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Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Company Stock

2004
AbstractEmployee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) are a special form of defined contribution (DC) plan available to corporate sponsors in which the investments are not employee directed. There are essentially two types of ESOPs: ESOPs that borrow money to buy stock in the sponsoring employer, and ESOPs that do not borrow money.
August Baker, Dennis E. Logue, Jack S. Rader   +2 more
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Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Stock‐price Informativeness

China & World Economy
AbstractThis study examines the impact of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) on stock‐price informativeness in Chinese stock markets. Its findings indicate that firms implementing ESOPs experienced an average 11.89 percent increase in stock‐price informativeness.
Yuehua Zuo, Xin Huang, Xiaojun Liu, Yunhao Dai   +3 more
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Employee stock ownership plans and three‐component commitment

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 2004
Previous studies of employee ownership have conceptualized its chief attitudinal outcome principally as an emotional bond to the organization (i.e. affective commitment), despite a growing consensus that commitment is multifaceted. Using a sample of airline pilots, we assessed relationships between ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) attributes and ...
Robert A. Culpepper, John E. Gamble, Meg G. Blubaugh   +2 more
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Pros and cons of employee stock ownership plans

Business Horizons, 1976
An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) can offer many advantages to the sponsoring company, its employees and its stockholders. However, any company considering the establishment of this type of employee benefit plan should carefully explore the issues involved before proceeding.
Wallace F. Forbes, Donald P. Partland
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Impact of Employee Stock Ownership Plans on Employee Morale

American Journal of Small Business, 1980
This study analyzed the impact of an ESOP on employee morale. It also related employee morale changes to several generalized performance criteria of firms and of small businesses. Key executives of companies in the sample were surveyed to learn their estimate of employee morale before and after the installation of ESOP and to supply data regarding the
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Employee Stock Ownership Plans: Motivation and Morale Issues

Compensation & Benefits Review, 1990
As a motivating force and a morale booster, an employee stock ownership plan-an ESOP-leaves much to be desired-but its shortcomings can be addressed.
William Smith, Harold Lazarus, Harold Murray Kalkstein   +2 more
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Employee Stock Ownership Plans: A Status Report

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
For the past 25 years, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) have provided employers with a means to transfer substantial ownership interests to their employees. But as the popularity of company stock as an investment option increases among employees, employers have some new alternatives to consider.
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Employee Stock Ownership Plans, Common Stock Wealth Effects and Stock Price Variability

Managerial Finance, 1997
The objective of this paper is to document the impact of several types of ESOP announcements on shareholder wealth. The market welcomes the news of initiation ESOPs, nonleveraged ESOPs and ESOPs implemented by firms with B‐BAA Moody's bond rating. However, the market indifferently responds to announcements of expansion ESOPs, leveraged ESOPs and ESOPs ...
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Employee Stock Ownership Plans: Popularity, Productivity, and Prospects

Management Research News, 1991
Employee ownership has a rich tradition throughout the world in the form of co‐operative enterprises, however, the concept has received a new boost in the form of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). In order to understand why the stock model of ownership has received so much attention worldwide, one must examine the known and potential benefits of ...
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Employee stock ownership plans: A new way to work

Business Horizons, 1983
S ince the Industrial Revolution, it has always been assumed that a few people would actually own the means of production and everyone else would work for them. Any other alternative, it seemed, was sociali s t i c -o r worse. In the last ten years, however, more and more American businesses are taking a new approachthey ' r e making their workers ...
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