Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work Case Studies

"With a growing prominence of sophisticated econometric research in a much-expanded field of New Economics of Participation (NEP), it is of particular value to learn about real-world examples of participatory and labor-managed firms in the advanced market economies through extensive case studie...

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Otros Autores: Berry, Daphne (-), Kato, Takao, 1954-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited 2018.
©2018.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Advances in the economic analysis of participatory and labor-managed firms ; volume 18.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44682578*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT AT WORK: CASE STUDIES; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; INTER-COOPERATION MECHANISMS IN MONDRAGON: MANAGING THE CRISIS OF FAGOR ELECTRODOMÉSTICOS; INTRODUCTION; MECHANISMS OF INTER-COPERATION IN THE MONDRAGON GROUP; History of the Mondragon Experience from the Perspective of Inter-Cooperation; Mechanisms of Inter-Cooperation of the Mondragon Group; FAGOR ELECTRODOMÉSTICOS: BACKGROUND; Economic and Financial Figures for the Final Years of FED; The Crisis; Final Phase.
  • MANAGEMENT OF THE CRISIS: THE MECHANISMS OF INTER-COOPERATIONApplication of Inter-Cooperation Mechanisms Before the Closure of FED; Inter-Cooperation Mechanisms Following Closure; Post-Closure Lessons: Aspects to Encourage and Factors of Success; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES; ULMA ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS: A CASE FROM THE MONDRAGON COOPERATIVE GROUP; INTRODUCTION; 1. ULMA ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS; 2. RESEARCH ON PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES IN EMPLOYEE-OWNED AND COOPERATIVE FIRMS; 3. METHOD; 4. RESULTS; 5. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES.
  • MID SOUTH BUILDING AND SUPPLY: SURVIVING THE GREAT RECESSIONINTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY; MID SOUTH BUILDING SUPPLY; THE EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN; ESOP Pride; ESOP Challenges; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; Top Management Leadership; The Workplace Atmosphere; HUMAN RESOURCES; Staffing; CAREER ADVANCEMENT AND SUCCESSION PLANNING; Training and Development; Compensation and Benefits; OPERATIONS AND LOGISTICS; Background; Process; Subcontractor Installers; SALES AND MARKETING; Sales; Marketing; FINANCE; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT; Economic Environment; The Great Recession.
  • How MSBS survived the Great Recession?Technological Environment; Industry Competition; DISCUSSION OF THE CASE; Limitations; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; EMPLOYE INVOLVEMENT UNDER RISING COMPETITIVE PRESURE: EVIDENCE FROM TWO MANUFACT URING FIRMS IN JAPAN; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. AUTOPARTS UNDER WEAKENING KEIRETSU; 3. METAL UNDER INTENSIFYING COMPETITION FROM ABROAD; 4. MAKING SENSE OF THE DECLINING EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT UNDER RISING COMPETITIVE PRESSURE; 5. CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES.
  • LIMITATIONS OF BUSINESS UNIONISM AND CO-OP CONSERVATISM: A CASE STUDY OF DENVER's TAXI DRIVER UNION-COOPERATIVESAccommodating Job Consciousness versus Adversarial Class Consciousness; From Independent Contractors to Self-Employed Drivers: Uber's "Sharing Economy" Liberation?; Taxi Driver Cooperatives: New Directions in Denver Taxi Driver Organizing; Union Taxi in Denver; Green Taxi: A Second Union-Cooperative; Unionized Worker Cooperatives in Practice: Job or Class Consciousness?; Economically Driven Worker Cooperatives: "We are Owners, Not Workers."