| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Series |
Advances in the economic analysis of participatory and labor-managed firms ; v. 8
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| Contents |
List of contributors. Foreword (D.C. Jones). Introduction (V. Perotin, A. Robinson). -- I. The survival of participatory firms. Does employee ownership enhance firm survival? (R. Park, D. Kruse, J. Sesil). Exclusion from employee ownership: Evidence from Estonian case studies (P. Kalmi). Early cooperative survival: The liability of adolescence (V. Perotin). Lessons from the history of democratic economic institutions: The case of the Southern U.S. (M. Klinedinst). -- II. Participation and firm performance. Motivating employee- owners in ESOP firms: Human resource policies and company performance (D. Kruse, et al.). The effects of profit sharing and employee share ownership on quits: Evidence from a panel of French firms. (F. Fakhfakh). Profit sharing, technical efficiency change and financial constraints (O.W. Maietta, V. Sena). -- III. Participation and the transition. Ownership and participation: A review of empirical evidence for transition economies (D.C. Jones). Privatization in Serbia: The difficult conversion of self-management into property rights (M. Uvalic) |
| Summary |
Contains a series of empirical and survey papers that investigate theoretical and contemporary issues facing participatory organizations. This volume explores the area of participatory and labor-managed firms' survival. It offers a number of approaches and insights into the performance effects of participatory firms. This latest volume of "Advances" contains a series of original and innovative empirical and survey papers that investigate theoretical and contemporary issues facing participatory organizations. The first four papers explore the growing area of participatory and labor-managed firms' survival. The second group of three papers offers a number of new approaches and insights into the performance effects of participatory firms, and the final group of papers provides a broad-ranging synthesis and assessment of the experience of employee ownership and participation in transition economies. Collectively, these nine papers truly constitute "Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms." |
| Subject |
Employee ownership.
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Management -- Employee participation.
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Success in business.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pérotin, Virginie A. (Virginie Aida)
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| ISBN |
1849502773 |
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9781849502771 |
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