Sharing ownership, profits, and decision-making in the 21st century / edited by Douglas Kruse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kruse, Douglas.

Series:

Advances in the economic analysis of participatory and labor-managed firms ; v. 14.

Advances in the economic analysis of participatory and labor-managed firms, 0885-3339 ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Employee participation.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ownership and decision-making are key issues in the economic restructuring taking place as economies struggle to emerge from the Great Recession, and technological change and globalization continue to place new demands on workers and firms. Corporate, labor, and policy leaders are increasingly recognizing the potential role of employee ownership, cooperatives, profit sharing, and other ways in which employees directly participate in decision-making and financial performance. This volume contains cutting-edge research on the causes and effects of financial and decision-making participation, including results from the United States, European Union, Russia, India, and Basque area of Spain, along with a unique laboratory experiment to probe the real-world findings. Along with consideration of standard economic outcomes are studies that examine job satisfaction in the largest U.S. worker cooperative, and firm survival among cooperatives and ESOP companies. In addition, there are theoretical and thought pieces on the meaning and value of employee ownership in a rapidly changing world economy.

Contents:

Effects of cooperative membership and participation in decision making on job satisfaction of home health aides / Daphne P. Berry

Can group-incentives without participation survive the free-rider problem? A view from the lab / Philip Mellizo

Information technology and high performance workplace practices : evidence on their incidence from upstate New York establishments / Derek C. Jones, Jeffrey Pliskin

The relative survival of worker cooperatives and barriers to their creation / Erik K. Olsen

Firm survival and performance in privately held ESOP companies / Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, Dan Weltmann

What does Mondragon teach us about workplace democracy? / Tom Malleson

Employee ownership in Russia : evolution and current status / Tatiana Kachalina (Ershova)

Determinants of financial participation in the EU : employers' and employees' perspectives / Iraj Hashi, Alban Hashani

Financial and decision-making participation of marginalized small farmers through the Pragathi Bandhu model in India / Sudha Kornginnaya

Democratic differences : how type of ownership affects workplace democracy and its broader social effects / Mark J. Kaswan

The labor managed firm : a theoretical model explaining emergence and behavior / Anthony Jensen

Three themes about democratic enterprises : capital structure, education, and spin-offs / David Ellerman

Political metaphors and workplace governance / Christopher Mackin

Worker ownership and collaborative production / Charles Heckscher

Destructive trade and workers self-defense through economic democracy : a research note / Jaroslav Vanek.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781781907511

178190751X

OCLC:

868234458