Purpose: Both the academic literature and practitioners have long noted the need for an equity investment mechanism for worker-controlled firms that alleviates investor anxieties without undermining internal workplace democracy. The purpose of this paper is to outline one such possible...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: What happens to the outcomes of pay dispersion when the employees own stock in their own company? Design/methodology/approach: The data set consisted of over 20,000 employee surveys. Pay dispersion was measured with the Gini...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether performance is enhanced if firms use employee involvement (EI) in decision-making and financial participation (FP) in an emerging market economy. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use representative data for Estonian firms. The...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of employee ownership (EO) on the creation of shareholders’ wealth in companies in Cameroon. Design/methodology/approach: The methodological approach adopted is hypothetical-deductive. The sample includes 89 companies, of which 31...

Purpose: The literature on the union wage premium is among the most extensive in labour economics but unions’ effects on other aspects of the wage-effort bargain have received much less attention. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature through a study of the union...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to take a serious look at the relationship between joint consultation systems at the workplace and employee satisfaction, while at the same time accounting for the (possible) interactions with similar union and management-led high commitment strategies....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine which forms of compensation are more efficient at affecting employee attitudes, thus extending efficiency wage theory from wage-based compensation to profit sharing and stock-based compensation. Design/methodology/approach: Three models of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze policies where employee share ownership might be relevant to the inequality debate in the USA. Design/methodology/approach: Description and analysis of policy alternatives designed to increase the prevalence of employee ownership in...

Purpose: This is a national census of all worker cooperatives in the USA for 2017 implemented by the Democracy at Work Institute which is affiliated with the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives, the largest worker cooperative association in the USA. The paper aims to discuss these...