Employee-owned businesses have recently enjoyed a resurgence of interest as possible ‘alternatives' to the somewhat tarnished image of conventional investor-owned capitalist firms. Within the context of global economic crisis, such alternatives seem newly attractive. This is somewhat ironic...

Whether ‘employee ownership’ takes the form of worker cooperatives, co‐ownership or simply employee share ownership plans, there are normally high expectations that a range of positive outcomes will result. Yet many empirically based studies tend to find a much more complex picture. An...

There are many factors that determine the success of a manager in the exercise of their activity. There is agreement in considering that, among all of them, training and qualification have an outstanding influence. Also, manager’s intellectual capitalization can be carried out by different...