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Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States
Authors: Ogura, Seiritsu; Tachibanaki, Toshiaki; Wise, David A.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2003
This paper presents finding from our most recent research on the transformation of participatory employment practices of Japanese firms in the 1990s, during which the Japanese economy slowed down considerably. The operation appears to be of particular public policy interest for many countries considering participatory employment practices as a way to improve their productivity performance and thus competitiveness.
Productivity in Cooperatives and Worker-owned Enterprises: Ownership and Participation Make a Difference!
Authors: Logue, John; Yates, Jacquelyn
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Prepared for Employment Sector, International Labour Office, Geneva
Publication Year: 2005
The survival rate of worker cooperatives and employee-owned firms in market economics appears to equal or surpass that of conventional firms. But they typically return a different combination of economic benefits to their member-owners than do conventional firms...
Continuity and Change over 25 Years of Ohio ESOP Companies: Examining the Much Discussed but Little Studied Mysterious Life Cycle of Employee-Owned Companies
Authors: Logue, John; Yates, Jacquelyn
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Prepared for the Beyster Symposium
Publication Year: 2009
Paper explores what drives changes in employee-owned companies. How does law affect them? Is there a “natural” development process among ESOP companies apart from change driven by changes in law?
ESOP Basics: What is an ESOP?
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University
Publication Year: 2009
What is an ESOP? Employee Stock Ownership Plans, or ESOPs, were designed as a way to put ownership into the hands of American workers.
ESOP Basics: Creating an Ownership Culture
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University
Publication Year: 2009
Sharing ownership with employees offers the opportunity to involve the workforce in the business with the same sense of responsibility that an owner has.
ESOP Basics: When Employee Ownership Makes Sense
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University
Publication Year: 2009
The number of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) in the United States has increased from approximately 200 employing 250,000 workers in 1974 to over 11,000 established ESOPs in 2005 covering an estimated 11 million employees.
Good Business
Author: Burns, Patrick
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Job Ownership Limited
Publication Year: 2006
Based on a survey of co-owned businesses, this report reveals how these businesses view the advantages and disadvantages of employee ownership; the key problems they face and what would help resolve them; main sources of advice and information; and how customers react to co-ownership.
Caring and sharing: the co-owned route to better care
Author: Wheatcroft, Dave
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2007
Launched at a reception at Newcastle's Centre for Life, this EOA paper by Dave Wheatcroft is the story of award winning employee owned Sunderland Home Care Associates and how founder Margaret Elliott and co-owners have built a family of enterprises lifting care standards in the North of England.
Making Employee Ownership Work
Author: Silcox, Sarah
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Cases
Source: The Employee Ownership Association, Baxi Partnership Ltd.
Publication Year: 2009
'Making employee ownership work’ is a new guide from the Employee Ownership Association and co-ownership advisers the Baxi Partnership, based on a survey of 25 EOA member companies including John Lewis, Unipart, Arup and Mott MacDonald.
Employee Financial Participation in the New Member States
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Publication Year: 2007
This report looks at the current situation in relation to employee financial participation (EFP) and its recent developments in the new Member States (NMS) of the EU: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Profit Sharing, Employee Share Ownership and Gainsharing: What can they Achieve?
Author: Cahill, Noel
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The National Economic and Social Council
Publication Year: 2000
In the new national agreement, the Programme for Prosperity and Fairness (PPF), the social partners express their interest in encouraging the more widespread adoption of profit sharing, employee share ownership and gainsharing. This paper provides a review of the potential of these forms of employee participation.
The Roots of Broadened Stock Ownership
Author: Saxton, Jim
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: United States Congress
Publication Year: 2000
This analysis examines recent trends in stock ownership and explains the reasons for the dramatic increase in stock ownership among a broader and increasingly diverse number of Americans.
Should Charities Ask for Time Before Money?
Authors: Aaker, Jennifer L.; Liu, Wendy
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Asking would-be donors for their time, not their money, is a better way for charities to increase donations, says Professor Jennifer Aaker. Asking donors first to volunteer their time can positively shift their willingness to give both time and money.
Converting Failed Financial Institutions into Mutual Organisations
Authors: Michie, Jonathan; Llewellyn, David T.; Anderson, David; Eyre, Nick; Hunt, Peter; Mills, Chris; Palmer, Jeremy
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Publication Year: 2009
The immediate issue is whether the failed financial institutions that were taken into public ownership could be re-launched as mutuals rather than as plcs.
