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Journal of Labor Research, 1992
This paper analyzes the evolution of American unions’ attitudes and policies concerning employee ownership that coincided with the rapid growth of employee stock-ownership plans during the 1980s. From an initial position of opposing employee ownership and viewing it as a threat, many major unions have come to accept, and in some cases to promote, stock
Roger G. McElrath, Richard L. Rowan
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This paper analyzes the evolution of American unions’ attitudes and policies concerning employee ownership that coincided with the rapid growth of employee stock-ownership plans during the 1980s. From an initial position of opposing employee ownership and viewing it as a threat, many major unions have come to accept, and in some cases to promote, stock
Roger G. McElrath, Richard L. Rowan
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The Effect of Employee Stock Ownership Plans on Corporate Profits
The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1980Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP) recently have become popular as employee benefit plans. Arguments presented in their favor include increased productivity, lower employee turnover, and reduced costs of raising equity capital. Little empirical evidence has documented these purported benefits.
D. T. Livingston, James B. Henry
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An implicit contract approach to employee stock ownership plans
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1990Abstract This paper analyzes employee stock ownership plans in an implicit contract model under asymmetric information. Our model assumes that worker compensation schemes involve wage and stock payments, or wage-share contracts, and treats shares of stock as an enforceable claim on the firm's realized profits.
Dan Kovenock, Roger Sparks
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Employee Stock Ownership Plans: A Status Report
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000For 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 and three‐component commitment
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 2004Previous 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 ...
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The Impact of Employee Stock Ownership Plan on Corporate Performance
2020 The 4th International Conference on Business and Information Management, 2020As an ownership structure refining strategy, Employees Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) have been adopted smoothly with efficient outcomes in Western capitalist countries since it was proposed. In recent years, thanks to the great support from the government, the number of enterprises implementing ESOPs has been consistently increasing in China.
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Statutory Employee Stock Ownership Plans in the USA
2017An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is the most common vehicle for broad-based worker ownership in the United States. An ESOP is a legal trust that holds the shares of all the workers in a firm and thus makes it possible to have long-lasting worker ownership. Under US law existing companies can contribute stock or cash to this trust in order to buy
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Employee stock ownership plans: A new way to work
Business Horizons, 1983S 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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Employee Stock Ownership Plans: Popularity, Productivity, and Prospects
Management Research News, 1991Employee 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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