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To join or not to join? Factors influencing employee share plan membership in a multinational corporation

Alex Bryson,
Richard B. Freeman

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

ISBN: 978-0-85724-453-6, eISBN: 978-0-85724-454-3

ISSN: 0885-3339

Publication date: 25 November 2010

Abstract

Ownership of shares by employees in their own firm has grown substantially in the advanced world. In the past two decades, it increased in Britain (Pendleton, Whitfield, & Bryson, 2009), the United States (Kruse, Freeman, & Blasi, 2010), and in many EU countries (Pendleton, Poutsma, van Ommeren, & Brewster, 2005; European Federation of Employee Share Ownership, 2009). By 2004, one-fifth of British workplaces had share ownership plans covering one-third of private sector employees (Bryson & Freeman, 2010). In the United States in 2006, an estimated 18% of workers had shares in their own firm, some held through collective employee stock ownership plans, some bought through employee stock purchase plans that give employees a discount on shares, and some through their 401k retirement savings Plan money. In addition to owning shares, 9% of US employees had stock options with the firm. Taking account of the overlap, 24% had an ownership stake through shares or options (Kruse, Blasi, & Park, 2010, Table 1).

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Bryson, A. and Freeman, R.B. (2010), "To join or not to join? Factors influencing employee share plan membership in a multinational corporation", Eriksson, T. (Ed.) Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms (Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0885-3339(2010)0000011005

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