| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Advances in the economic analysis of participatory and labor-managed firms, 0885-3339 ; v. 11 |
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Advances in the economic analysis of participatory and labor-managed firms ; v. 11.
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| Contents |
To join or not to join?: factors influencing employee share plan membership in a multinational corporation / Alex Bryson and Richard B. Freeman -- Do innovative workplace practices foster mutual gains?: evidence from Croatia / Derek C. Jones and Srecko Goic -- The performance impact of financial participation: subjective and objective measures compared / Panu Kalmi and Christina Sweins -- Employee discretion and the labor-market environment / Jaime Ortega -- The productivity effects of profit sharing, employee ownership, stock option and team incentive plans: evidence from Korean panel data / Takao Kato, Ju Ho Lee and Jang-Soo Ryu -- Stock option schemes and firm technical inefficiency: evidence from Finland / Mikko Mäkinen -- The union wage premium, voice, and nonunion workers' attitutdes: before and after Japan's lost decade / Tsuyoshi Tsuru -- Worker and community cooperatives: a multi-criterion model / Roger A. McCain -- Antecedents and consequences of the adoption of market-based compensation by Israeli Kibbutzim / Raymond Russell, Robert Hanneman and Shlomo Getz -- From destructive to creative trade through economic democracy / Jaroslav Vanek |
| Summary |
This volume includes theoretical and empirical research into changing institutions and employee participation. Topics covered include: - The experience with employee ownership in relation to the fast change of institutions in transitional countries including those in Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, and China; - The influence of the specific institutional setting on development; e.g. For the Mondragon Group of coops or the Italian Cooperative Associations, development as affected both by the institutional structure within the group and the surrounding institutions; - The influence of legislation in different countries of conditions for the development of different types of employee participation; - The re-shaping of the role of the employees as company stakeholders and the impact of these changes on employee motivation, effort and productivity; - The impact of new employee incentive schemes, reward structures or other incentive mechanisms (if any) on firm productivity and financial performance; - Evidence of the implementation and effects of the 'employee share-ownership education'; - The impact of different informal institutions (culture) on the development and performance of different forms of employee participation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Management -- Employee participation.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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Management -- Employee participation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eriksson, Tor, 1952-
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| ISBN |
085724454X |
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9780857244543 |
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1282964070 |
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9781282964075 |
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