Most retail food firms adhere to traditional human resources management practices, with employees enjoying little involvement in decision-making and little participation in company financial returns. More than one tenth of non-food firms have innovative human resources systems, with much...

A voluntary communal economic system differs from most types of economic organizations in that its members prefer to carry out certain activities collecti vely, and significant production and consumption activities take plac e within it. Communal systems are analytically modeled in the article...