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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Employee ownership"”.
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Employee Ownership, Economic and Psychological Effects in Two Companies
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Employee Ownership and Moral Hazard: How Broad-Based Equity Sharing Can Lower Agency Costs and Reduce Inequality
… however, does not hold for all levels of employees. After tax incentives for employee ownership were introduced through the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, there has been little legislative support to encourage companies to implement broad-based equity sharing programs. …
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Dynamics of shared capitalism policies in a startup company by Joe C. Hsueh.
… or work group; compensation practices include employee ownership, stock options, and profit sharing. Empirical studies on whether employee ownership improves firm performance offer mixed results. Kaarsemaker (2006), in a 30-year review of the literature, documented that "two-thirds of 129 …
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The Impact of Unions on Information Asymmetry
… literature also finds a mitigating effect from employee ownership on the negative association between union power and voluntary disclosure. Using a sample of company observations for fiscal years 2008 through 2010, I examine the effect of company-specific measures of employee unionization on …
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Cultures of performance and reward in UK employee-owned businesses
Employee ownership has the potential to reduce the growing wage disparity experienced in recent years, however research into employee ownership is limited. The purpose of this thesis is to explore organisational culture within for-profit employee owned businesses (EOBs) in the UK. Specifically, it …
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Pensions, corporate finance, and public policy
… to explain why managers might encourage employees to hold company stock in their 401(k) plans. Since employees often vote for incumbent managers in proxy contests, managers may encourage them to hold stock as a defense against a change in corporate control. When a state's laws change to …
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Employee stock ownership: a microeconomic analaysis
The investigation of employee stock ownership is undertaken using microeconomic theory and the in-depth empirical analysis of two metropolitan newspapers with long histories of extensive employee ownership. Economic theory suggests that there are four important considerations beyond current tax …
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Hearing the Employee Owner's Voice: a critical appraisal of indirect mechanisms for hearing the employee owner's voice for the achievement of real involvement, in the growing sector of UK employee owned businesses
… thesis is concerned with the topic of effective employee voice within employee-owned businesses. This is considered within the context of the growing sector of employee-owned businesses within the UK, and a representation gap in the wider UK workforce caused in-part at least by a continued …
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Employee Engagement Through the Instructional Leadership Team
… an organizational structure designed to improve employee engagement, which for this project is defined as employee collaboration, autonomy, ownership and shared purpose, in the curriculum development process (Farris-Berg, 2013). This program evaluation, grounded in organizational theory, …
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THE EMERGENCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION IN THE CONTEMPORARY FIRM: AN INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF INEQUALITY
… paper focuses directly on the consequences of employee ownership by analyzing variation in patterns of access to, and wealth generated by, different types of broad-based stock compensation for different demographic groups. Taken together, the three papers constitute a general inquiry into the …
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Worker owned cooperatives and the ecosystems that support them
… and practice should emphasize wealth creation. Employee ownership, through worker cooperatives is one way to build wealth. But worker cooperatives are rare in the United States; this is because there is not a supportive cooperative ecosystem. The province of Quebec, Canada has developed a robust …
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Organizational Forms and Practices: Essays on Implications for Frontline Workers and Performance
… to uncover the process of constructing ownership culture in an employee-owned firm. I demonstrate how workers co-create their own control system, supported by a high financial value of ownership, strategic managerial communication, peer pressure, and performance management. This critical …
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Cooperatives as vehicles for community and economic development : a case for alternative ownership and expansion of the solidarity economy in Austin, Texas
… specifically explores alternative models of ownership for firms and housing as a strategy for community development, and further, as strategies that will maximize the benefits of the systems already in place. The overarching point, however, is that alterative models of ownership would lend …
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Developing a Framework for Performance Management at a Saudi Food Company
… the organisation’s aims and purposes, supporting employees in understanding how they contribute to the vision and purposes, and helping employees align their performance accordingly. This sequential mixed methods single case study was conducted at a large publicly traded agribusiness in Saudi …