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Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage
Authors: Heskett, James L.; Wheeler, Joe; Sasser, W. Earl
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: HBS Press
Publication Year: 2008
Employee-owners exhibit such enthusiasm for their organization that they infect countless customers with similar satisfaction, loyalty, and dedication. Customer-owners are in turn so satisfied with their experience that they relate their stories to others, persuade them to try your product, and provide constructive criticism and new product ideas.
Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
Authors: Freiberg, Jackie; Freiberg, Kevin
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Broadway Publishing
Publication Year: 1998
Southwest Airlines has created a culture where employees are treated as the company's number one asset.
Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place
Author: Abrams, John
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
Thoroughly revised with an expanded focus on employee ownership and workplace democracy, Companies We Keep celebrates the idea that when employees share in the rewards as well as the responsibility for the decisions they make, better decisions result.
Shared Capitalism at Work: Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options
Authors: Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph; Freeman, Richard B.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This collection of papers provides background on a number of employee ownership issues.
Employee Ownership: An Unstable Form or a Stabilizing Force?
Authors: Blair, Margaret; Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Chapter in Margaret M. Blair and Thomas Kochan (eds.). 2000. The New Relationship: Human Capital in the American Corporation. Brookings Institution Press: Washington, DC.
Publication Year: 2000
In this paper, we take on a seemingly very simple set of empirical questions that we hope will shed light on whether employee ownership of firms "works"...
The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company
Authors: Economy, Peter; Beyster, J. Robert
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wiley
Publication Year: 2007
Dr. Beyster tells the story of SAIC, and offers valuable lessons to entrepreneurs and managers on how to build a company in which loyalty to values goes hand in hand with success.
The Open-book Experience: Lessons from over 100 Companies Who Successfully Transformed Themselves
Author: Case, John
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Basic Books
Publication Year: 1998
Over the last decade companies have struggled to balance the human dimension of business with the need to be aggressive, competitive, and profitable.
The Southwest Airlines Way
Author: Gittell, Jody Hoffer
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: McGraw-Hill Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
The Southwest Airlines Way examines how the company uses high-performance relationships to create enormous competitive advantage in motivation, teamwork, and coordination among employees.
Creating a Bigger Pie? The Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance
Authors: Mackin, Christopher; Freeman, Richard B.; Blasi, Joseph; Kruse, Douglas
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This paper uses data from NBER surveys of over 40,000 employees in hundreds of facilities in 14 firms and from employees on the 2002 and 2006 General Social Surveys to explore how shared compensation affects turnover, absenteeism, loyalty, worker effort, and other outcomes affecting workplace performance.
Who Benefits from Shared Capitalism? The Social Stratification of Wealth and Power in Companies with Employee Ownership
Author: Carberry, Edward J.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This paper analyzes social stratification in patterns of access to shared capitalism programs, the value of shared capitalist plan assets, and access to workplace power and authority in a sample of over 40,000 employees in 14 companies with various forms of shared capitalism in the United States.
In the Company of Owners: The Truth About Stock Options and Why Every Employee Should Have Them
Authors: Blasi, Joseph; Kruse, Douglas; Bernstein, Aaron
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Basic Books
Publication Year: 2003
The string of business scandals that recently engulfed America painted a picture of corporate chieftains lining their pockets by cutting corners, cooking the books, and duping gullible investors. In doing so, greedy CEOs have hijacked what could be one of the most important business innovations in decades: stock options for all employees.
Do Workers Gain by Sharing? Employee Outcomes under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options
Authors: Kruse, Douglas; Freeman, Richard B.; Blasi, Joseph
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
Apart from the extreme cases that get publicized, are employee stock ownership plans generally good or bad for workers?
The Decision-Maker's Guide to Equity Compensation
Authors: Rosen, Corey; Chernoff, Pam; Janich, Daniel N.; Rodrick, Scott
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Companies can offer employees a variety of kinds of equity in their plans, with some restrictions. ESOPs, for instance, must own stock with the highest combination of voting and dividend rights (typically Class A common) or stock that is convertible into that class of stock. Profit sharing and 401(k) plans cannot own options or other forms of equity rights. The necessity that the ESOP get shares that carry voting rights (or shares convertible into such shares) is, as we will see later, not really a problem and should not be a factor in choosing or not choosing an ESOP as it does not mean that owners who want to maintain control of the company must cede that control to workers...
How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK?
Authors: Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This paper uses nationally representative linked workplace-employee data from the British 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the operation of shared capitalist forms of pay—profit-sharing and group pay for performance, employee share ownership, and stock options—and their link to productivity.
Show Me the Money: Does Shared Capitalism Share the Wealth?
Authors: Buchele, Robert; Kruse, Douglas; Rodgers, Loren; Scharf, Adria
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This paper examines the effect of a variety of employee stock ownership programs – including ESOPs and broad based stock options – on employees’ holdings of their employers’ stock, their earnings and their wealth.
