Employee Ownership, Participation and Governance: A Study of ESOPs in the UK / Edition 1

by Dr Andrew Pendleton

Overview

This volume is an examination of the origins, characteristics and performance of employee-owned firms. It focuses on firms that have converted to either partial or full employee ownership using recent institutional, fiscal and legal innovations. Based on five years of empirical research, this is a topical contribution to recent debates on the challenging nature of employment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138863965
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/09/2015
Series:	Routledge Research in Employment Relations
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The development of employee ownership
3. Employee ownership and politics
4. The structures of employee ownership
5. Contexts and reasons for employee ownership
6. Employee participation and governance: theory and predictions
7. Employee participation and governance: institutions, practices, and outcomes
8. Ownership, participation, and employee attitudes
9. Discussion and conclusions

Editorial Reviews

'...the book has considerable strengths for the students or scholars of employment relations generally and of industrial democracy specifically.' - Work, employment and society, Jeff Hyman, Caledonian University, UK

'The book has considerable strengths for the students or scholars of employment relations generally and of industrial democracy specifically.' - Work, Employment and Society

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