Employee Ownership

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CLEO Curriculum Library on Employee Ownership at Aspen Institute's Caseplace.org

Fellowship Portal Pre-published information resource for researchers and educators interested in EO, profit sharing, and broad-based stock options.

• Videos – interviews and discussions about employee ownership
  
  

  MIT Enterprise Forum Panel Discussion - Re-Envisioning the Company: Shared Capitalism through Employee Ownership.

  Moderator: David Binns, FED Trustee
  Panelists (Beyster Fellowship faculty): Art Boni (CMU), Joseph Blasi (Rutgers); Tony Matthews (Rady School/UCSD)

  Beginnings of Employee Ownership in the U.S	Type of Companies that are Employee-Owned	Ownership Paradigm in High-Technology Companies
  Founders Creating Wealth by Sharing Ownership	Major Research Study on What Works and What Doesn't	Raising Capital While Maintaining Ownership
  Getting the Culture Right	Common Regrets with ESOPs	Majority Ownership Through ESOPs

  Interviews – Fellows and Researchers talk about their research

  Use of Mondragon Co-operative Model to Create Economic and Social Good Bonnie Richley	New Partnerships Through Employee Ownership Chris Mackin	Jobs, Worker Democracy and Participation, and Employee Ownership Doug Kruse
  Distributed Leadership with Motivated Employees Elaine Backman	Role of Majority EO Enterprises on Durable Economic Growth Erik Olsen	Ownership, Union relations, and Level of Information Disclosure Francesco Bova
  Innovation, Engagement, and Ownership Frank Shipper	Tending Your Capital: Employee Ownership, Participation and Personal Growth Jackie Yates	Workplace Democracy and Participation Jeffery Moriarty
  Stakeholder Alignment by Sharing Wealth with Those Who Create It Joe Cabral	Employee Ownership as Part of a Large System Joe Hsueh	ESOPs, Bipartisan Support, and Education John Menke
  Role of Employee Ownership in a Innovative, Democratic, and Capitalist Society Joseph Blasi	Perspectives on Employee Ownership Justin Goldbach	EO Role in Firms with Higher Collaboration, Trust, Empowerment, Accountability Hiram Samel
  Worker Ownership and Democratic Practices Mark Kaswan	Symposium Exploration of Diverse Aspects of Employee Ownership Mary Ann Beyster	Employee Ownership for Start-ups Moses Lee
  Social Justice by Owning Means of Production Peter Thompson	Role of Employee Ownership in a Sustainable Economy Phillip Mellizo	Stability and Performance Impacts from Employee Ownership Steven Freeman
  Teams with Rewards in Retail Sector Tricia Mctague	Impacts of Self-Managed Teams and Employee Ownership Vernon Woodley	Fostering Democracy by Sharing Wealth Yuan Jiang

  

  Business News Network – Employee Ownership

  Pros & Cons – featuring Levi Sampson, president, Harmac Pulp Mill; Joseph Blasi, professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University; Michael Keeling, President Employee Share Ownership Program Association

  
  

• Proceedings of the Beyster Fellowship Symposium
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Open Systems: Applying Diverse Ownership Theories to Address Today’s Complex Changes
  2011 Symposium

  
  
  

  

  Re-Capitalizing the Economy: Envisioning the Role of Broad Employee Ownership
  2010 Symposium

  
  
  

  

  Shared Capitalism - Setting a Scholarly Agenda
  2009 Symposium

  
  

• Books – find books about employee ownership
  
  
  

  The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company

  Dr. J. Robert Beyster with Peter Economy
  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  Copyright 2007

  
  

  

  Shared Capitalism at Work:Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-Based Stock Options

  Edited by Douglas L. Kruse, Richard B. Freeman and Joseph R. Blasi
  National Bureau of Economic Research
  Copyright 2010

  
  

  

  In the Company of Owners: The Truth about Stock Options (and Why Every Employee Should Have Them)

  Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, and Aaron Bernstein

  
  

  Additional Resources

  	The Beyster Institute Bookstore
  	National Center for Employee Ownership publications

• Articles — read about research studies on employee ownership
  
  
  

  • State of the Economy Will Compel Business Leaders to Take a Closer Look at Employee Owners read
  • Creating a Dialogue about Ownership through Top Business Educators (PDF, 28 KB) read
  • Management: Employee ownership improves business performance – SDNN read

  
  

  

  • More Than Half of Best Companies to Work for Have Broad-Based Employee Ownership read
  • Broad-based Employee Stock Options in the U.S.: Company Performance and Characteristics
    James C. Sesil, City University of Hong Kong; Maya K. Kroumova, New York Institute of Technology; Douglas L. Kruse, Rutgers University; Joseph Blasi, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations Social Science Research Network read
  • Broad-based Employee Stock Options in US 'New Economy' Firms
    James C. Sesil, City University of Hong Kong; Maya K. Kroumova, New York Institute of Technology; Douglas L. Kruse, Rutgers University; Joseph Blasi, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations Social Science Research Network read
  • Research on Employee Ownership, Corporate Performance, and Employee Compensation NCEO read

  
  

  

  • Case study on Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, Inc. (HCSS) who designs and sells hi-tech software to the heavy/highway construction industry read
  • Case Study on KCI, a multi-disciplined engineering firm. read

  
  

• Podcast – Audio interview of Mary Ann Beyster about employee involvement and launch of CLEO
  
  

  Management Issues, The Working Week 78 –November 18, 2008 (13 mins) Play it

  "The Working Week" is a weekly digest of news, blogs, and opinion from the pages of www.management– issues.com. Each week, host Wayne Turmel leads a discussion on matters important to business, management development and human resources.

• Organizational Resources – for entrepreneurs interested in employee ownership
  
  

  Sample of Nationally recognized organizations involved with providing consulting, training, and education in entrepreneurship for small businesses.