Purpose: Various theories predict that firm buyouts survive longer than newly created firms. The study aims to know whether it is the case for worker-owned firms (WOFs), i.e. firms owned and controlled mostly by their workers. Design/methodology/approach: The author conducted a comparative...

Purpose: The paper discusses the relationship between systemic inequity and wealth disparity and advocates for expanding employee share ownership as a strategy to address divides in income and wealth by race and gender. It targets diverse actors including policymakers, philanthropic leaders and...

Purpose: As a part of the authors’ continued efforts to understand the experience and trends related to small business cooperatives, the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) and the Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI) explored themes around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on worker...

Purpose: A small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects amongst those holding stock, or more general effects on sentiment, with individuals taking rising stock prices as an indicator of...

Purpose: This case study examines employee share ownership at Central States Manufacturing, where the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) shares stunning sums of wealth with employees. Central States designs its ESOP to allow participants to access a portion of their ownership wealth while...

Purpose: To gather data about how employee-owned companies performed during the COVID-19 pandemic and whether employee ownership was a competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach: Surveys of members of the National Center for Employee Ownership. Findings: Employee-owned companies were...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand how majority employee-owned firms responded to the pandemic compared to firms that were not majority employee-owned. The Employee Ownership Foundation partnered with Rutgers University and the SSRS survey firm to survey ESOP and non-ESOP firms...

Purpose: The paper aims to examine the effect of employees' perceived physical attractiveness on the extent to which their voices are “listened to” by management. Design/methodology/approach: Using an experimental research design, the paper estimates main effects of employee attractiveness...

Purpose: The purpose is to review the effects of employee participation (EP) in decision-making, ownership and profit on job quality, worker well-being and productivity, and derive policy recommendations from the findings. Design/methodology/approach: The authors summarise results of...