Reinventing the Firm
Author: Davies, William
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Demos
Publication Year: 2009
Presenting a wide range of quantitative data alongside three new case studies of employee-owned firms, this pamphlet offers a new vision of economic autonomy where democratic companies drive a happier and more sustainable economy.
Evaluation of Tax-Advantaged All-Employee Share Schemes - Save As You Earn (SAYE) and Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
Authors: Kerr, Jane; Tait, Clare
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: HMRC
Publication Year: 2008
The aim of the study was to provide survey evidence on the Share Incentive Plan (SIP) and Save As You Earn (SAYE) scheme as part of the long-term evaluation of these schemes.
Tax-advantaged employee share schemes: analysis of productivity effect
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: HM Revenue & Customs
Publication Year: 2007
Oxera was commissioned by HM Revenue & Customs (formerly the Inland Revenue) to examine the impact of tax-advantaged share schemes on UK company performance (whereby companies reward their employees by granting them shares, or share options, as part of their remuneration package).
Give Everyone a Prize? Employee Stock Options in Private Venture-backed Firms
Author: Hand, John R. M.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2005
This study investigates the impacts on the equity values of private venture-backed firms of the organizational depth to which they grant employee stock options.
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Promoting Employee Ownership at the Subnational Level
Author: Logue, John
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Capital Ownership Group and Ohio Employee Ownership Center
Publication Year: 2001
There are at least six reasons why we should be concerned with encouraging employee ownership at thesubnational level: at the level of the state, the province, the region, the municipality, or other subnationalgovernmental units or at the level of the industrial branch, cutting across governmental geographic units.
Ohio’s Employee-Owned Network: Helping Employee-Owned Companies to Help Themselves?
Author: Yates, Jacquelyn
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University
Publication Year: 2004
Can a support organization enhance the development and performance of an employee-owned sector in a market economy? That is the question this paper will address.
ESOP Termination: Phase 1
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
This report describes the results of the first phase of a research project on the reasons companies terminate employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). It summarizes interviews with company leaders at former ESOP companies and suggests directions for the quantitative research planned for phase 2 of this project.
Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource Policies and Company Performance
Authors: Kruse, Douglas; Freeman, Richard B.; Blasi, Joseph; Buchele, Robert; Scharf, Adria; Rodgers, Loren; Mackin, Christopher
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Industrial Relations Research Association
Publication Year: 2003
The growth of ESOPs over the past 25 years is part of a general growth in compensation arrangements linking worker pay to company performance, including profit sharing, gain-sharing, and broad-based stock options in addition to the various methods of employee ownership.
Broad-Based Employee Incentive Arrangements
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: SJF Advisory Services
Publication Year: 2008
This article provides descriptions of various broad-based employee incentive arrangements.
ESOP Strength in Minnesota
Authors: Medgaarden, Nicole; Roback, Thomas, Jr.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Blue Ridge ESOP Associates
Publication Year: 2006
Why ESOPs work well for Minnesota companies. The state of Minnesota claims more ESOPs per capita than any other state.
A Statistical Profile of Employee Ownership
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2009
Estimated Number of Plans and Employees; Value of Plan Assets.
Research Evidence on Prevalence and Effects of Employee Ownership
Author: Kruse, Douglas
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Rutgers University
Publication Year: 2002
The idea of employee ownership has attracted support across the political spectrum, often being seen as a form of economic democracy that complements our political democracy. Along with these positive views, however, there have been many concerns expressed about employee ownership particularly that it can expose workers to excessive risk and may in some cases increase labor management conflict and lower economic performance.
Employee Share Ownership Schemes: Two Case Studies
Authors: Barnes, Andrew; Josev, Tanya; Lenne, Jarrod; Marshall, Shelley; Mitchell, Richard; Ramsay, Ian; Rider, Cameron
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Cases
Source: The University of Melbourne
Publication Year: 2006
This study seeks to open up an examination of the reasons for implementing an ESO scheme at the enterprise level in Australia, through two interview-based case studies conducted at National Australia Bank Ltd and Palm Springs Ltd.
Why Do Employees Participate in Employee Share Plans?: A Conceptual Framework
Authors: Brown, Michelle; Landau, Ingrid; Mitchell, Richard; O'Connell, Ann; Ramsay, Ian
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The University of Melbourne
Publication Year: 2008
The project subjects the existing regulatory regime for employee share ownership plans in Australia – in tax, corporate and labour law – to technical and empirical scrutiny. This paper reviews existing studies and presents a conceptual framework to explain why employees participate in ESOPs.