Worker Responses to Shirking under Shared Capitalism
Authors: Freeman, Richard B.; Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
Group incentive systems have to overcome the free rider or 1/N problem, which gives workers an incentive to shirk, if they are to succeed.
Shared Capitalism in the US Economy
Authors: Park, Rhokeun; Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
Between one-third and one-half of employees participate directly in company performance through profit sharing, gain sharing, employee ownership, or stock options.
Equity: Why Employee Ownership is Good for Business
Authors: Rosen, Corey; Case, John; Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harvard Business Press
Publication Year: 2005
Today, more than 25 percent of American workers own stock in their employers. Now Corey Rosen, John Case, and Martin Staubus present convincing evidence that employee ownership can be much more than just a good benefit program.
Risk and Lack of Diversification under Employee Ownership and Shared Capitalism
Authors: Markowitz, Harry M.; Blasi, Joseph; Kruse, Douglas
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This paper addresses whether the risk in shared capitalism makes it unwise for most workers or whether the risk can be managed to limit much of the loss of utility from holding the extra risk.
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Equity Compensation
Authors: Binns, David; Bernstein, Ron
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2006
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Equity Compensation is a comprehensive overview of employee ownership practices and practicalities.
Does Employee Ignorance Undermine Shared Capitalism?
Author: Budd, John W.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This paper analyzes a survey of employees from multiple companies to assess the extent to which employees are ignorant about company, group, and individual-based incentive pay plans and ESOPs.
Shared Capitalism at Work: Introduction
Authors: Freeman, Richard B.; Blasi, Joseph; Kruse, Douglas
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Publication Year: 2008
Almost half of American private-sector employees participate in shared capitalism -- employment relations where the pay or wealth of workers is directly tied to workplace or firm performance.
Complementarity of Shared Compensation and Decision-Making Systems: Evidence from the American Labor Market
Authors: Dube, Arindrajit; Freeman, Richard B.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
In the 1990s an increasing proportion of US firms moved toward compensation systems that made part of pay depend on the economic performance of work-groups or the firm.
The Ownership Edge
Authors: Rosen, Corey; Rodgers, Loren
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
At this point, a lot of people are excited and ready to go. But others are skeptical that this is all worthwhile. How do we know this really works? True, ask just about any manager whether it would be a good thing if employees would think and act like owners and they will, of course, say yes. But just what do the cold, hard facts tell us about ownership management?
A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-term Success of Your Business
Authors: Stack, Jack; Burlingham, Bo
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Doubleday Business
Publication Year: 2003
The strategy outlined by the authors hinges largely on opening up the books to all employees and keeping the staff posted on financial matters.
Third-Sector Development: Making Up for the Market
Author: Gunn, Christopher
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Cornell University, ILR Press
Publication Year: 2004
Nonprofit corporations, cooperatives, and credit unions constitute an alternative avenue of hope and action for communities that have come up short in the normal operation of the market economy. These organizations comprise the third sector, which accounts for approximately 10 percent of U.S. economic activity.
Employee Financial Participation: An International Survey
Author: Binns, David M.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: George Mason University John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy
Publication Year: 2008
Employee Financial Participation: An International Survey provides an overview of key international trends in employee ownership, pension reform, equity compensation, privatization, and employee financial participation in over 30 countries.
Incentive Compensation and Employee Ownership
Author: Rodrick, Scott
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2002
This book takes a broad look at how to use incentives, ranging from stock options to cash bonuses to gainsharing, to motivate and reward employees in dynamic companies that seek to create a more productive "ownership" culture.
Identifying Good ESOP Candidates
Author: Cook, Larry R.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Financial Valuation of Employee Stock Ownership Plan Shares
Publication Year: 2005
The current demographic data about business owners support the expectation that many owners will be transitioning out of their companies. For many of these owners, an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) may be an important aspect of the appropriate exit strategy.
The Real World of Employee Ownership
Authors: Logue, John; Yates, Jacquelyn
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Using data from an extensive study of employee-owned companies in Ohio, where employee ownership is a well-developed trend, this book offers a strong empirical portrait of firms with Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs).
The Impact of Employee Involvement and Group Incentives on Performance in UK High Technology Establishments
Author: Sesil, James
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers; Books / Book Chapters
Source: Center for HR Strategy, Rutgers University
Publication Year: 1999
There is increasing recognition that the way in which the employment relationship is structured has an impact on the success of an enterprise.
Employee Ownership and Corporate Performance: A Review of Research on U.S. Companies
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
This issue brief summarizes studies on the relationship between employee ownership, employee participation, and corporate performance that have been performed in the last few decades.
Open-book Management: The Coming Business Revolution
Author: Case, John
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Collins Business
Publication Year: 1996
Open-book management is not so much a technique as a way of thinking, a process that actively involves employees in the financial life of the company.
Financial Valuation of Employee Stock Ownership Plan Shares
Author: Cook, Larry R.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wiley
Publication Year: 2005
It is estimated that more than 20 million employees currently hold stock in their companies through a variety of benefit options, including employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), broadly granted stock options, or 401(k) plans with heavy concentrations of employer stock.
