Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work

Daphne Berry is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Hartford, USA. Her work focuses on employee ownership, inequality, and diversity in organizations. Her work has been published in outlets such as Gender, Work & Organization, the Journal of Managerial Psychology, and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. She is a recipient of Rutgers Research and J. Robert Beyster fellowships.Takao Kato is W.S. Schupf Professor in Economics and Far Eastern Studies at Colgate University. He is also a Research Fellow of IZA in Bonn; a Research Associate of CJEB at Columbia University; TCER in Tokyo; and CCP in Copenhagen; and Senior Fellow of ETLA in Helsinki. He holds the position of Faculty Fellow and Mentor of SMLR, Rutgers University.

Many from Mondragon University in Spain, economists present case studies of worker-owned and worker-run businesses to help others design empirical studies in the new economics of participation. Among them are inter-cooperation mechanisms in Mondragon: managing the crisis of Fagor Electrodomesticos, employment involvement under rising competition pressure: evidence from two manufacturing firms in Japan, limitations of business unionism and co-op conservatism: a case study of Denver's taxi drivers union-cooperatives, and Atlas Container Corporation: thinking outside the box.

• Foreword; Takao Kato Introduction; Daphne Berry and Takao Kato INTER-COOPERATION MECHANISMS IN MONDRAGON: MANAGING THE CRISIS OF FAGOR ELECTRODOMESTICOS; Saioa Arando Lasagabaster and Iñaki Arenaza Bengoa ULMA ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS: A case from the MONDRAGON cooperative group; Aitziber Arregi, Fred Freundlich and Mónica Gago Mid South Building and Supply: Surviving the Great Recession; Marc D. Street, Vera L. Street, Thomas J. Calo and Frank Shipper Employee Involvement under Rising Competitive Pressure: Evidence from Two Manufacturing Firms in Japan; Arghya Ghosh, Takao Kato and Hodaka Morita Limitations of Business Unionism and Coop Conservatism: A Case Study of Denver’s Taxi Driver Union-Cooperatives; Minsun Ji Structuring Firms to Benefit Low-Income Workers: An Employee Ownership Case Study; Janet Boguslaw and Sarah Taghvai-Soroui Board Structure at Carris Reels: A Participatory ESOP Company; Daphne Berry and David Fitz-Gerald Atlas Container Corporation: Thinking Outside the Box; Thomas J. Calo and Frank Shipper