Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path to Engaged Employee Ownership

by F. Shipper (Editor)

Overview

Today's views of leadership and management have significantly expanded to incorporate a variety of elements such as rewards, visions, and worker participation. However, most perspectives still view leadership as something that is assigned to a designated person who then exercises influence downward toward subordinate followers. In many ways the persistent top-down command and control theme that supports established leadership thought and practice prevents organizations from fully tapping into their human resources, in turn limiting their flexibility to meet the challenges of increasingly dynamic, complex, and competitive environments. Shared Entrepreneurship replaces the top-down approaches of the past with a new framework that draws strengths and innovation from collaboration and sharing. This book is divided into two main sections. The first section consists of six chapters which provide an in-depth overview and discussion of shared entrepreneurship. The second section consists of eight original case studies commissioned by the authors, featuring such companies as Herman Miller, Inc., SRC Holdings, and W.L. Gore & Associates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137332219
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	08/13/2014
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	295
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Frank Shipper is Professor of Management in the Franklin P. Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University, USA. His teaching, consulting, and research interests are managerial/leadership skills development, employee ownership, and collaborative cultures. He has consulted for and studied employee-owned companies for over 25 years. Among other honors, he has received a Regents Award for excellence in research, University System of Maryland's highest faculty honor.

Stephen B. Adams, Salisbury University, USA Marvin O. Brown, Salisbury University, USA Thomas J. Calo, Salisbury University, USA Benita W. Harris, Asbury United Methodist Church, USA Richard C. Hoffman, Salisbury University, USA Charles C. Manz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA Karen P. Manz, unaffiliated Bill Nobles, Rutgers University, USA Oliver P. Roche, Salisbury University, USA Greg L. Stewart, University of Iowa, USA Marc D. Street, Salisbury University, USA Vera L. Street, Salisbury University, USA Frank Shipper, Salisbury University, USA Christy H. Weer, Salisbury University, USA.

Table of Contents

PART I: UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING SHARED ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1. Shared Entrepreneurship: Toward an Ethical, Dynamic, Empowering, Freedom-Based Process of Collaborative Innovation; Frank Shipper, Charles C. Manz, Karen P. Manz, Bill Nobles 2. Shared Leadership: The Do's and Don'ts in Shared Entrepreneurship Enterprises; Frank Shipper, Charles C. Manz 3. Shared Governance: Structures and Processes; Olivier P. Roche, Richard C. Hoffman, Marvin O. Brown 4. Innovation through Shared Entrepreneurship; Marc D. Street, Vera L. Street, Frank Shipper 5. Culture in Shared Entrepreneurship Firms; Thomas J. Calo, Wayne H. Decker, Christy H. Weer 6. Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path Forward; Frank Shipper PART II: SHARED ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ACTION 7. SRC Holdings: Winning the Game While Sharing the Prize; Vera L. Street, Marc D. Street, Christy H. Weer, Frank Shipper 8. Herman Miller: Unrelenting Pursuit of Reinvention and Renewal; Frank Shipper, Karen P. Manz, Stephen B. Adams, Charles C. Manz 9. Equal Exchange: Doing Well by Doing Good; Benita W. Harris, Frank Shipper, Karen P. Manz, Charles C. Manz 10. TEOCO (The Employee Owned Company): Principled; Thomas J. Calo, Olivier Roche, Frank Shipper 11. HCSS: Employee Ownership and the Entrepreneurial Spirit; Olivier Roche, Frank Shipper 12. MBC Ventures, Inc.: An ESOP with a Union Partner; Richard C. Hoffman, Marvin O. Brown, Frank Shipper 13. KCI Technologies, Inc.: Engineering the Future, One Employee at a Time; Vera L. Street, Christy H. Weer, Frank Shipper 14. W. L. Gore & Associates: Developing Global Teams to Meet 21st Century Challenges; Frank Shipper, Charles C. Manz, Greg L. Stewart

Editorial Reviews

"The authors of Shared Entrepreneurship have provided an informative model of how employee-owned firms have had long-term success by sharing the responsibility for innovation among all employees, the resulting financial outcomes and rewards, and the leadership to make a difference. They also provide details that could be used by start-up and established companies to improve their performance through intensive employee engagement concepts. Business students and managers would benefit from reading the examples of shared entrepreneurship in this timely book." - Mary Ann Beyster, President, Foundation for Enterprise Development, USA; Executive Producer, We the Owners

"Employee-ownership and profit-sharing are on the radar screen of every businessperson with a moral vision, every conservative who wants to spread property ownership, every progressive who is interested in economic justice, and anyone interested in how American business can address economic inequality through business successes. Shared Entrepreneurship tells the stories of companies where ownership and profits are broadly shared by empowered workers and managers. Furthermore, it portrays what the future business world can look like." - Joseph R. Blasi, J. Robert Beyster Professor, Rutgers University, USA; Author, The Citizen's Share

"A majority of the literature highlights the heroic leader, the lone genius, and the brilliant entrepreneur that created successful innovation. This book is more realistic and insightful. It highlights how entrepreneurial activity really unfolds in organizations. You will learn a lot about what works, and how to make it work for yourself, by learning from companies that unleash the entrepreneurial potential in their workforce." - Kim Cameron, William Russell Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Michigan, USA

"Shared Entrepreneurship examines a number of companies that have implemented principles underlying organizational democracy.When these principles are implemented employees have greater freedom at work. In the companies that are examined as well as in other such companies, both humanistic and financial results ensue, such as greater engagement and higher returns. This examination is very timely and informative, and is strongly recommended for current and futures leaders looking to develop a sustainable competitive advantage." - Traci Fenton, Founder and CEO, WorldBlu, USA

"This book is an excellent exploration of various types of employee ownership and its astonishing economic success. It strikes a great balance between the provision of evidence and discussion. It is essential reading for anyone genuinely interested in the long term future of global economies." - Iain Hasdell, Chief Executive, Employee Ownership Association, UK

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