Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms

Business, management, and economics scholars from Europe, Korea, and the US, offer nine essays on alternative types of business ownership and participatory managerial practices, focusing on cooperative and labor-managed organizations and employee participation in decision making and financial performance. They discuss the relationship among business cycles, alternative forms of ownership, and employee voice in manufacturing, industrial companies, performing arts companies, and banks, and specific aspects of these firms in terms of the relationship between ownership and innovation and how financial participation and group incentives affect employee attitudes and work effort, including organizational citizenship behavior and reduced shirking in the workplace.

• On the Entry of Employee-Owned Firms: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1870–1960. Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms. Copyright page. Foreword. List of Contributors. Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms. Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms. Editor’s Introduction. How to Start an Employee-owned Industrial Company and Survive for 35 Years. Organizational Structure and Performance in European Banks: A Reassessment. Formal Organizational Power and Innovation: From a Principal-Agent to an Institutionalist View. Low Investment in Contingent Workers and its Negative Impact on Society: The Case of South Korea. Anti-Shirking Effects of Group Incentives and Human-Capital-Enhancing HR Practices. Employee Ownership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: High Performance Ownership Systems and the Mediating Role of Psychological Ownership. Does Employee Ownership Affect Attitudes and Behaviors? The Role of Selection, Status, and Size of Stake. Motivations for Establishing Cooperative Companies in the Performing Arts: A European Perspective.