The World's Work Vol. XXVIII
Author: Rankin, Janet Ruth
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Doubleday, Page & Company
Publication Year: 1914
Mr. William Cooper Procter's successful plan under which hundreds of employees that make less than $1500 a year in wages have acquired stock that is worth thousands of dollars.
The New Owners: The Mass Emergence of Employee Ownership in Public Companies and What It Means to American Business
Authors: Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harpercollins
Publication Year: 1992
Employees, always considered important stakeholders in American corporations, are today emerging as a key shareholder group.
Ownership Management: Building a Culture of Lasting Innovation
Authors: Rosen, Corey; Carberry, Edward J.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2002
This book draws on the National Center for Employee Ownership's over 20 years of experience in the field, and, more importantly, the experience of the leading employee ownership companies.
A Direct Stake in Economic Life: Worker-Owned Firms
Author: Alperovitz, Gar
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Books / Book Chapters
Source: Vermont Commons, adapted from America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy (John Wiley and Sons Publishers, 2005)
Publication Year: 2006
That individuals work harder, better and with greater enthusiasm when they have a direct interest in the outcome is self-evident to most people. The obvious question is: Why aren’t large numbers of businesses organized on this principle? The answer is: In fact, thousands and thousands of them are.
Democratic Capitalism: The Way to a World of Peace and Plenty
Author: Carey, Ray
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: AuthorHouse
Publication Year: 2004
Ray Carey presents the theory and practice of democratic capitalism by coupling his experience with a synthesis of the thought of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill.
The Great Game of Business
Authors: Stack, Jack; Burlingham, Bo
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Broadway Business
Publication Year: 1994
This book that has, since 1992, become the primer for open-book management, a new method based on the concept of democracy, the spirit of sports, and the reality of numbers.
Employee Ownership and Unions: Lessons from the Airline Industry
Author: Hansmann, Henry
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Chapter 24, Employee Representation in the Emerging Workplace, Kluwer Law International
Publication Year: 1999
The U.S. airline industry has, in recent years, offered some conspicuous examples of a phenomenon that has now become familiar, both in the U.S. and abroad, among firms that face economic difficulties: the granting to employees of a substantial ownership stake in return for wage and work rule concessions necessary to maintain the firm’s viability.
Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Blair, Margaret M.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Brookings Institution Press
Publication Year: 1995
This book points to the need for flexibility to adapt to rapidly changing market conditions and cogently summarizes and evaluates the principal proposals for changes in corporate governance.
Employee Ownership: The New Source of Competitive Advantage
Authors: Beatty, Carol A.; Schachter, Harvey
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wiley
Publication Year: 2001
At a time when employers are searching for new and innovative ways to motivate and retain key talent, employee stock ownership plans are proving to be powerful retention and reward strategies that have a positive impact on profitability, revenue growth, and productivity.
Worker Participation: Lessons from the Workers Co-Ops of the Pacific Northwest
Author: Pencavel, John
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Publication Year: 2002
The purpose of this book is to consider some consequences of worker participation in production and to provide an accessible economics perspective on two groups of worker co-ops in the Pacific Northwest: the plywood co-ops and the forestry worker co-ops.
Cooperation Works!: How People Are Using Cooperative Action to Rebuild Commuities and Revitalize the Economy
Authors: Thompson, David J.; Nadeau, E. G.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Lone Oak Press
Publication Year: 1997
Fifty case studies of new types of cooperatives, from healthcare, camping gear, trailer courts, buffalo, hardware, housing, sports teams, credit, carpet, even manure and beyond highlight the almost limitless ways people are using cooperative action to rebuild community, revitalize their economies and secure their lives.
Understanding Employee Ownership
Authors: Rosen, Corey; Young, Karen M.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: ILR Press
Publication Year: 1991
Provides information on the basic mechanisms of employee ownership, how employee ownership can be a means to community economic development, and the growth of stock ownership plans abroad.
Governing the Firm: Workers' Control in Theory and Practice
Author: Dow, Gregory K.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2003
Many explanations for the rarity of workers' control have been offered, but there have been few attempts to assess these hypotheses in a systematic way. This book draws upon economic theory, statistical evidence, and case studies to frame an explanation.
Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report)
Authors: Whyte, Kathleen K.; Whyte, William F.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: ILR Press
Publication Year: 1991
This book gives a valuable insight into the history and formation of this unique undertaking as well as a wonderful portrait of the far-sighted Basque priest who master-minded the original project.
The Ownership of Enterprise
Author: Hansmann, Henry
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2000
Henry Hansmann explains why different industries and different national economies exhibit different patterns of ownership forms.
Strategic Management: A stakeholder approach
Author: Freeman, R. Edward
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2010
Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach was first published in 1984 as a part of the Pitman series in Business and Public Policy. Its publication proved to be a landmark moment in the development of stakeholder theory.
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