Employee Share Ownership in Unlisted Entities: Objectives, Current Practices and Regulatory Reform
Author: O'Connell, Ann
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The University of Melbourne
Publication Year: 2008
The project subjects the existing regulatory regime for employee share ownership plans in Australia – in tax, corporate and labour law – to technical and empirical scrutiny. This report considers the objectives and current practice in this area and notes that employee ownership levels tend to be lower for unlisted entities than for listed entities. It also examines the regulatory obstacles to such ownership and makes recommendations for reform to facilitate employee ownership in this area.
Broad-Based Employee Share Ownership in Australian Listed Companies: Survey Report
Authors: Landau, Ingrid; Mitchell, Richard; O'Connell, Ann; Ramsay, Ian; Marshall, Shelley
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The University of Melbourne
Publication Year: 2009
The project subjects the existing regulatory regime for employee share ownership plans in Australia – in tax, corporate and labour law – to technical and empirical scrutiny. This research report presents findings from a survey of employee share ownership practice in ASXlisted companies.
Employee Share Ownership in Australia: Aligning Interests
Author: TNS Social Research
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Publication Year: 2009
Employee share ownership (ESO) is a human resource or workplace relations strategy that can be used to motivate employees by giving them a stake/share in the company’s success. In 2000, the Nelson Report (Shared Endeavors: An Inquiry into Employee Share Ownership in Australia) highlighted the lack of comprehensive information on the nature, number and extent of ESO plans in Australia. Furthermore, the Nelson Report recommended that the government should investigate the take-up of ESO in Australia and explore the barriers that prevent businesses from setting up ESO plans.
Stakeholder Engagement: A Road Map to Meaningful Engagement
Author: Jeffery, Neil
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management
Publication Year: 2009
This guide is designed to provide strategic advice to senior executives who shape and lead institutional policy towards stakeholders, and practical guidance and case studies to operational managers who engage regularly with stakeholders. Reading this guide will help you to be better able to establish conditions for meaningful engagement by more effectively recognizing, analyzing and utilizing opportunities and challenges to building relations; and through exploring issues above and beyond the simple identification of stakeholders and immediate 'unprepared' initiation of conversations. It seeks to reflect the reality of managers' 'on the ground' experience, by drawing on lessons learned from past incidents, highlighted by practical examples.
The Twin Pillars of Sustainable Energy
Authors: Prindle, Bill; Eldridge, Maggie; Eckhardt, Mike; Frederick, Alyssa
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: American Council for and Energy-Efficient Economy
Publication Year: 2007
This project, supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, was commissioned to better define the most promising synergies between energy efficiency and renewable energy, from both a technical and a policy viewpoint, and to recommend some next steps toward a more coordinated set of policies and programs to increase the joint contributions of efficiency and renewables to a sustainable energy future.
A Three-Pronged Approach to Corporate Climate Strategy
Author: Business for Social Responsibility
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Business for Social Responsibility
Publication Year: 2006
The key for corporations is to make plans now that will help them prosper in such an uncertain future. Until now it has been easier to turn a blind eye to impending challenges. But now the only option is to tackle them head on.
Energy End-Use Efficiency
Author: Lovins, Amory B.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Rocky Mountain Institute
Publication Year: 2005
Technologically providing more desired service per unit of delivered energy consumed is generally the largest, least expensive, most benign, most quickly deployable, least visible, least understood, and most neglected way to provide energy services.
Efficiency
Author: Joint Economic Committee
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Speeches
Source: Joint Economic Committee
Publication Year: 2008
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) held a hearing to examine how energy efficiency programs can drastically reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy, help us achieve energy independence, and strengthen our economy.
Energy Efficiency, Innovation, and Job Creation in California
Author: Roland-Holst, David
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: University of California Berkeley
Publication Year: 2008
This study examines the economy-wide employment effects of California’s landmark efficiency policies over the last thirty-five years. Energy efficiency measures have, enabled California households to redirect their expenditures toward other goods and services, creating about 1.5 million jobs.
Transforming the Market
Author: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2009
The project took a bottom-up, market-driven approach to understanding the barriers to lower energy use, based on the most detailed view ever of the current state of energy demand in buildings. Using computer simulations, researchers were able to show the market response to various combinations of financial, technical, behavioral and policy options, identifying the optimum mix to achieve transformation for each market studied.
