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Worker cooperatives—firms owned and governed by their workers—have experimented with organizational structure in aid of greater equality. Gender theorists and cooperativists have argued that bureaucracy produces inequality, but bureaucracy has also demonstrably reduced organizational...
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We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski … difference models we find that hypermarket stores with cooperative ownership grow sales significantly faster than GESPA stores … cooperatives. Finally, while cooperative members are better paid than their peers in comparable firms, individual-level data also …
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Using the NBER Shared Capitalism Database comprised of over 40,000 employee surveys from 14 firms, we investigate worker attitudes towards employee ownership, profit sharing, and variable pay. Specifically, our study uses detailed survey questions on preferences over profit sharing, forms of...
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.Findings – In this study, results indicate that business profitability (return on assets), productivity and equity capital …
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Thanks to algorithmic management, the digital platform sector does not require sophisticated governance structures and labour intensity tends to be higher than in traditional sectors. So, why aren’t usually digital labour platforms worker cooperatives? We develop a simple model to study...
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A fundamental question for economics is why large firms in market economies usually assign control rights to capital suppliers rather than labor suppliers. A diverse collection of answers can be found in the literature. But unfortunately little theoretical consensus has emerged, and few attempts...
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.This organizational model is of large cooperative companies that are networks of small cooperative self-governing teams, where these teams … are no large cooperatives.Cooperatives’ current business models and some new cooperative business models are described …
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Wirtschaftswissenschaften dominierende neoliberale Theorie der Firma diktatorische Unternehmensgovernance legitimiere. Im vorliegenden Beitrag … neoliberal theory, one which in turn that legitimizes dictatorial corporate governance. The following questions are dealt with in … constitution and to bring debates about employee participation, corporate governance as well as firm and democratic theory together. …
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