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One possible strategy for both succession and new business development is employee ownership.New business formation as an employee-owned firm or cooperative may have some advantagesover formation as a sole proprietorship or partnership: pooling financial resources, spreading riskand combining...
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We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group ofworker cooperatives. Eroski is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are twodistinct types of hypermarkets: (i) cooperatives with significant employee ownership andvoice; and (ii) GESPAs...
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Angesichts der erheblichen Transformationsanstrengungen, die die BaltischenRepubliken in den letzten Jahren zu bewältigen hatten, haben sich erheblicheVeränderungen auch auf dem Gebiet des Genossenschaftswesens ergeben.Wie in kaum einer anderen Region in Europa ist die Entwicklung der...
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Produktivgenossenschaften stehen seit vielen Jahren, genauer gesagt sogar schon seit Jahrhunderten, im Mittelpunkt einer mal mehr, mal weniger hitzigen Diskussion. Dies liegt nicht zuletzt an dem Umstand, dass sie einerseits auf Grund der ihnen immanenten demokratischen und egalitären Elemente...
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Aufgrund der nach wie vor äußerst unbefriedigenden Lage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt wird intensiv nach Lösungen gesucht, diese Situation zu verbessern. Dabei sind, nicht zuletzt aufgrund ihrer geschichtlichen Entstehung als Kinder der Not (Marburger Bank o. J.), auch die Genossenschaften in den...
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Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk theorem with repeated interactions which requires reasonably accurate public information...
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matched employer-worker panel data set from Italy, the market economy with the greatest incidence of worker-owned and worker …
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This paper introduces a two-stage union-oligopoly-council model of wage and employment determination wherein at the first stage wage is negotiated through collective bargaining and at the second stage employment in each firm is co-determined by the employer and its works council. We provide a...
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Partnerships are the prevalent organizational form in many industries. Most partnerships share profits equally among the partners. Following Kandel and Lazear (1992) it is often argued that "peer pressure'' mitigates the arising free-rider problem. This line of reasoning takes the equal sharing...
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