and profitability (with both cross-
Douglas Kruse, Joseph R. Blasi
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Does employee ownership improve performance? [PDF]
Employee ownership has attracted growing attention for its potential to improve economic outcomes for companies, workers, and the economy in general, and help reduce inequality.
Douglas Kruse
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Keeping them honest? Broad‐based employee ownership and earnings management
Does broad‐based employee ownership limit accrual earnings management?I run a series of random effect and fixed effect models on a sample of S&P 1500 firms between 2008 and 2019 to show that managers at employee‐owned firms manipulate earnings less than ...
Colin Birkhead
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PurposeThe paper traces the development of employee ownership in the UK since the 1980s. It proposes that employee ownership is a function of macro-level contexts and micro-level decisions, with the latter framed and guided by the former.
A. Pendleton+2 more
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Defining employee ownership: four meanings and two models
PurposeThe field of broad-based employee ownership within corporations is a specific application of the foundational topic of property ownership. It is situated at the intersection of a broad range of scholarly disciplines including economics, law ...
Christopher Mackin
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