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Author : Keith Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Motivation and Control in the Mondragon Experiment written by Keith Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg MacLeod
Publisher : Cape Breton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780920336533
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (365 download)
Download or read book From Mondragon to America written by Greg MacLeod and published by Cape Breton University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A must read." -Dr. Jack Quarter, OISE "Combines the practical, hands-on analysis of what makes the Mondragon idea work with the best account in English of the thinking of its founder." -Race Mathews, Monash University, Australia.
Author : William Foote Whyte
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471737
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Making Mondragón written by William Foote Whyte and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. Its nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to education. In its industrial sector Mondragón has had a rich experience over many years in manufacturing products as varied as furniture, kitchen equipment, machine tools, and electronic components and in printing, shipbuilding, and metal smelting. Making Mondragón is a groundbreaking look at the history of worker ownership in the Spanish cooperative. First published in 1988, it remains the best source for those looking to glean a rich body of ideas for potential adaptation and implementation elsewhere from Mondragón's long and varied experience. This second edition, published in 1991, takes into account the major structural and strategic changes that were being implemented in 1990 to allow the enterprise to compete successfully in the European common market. Mondragón has created social inventions and developed social structures and social processes that have enabled it to overcome some of the major obstacles faced by other worker cooperatives in the past. William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte describe the creation and evolution of the Mondragón cooperatives, how they have changed through decades of experience, and how they have struggled to maintain a balance between their social commitments and economic realities. The lessons of Mondragón apply most clearly to worker cooperatives and other employee-owned firms, but also extend to regional development and stimulating and supporting entrepreneurship, whatever the form of ownership.
Author : Doug Kruse
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178190751X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms written by Doug Kruse and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ownership and decision-making are key issues in current debates among corporate, labor, and policy leaders. This volume contains cutting-edge research on the causes and effects of financial and decision-making participation around the globe, plus theory and thought pieces on the meaning and value of employee ownership in a rapidly changing world
Author : Tom Malleson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199330123
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book After Occupy written by Tom Malleson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low turnouts in national elections, the degree to which money corrupts the process, and the difficulties of mass participation in complex systems as just a few reasons why the system is flawed. The Occupy movement in 2011 proved that there is an emphatic dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs, particularly with the economy, but, ultimately, it failed to produce any coherent vision for social change. So what should progressives be working toward? What should the economic vision be for the 21st century? After Occupy boldly argues that democracy should not just be a feature of political institutions, but of economic institutions as well. In fact, despite the importance of the economy in democratic societies, there is very little about it that is democratic. Questioning whether the lack of democracy in the economy might be unjust, Tom Malleson scrutinizes workplaces, the market, and financial and investment institutions to consider the pros and cons of democratizing each. He considers examples of successful efforts toward economic democracy enacted across the globe, from worker cooperatives in Spain to credit unions and participatory budgeting measures in Brazil and questions the feasibility of expanding each. The book offers the first comprehensive and radical vision for democracy in the economy, but it is far from utopian. Ultimately, After Occupy offers possibility, demonstrating in a remarkably tangible way that when political democracy evolves to include economic democracy, our societies will have a chance of meaningful equality for all.
Author : Rory Ridley-Duff
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526471574
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Understanding Social Enterprise written by Rory Ridley-Duff and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of Understanding Social Enterprise comes packed with a wealth of learning features to help students understand the theory and practice within this ever expanding field. Updates to this edition include: New case studies and examples throughout Considerations of new developments in policy, the economy and legal implications of social enterprise A focus on the pathways that social enterprise follow
Author : Alan S. Blinder
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815717121
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Paying for Productivity written by Alan S. Blinder and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will higher pay provide an incentive for better work? Can productivity be increased by changing the way workers are compensated? In response to the urgent need to improve productivity performance in American industry, leading economists examine alternative compensation schemes to assess their efficiency in raising productivity. Over the years a number of suggestions have been made for improving labor productivity by changing the manner in which laborers are compensated for their efforts. The ideas presented and analyzed in this volume have all been put into practice, in modified form or on a small scale, in the United States or elsewhere. Some are new; others quite old. David I. Levine and Laura D'Andrea Tyson consider the effects of employee participation in decisionmaking on firm performance, and Martin L. Weitzman and Douglas L. Kruse discuss the implications of profit sharing and related forms of pay for group performance. Michael A. Conte and Jan Svejnar analyze employee stock ownership plans in the United States and other forms of worker ownership in Europe; Masanore Hashimoto uses a transaction-cost perspective to assess Japanese employment and wage systems. Daniel J. B. Mitchell, David Lewin, and Edward E. Lawler III give an overall analysis of traditional and alternative pay systems, their history, development, and curent use, and recommend further experimentation with alternative compensation plans to ensure more adaptability on the part of U.S. firms. Blinder provides an overview of the findings and conclusions.