Efficiency and Innovation In U.S. Manufacturing Energy Use
Author: National Association of Manufacturers
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: National Association of Manufacturers
Publication Year: 2005
In 2003, the industrial sector was responsible for 33% of the nation's total energy use; opportunities abound for increasing industrial energy efficiency. U.S. manufacturers have introduced a variety of innovative technologies, new business processes and enlightened management techniques to encourage greater efficiency in the industrial use of energy. This report features 17 case studies, including one featuring Frito-Lay, whose energy efficiency upgrades are returning 30% on investment annually.
Clean Cities Fleet Experiences
Author: NREL
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: U.S. Department of Energy
Publication Year: 2009
The hybrid taxis are able to achieve about twice the gas mileage of a conventional taxi while helping cut gasoline use and fuel costs. Tax credits and other incentives are helping both company owners and drivers make the switch to hybrids.
How the World Should Invest in Energy Efficiency
Authors: Farrell, Diana; Remes, Jaana K.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: McKinsey & Company
Publication Year: 2008
A program that targets cost-effective opportunities in energy productivity could halve the growth in energy demand, cut emissions of greenhouse gases, and generate attractive returns.
Energy Efficiency and the Rebound Effect
Author: Gottron, Frank
Product Type: Web Sites; Policy and Issue Reports
Source: National Council for Science and the Environment
Publication Year: 2001
Paradoxically, economic theory suggests that this decrease in demand and subsequent decrease in cost of using the resource could cause a rebound in demand. A commonly cited example is an increase in the efficiency of home air conditioning which may reduce the resident’s monetary incentive to conserve.
Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Authors: Sisson, Bill; Van Aerschot, Constant
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2008
Key players in real estate and construction misjudge the costs and benefits of "green" buildings, creating a major barrier to more energy efficiency in the building sector.
Energy Efficiency and Resource Standards
Author: Nadal, Steven
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: ACEEE
Publication Year: 2006
An Energy Efficiency Resource Standard (EERS) is a simple, market-based mechanism to encourage more efficient generation, transmission, and use of electricity and natural gas.
Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China
Authors: Bradley, Richard; Yang, Ming
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: IEA
Publication Year: 2006
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate, with the experience of OECD, how China can go forward with concrete activities and actions to improve energy efficiency. With a quantitative case study using standby power as an example, we show how China (and Shanghai) will save electricity and capital investment in the power sector.
Barriers To Technology Diffusion
Authors: Lefèvre, Nicolas; de T'Serclaes, Philippine; Waide, Paul
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: OECD/IEA
Publication Year: 2006
Artificial light production accounts for 8.9% of total global primary consumption and represents approximately 8% of world CO2 emissions. Improving the efficacy of lighting systems can therefore be an important means to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Assessing Measures of Energy Efficiency Performance and Their Application in Industry
Author: Tanaka, Kanako
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: OECD/IEA
Publication Year: 2008
The paper considers the importance of so-called boundary definitions when measuring energy performance, and how these affect the appropriateness of country comparisons to guide policy decisions. The use of energy data without detailed documentation of assumption and boundary definitions should be limited to the analysis of individual production units, and not for comparison beyond its boundary. International comparison requires more carefully considered data. When addressing the complex engineering and economic factors that influence energy use in a country, consistent and systematic methodology is essential.
The Energy-Efficiency Gap
Authors: Jaffe, Adam; Stavins, Robert
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd.
Publication Year: 1994
Our purpose in this paper is to identify the major conceptual issues that surround different approaches to defining an optimal energy use scenario, and to explore the relationship between alternative notions of optimality and concepts that are widely used in discussions about the energy-efficiency gap. In this way, we implicitly consider the appropriate definition of the energy-efficiency gap itself
Big Tobacco’s Attempts to Derail the Global Tobacco Treaty
Author: Corporate Accountability International
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: StopCorporateAbuse
Publication Year: 2005
The report discusses the current status of the global tobacco treaty (WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) and the tobacco industry's recent attempts to undermine the treaty process. It provides a first look at the positive impacts of the treaty and the new ways Big Tobacco is trying to derail the treaty in the eleventh hour. The report names corporations like Philip Morris (now Altria), British American Tobacco (BAT), and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) among the corporations seeking to undermine the treaty.
Tobacco Industry Interference & Implementation of FCTC Article 5.3
Author: Corporate Accountability International
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: StopCorporateAbuse
Publication Year: 2007
The purpose of this document is to expose tobacco industry interference in countries that have ratified the FCTC, to highlight measures currently being taken to prevent this interference, and to call for coordinated action by Parties to safeguard treaty implementation against commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry.
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