Prelims
Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies
ISBN: 978-1-78714-520-7, eISBN: 978-1-78714-519-1
ISSN: 0885-3339
Publication date: 8 May 2018
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(2018), "Prelims", Berry, D. and Kato, T. (Ed.) Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies (Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, Vol. 18), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0885-333920180000018011
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Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies
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Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms
Series Editor: Takao Kato
Recent Volumes:
| Volume 8: | Employee Participation, Firm Performance and Survival – Edited by V. Perotin and A. Robinson |
| Volume 9: | Participation in the Age of Globalization and Information – Edited by Panu Kalmi and Mark Klinedinst |
| Volume 10: | Cooperative Firms in Global Markets: Incidence, Viability and Economic Performance – Edited by Sonja Novkovic and Vania Sena |
| Volume 11: | Edited by Tor Eriksson |
| Volume 12: | Edited by Jed Devaro |
| Volume 13: | Edited by Alex Bryson |
| Volume 14: | Sharing Ownership, Profits and Decision-Making in the 21st Century – Edited by Douglas Kruse |
| Volume 15: | International Perspectives on Participation – Edited by Jaime Ortega |
| Volume 16: | Edited by Antti Kauhanen |
| Volume 17: | Sharing in the Company: Determinants, Processes and Outcomes of Employee Participation – Edited by Erik Poutsma and Paul E. M. Ligthart |
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Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms Volume 18
Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies
Edited By
Daphne Berry
University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, USA
Takao Kato
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA
United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China
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Contents
| List of Contributors | vii |
| Foreword | |
| Takao Kato | ix |
| Introduction | |
| Daphne Berry and Takao Kato | 1 |
| Inter-Cooperation Mechanisms in Mondragon: Managing the Crisis of Fagor ElectrodomÉsticos | |
| Saioa Arando and Iñaki Arenaza Bengoa | 7 |
| ULMA Architectural Solutions: A Case from the Mondragon Cooperative Group | |
| Aitziber Arregi Uzuriaga, Fred Freundlich and Monica Gago | 37 |
| Mid South Building and Supply: Surviving the Great Recession | |
| Marc D. Street, Vera L. Street, Thomas J. Calo and Frank Shipper | 77 |
| Employee Involvement Under Rising Competitive Pressure: Evidence from Two Manufacturing Firms in Japan | |
| Arghya Ghosh, Takao Kato and Hodaka Morita | 105 |
| Limitations of Business Unionism and Co-Op Conservatism: A Case Study of Denver’S Taxi Driver Union-Cooperatives | |
| Minsun Ji | 121 |
| Structuring Firms to Benefit Low-Income Workers: An Employee Ownership Case Study | |
| Janet Boguslaw and Sarah Taghvai-Soroui | 153 |
| Board Structure at Carris Reels: A Participatory ESOP Company | |
| Daphne Berry and David Fitz-Gerald | 179 |
| Atlas Container Corporation: Thinking Outside the Box | |
| Thomas J. Calo and Frank Shipper | 193 |
| Index | 221 |
List of Contributors
| Saioa Arando | Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain |
| Iñaki Arenaza Bengoa | Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain |
| Aitziber Arregi Uzuriaga | Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain |
| Daphne Berry | University of Hartford, New York, USA |
| Janet Boguslaw | Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA |
| Thomas J. Calo | Salisbury University, Maryland, USA |
| David Fitz-Gerald | Carris Reels Inc., Vermont, USA |
| Fred Freundlich | Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain |
| Monica Gago | Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain |
| Arghya Ghosh | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Minsun Ji | University of Colorado Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Takao Kato | Colgate University, Connecticut, USA |
| Hodaka Morita | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Frank Shipper | Salisbury University, Maryland, USA |
| Marc D. Street | Salisbury University, Maryland, USA |
| Vera L. Street | Salisbury University, Maryland, USA |
| Sarah Taghvai-Soroui | Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA |
Foreword
The series Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms was launched three decades ago by Derek C. Jones and Jan Svejnar. Since then, Advances has been a leading forum for high-quality original theoretical and empirical research in the broad area of participatory and labor-managed organizations.
It is my great pleasure to present Volume 18 of Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms. Advances has been making frequent use of guest editors. This volume is also ably edited by Daphne Berry (jointly with me). Being a book series, Advances has an advantage over regular scholarly journals in terms of the nature and scope of what it publishes. Last year we started to take advantage of its flexibility and publish a research monograph. This year we continue to take advantage of its flexibility and publish a collection of real-world examples of employee participation and shared capitalism, which we believe are of great value to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners of management.
The scope of Advances will also continue to reflect great changes in the realities of participatory organizations over the last few decades. Following the disintegration of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, the principal systemic example of self-management was replaced with diverse forms of participatory systems. In advanced market economies, many firms have been experimenting with new and innovative work practices aimed at promoting employee participation in decision-making in the workplace (sometimes even at the top corporate level) and alternative compensation systems designed to align the interest between labor and management. In addition, a number of significant examples of worker cooperatives have flourished. In transition economies, the collapse of the former USSR triggered widespread experimentation with diverse forms of participation, in particular employee ownership. Finally, with the rise of the East Asian economies (first Japan, then South Korea, and most recently China), the geographical scope of Advances started to expand to include East Asia. This volume continues to reflect the emergence of multiple centers of gravity of the global economy.
I hope you will find this volume informative and stimulating and share information about Advances with other interested colleagues. Finally, Volume 18 will be my last volume of Advances as series editor, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all past guest editors, publishers, contributors, and readers of Advances.
Takao Kato
Series Editor
- Prelims
- Introduction
- Inter-Cooperation Mechanisms in Mondragon: Managing the Crisis of Fagor ElectrodomÉsticos
- ULMA Architectural Solutions: A Case from the Mondragon Cooperative Group
- Mid South Building and Supply: Surviving the Great Recession
- Employee Involvement Under Rising Competitive Pressure: Evidence from Two Manufacturing Firms in Japan
- Limitations of Business Unionism and Co-Op Conservatism: A Case Study of Denver’S Taxi Driver Union-Cooperatives
- Structuring Firms to Benefit Low-Income Workers: An Employee Ownership Case Study
- Board Structure at Carris Reels: A Participatory ESOP Company
- Atlas Container Corporation: Thinking Outside the Box
- Index