Author : Raymond Russell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438418388
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Sharing Ownership in the Workplace written by Raymond Russell and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee ownership is the fastest growing organizational trend in American business. Instances of workers buying out closing plants, unions granting wage concessions in exchange for an employer's stock, and corporations using employee stock ownership as a defense against takeovers are occurring more frequently. But is the movement toward employee ownership a significant new trend or a repetition of past mistakes? Sharing Ownership in the Workplace traces the history of employee ownership in the United States and Western Europe to its incipiency in the nineteenth century. The findings are disturbing—labor-owned business tend to revert to conventional organizational structure. This book examines this phenomenon, an understanding of which is crucial for assessing the prospects of the emerging generation of employee-owned firms. It presents three contemporary case studies of businesses that have been employee owned for generations—scavenger firms, taxi cooperatives, and professional group practices—to determine what causes them to fail and what makes for successful labor-controlled operations. Throughout Russell integrates various ideological perspectives on worker-owned organizations, citing theorists as diverse as Karl Marx, Max Weber, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Louis Kelso, and Peter Drucker. Special attention is paid to the processes that lead to employee ownership, cause it to spread, and either to endure or to degenerate over time.
Author : Adrian Wilkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199207267
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations written by Adrian Wilkinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its various guises, the topic of employee participation has been a recurring theme in industrial relations and personnel management. The last twenty years has witnessed growing managerial interest in participation, specifically in the area of employee involvement (EI). Recent EIinitiatives have been management sponsored and, not surprisingly, have reflected a management agenda concerned primarily with employee motivation and commitment to organizational objectives. Compliance, hierarchy and following rules are seen as supposedly less appropriate for employees who areexpected to work beyond contract and exercise their initiative. Of course, there is a danger that many of the new initiatives are viewed solely in a positive and upbeat manner, so ignoring the more contested and mundane nature of participation.Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization - whether direct or indirect - conducted with employees or through their representatives. This handbook discusses the different arguments and schools of thought,with the aim of problematizing it, not just in terms of implementation but also principles. It brings together leading scholars from around the world, to present and discuss some fundamental theories and approaches to participation in organization, and their connection to broader political and evenchange. The Handbook contains a range of theoretically-informed contributions written by leading scholars in their respective fields, giving comprehensive coverage of changes in participation. It reviews changing contexts, different cultural/institutional models, old/'new' economy models, changingsocial and political patterns, and the correspondence between industrial and political democracy and participation.
Author : Oliver E. Williamson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 068486374X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Economic Intstitutions of Capitalism written by Oliver E. Williamson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited sequel to the modem classic "Markets and Hierarchies" develops and extends Williamson's innovative use of transaction cost economics as an approach to studying economic organization by applying it to work and labor as well as the corporation itself. In addition, Williamson explores its growing implications for public policy, including its potential influence on antitrust and merger guidelines, labor policy, and SEC and public utility regulations.
Author : Frank Heller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429779364
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Managing Democratic Organizations I written by Frank Heller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, this volume, along with its counterpart, consist of contributions to the history of management and management thought which ask and assess how important managing democratic organizations is today, and how important it will prove to be moving forward, presenting both optimistic and pessimistic interpretations. This collection describes three interrelated research programmes in the form of 38 classic essays and lists 21 authors.
Author : Frank A. Heller
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521403702
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Decision Making and Leadership written by Frank A. Heller and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1992-06-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Bean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000288196
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Comparative Industrial Relations written by R. Bean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, Comparative Industrial Relations is a comprehensive introductory text exploring the subject of cross-national comparisons of industrial relations. The book surveys, integrates and reviews a wealth of literature and research relating to comparative industrial relations structures and procedures. It covers key themes within industrial relations and incorporates material from a wide range of areas, including Western Europe, North America, Japan, and Australia. The considerable variety of differing practices and institutions are highlighted and examined, and extensive analysis and explanation is given to their similarities and differences. Comparative Industrial Relations provides detailed and varied perspectives on the contemporary state of knowledge within this important field.
Author : Gregory Andrusz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429802285
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Co-operative Alternative in Europe written by Gregory Andrusz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this book attempts to understand housing co-operatives in terms of their development over time and their relationships to other types of housing tenure. The book considers them within the framework of the broader co-operative movement and its role in society's overall system of production and exchange. There is an examination of the role of a form of ownership which is neither "private", nor "state" in six countries, and in some cases the fortunes of housing co-operatives seem closely to correlate with periods of political liberalization and crises, heralding a shift in ideological orientation.
Author : V. Franicevic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230523099
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Equality, Participation, Transition written by V. Franicevic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-06-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collections of essays in honour of Branko Horvat, an economist and social thinker of great international reputation from former Yugoslavia and nowadays Croatia. The essays deal with themes related to Horvat's own work, namely equality, social justice, employee participation, labour management, systemic change, privatization, and growth.
Author : John E. Roemer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349252875
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Property Relations, Incentives and Welfare written by John E. Roemer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-04-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic implosions of the centrally administered, non-democratic political systems in central and eastern Europe in the late 1980s have generated a body of research concerning the transition from public ownership, and the role of the market and other institutions in engendering good incentives for economic actors. The essays collected in this volume study property relations, their associated incentives and the consequent effects on welfare: the ubiquitous theme is that efficiency cannot be divorced from the distribution of productive assets.
Author : Ugo Pagano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134800487
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise written by Ugo Pagano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of central planning was hailed as evidence of the economic and moral superiority of capitalism over any possible alternative. The essays in this book challenge that claim. The case for more democratic forms of enterprise management is considered from a variety of viewpoints. One chapter deals with the philosophical justification for enterprise democracy. The remaining chapters are devoted to the question of efficiency, which has been central to economic debates about ownership and control. The orthodox belief amongst economists is that any shift to more democratic forms of enterprise control would be unworkable. The essays in this book provide a thorough theoretical and empirical critique of this orthodoxy.
