Predominantly in the USA, the business case for organizational democracy has recently
emerged out of new wave management and is characterized by a communitarian challenge …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to give an updated overview of the research on
employee ownership. What does the scientific literature reveal about advantages and …

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is
possible or desirable. This book challenges this view with two arguments. First, the above …

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 …

This article presents new econometric evidence on the comparative behavior of worker
cooperatives and capitalist firms, highlighting the differences in wages and employment …

The authors investigate how worker-owned and capitalist enterprises differ with respect to
wages, employment, and capital in Italy, the market economy with the greatest incidence of …

The idea that employees can run firms sounds unrealistic to many people. Even if they
accept that businesses owned and managed by their employees exist, most people still think …

The co-operative and mutual enterprise business model represents a unique type of
organisation that has a dual purpose focused on both economic and social goals. For nearly …

The interpretations hitherto produced on co-operatives firms have been, in general terms,
unsatisfactory. The reasons are to be found in the limitations of the dominant theoretical …

This study outlines a theory of social class based on workplace ownership and authority
relations, and it investigates the link between social class and growth in personal income …