I estimate a structural model of teams, autonomy, and financial performance, using a cross section of British establishments. My findings suggest that team production improves financial performance for the typical establishment but that autonomous teams do no better than closely supervised or...

We rationalize several facts emerging from the recent empirical research on cooperatives owned by workers (workers' firms, WF) as: the concern of WFs for employment; the interplay between membership and workplace safeguard within WFs; the different reaction to shocks between WFs and...

Worker cooperatives—firms owned and governed by their workers—have experimented with organizational structure in aid of greater equality. Gender theorists and cooperativists have argued that bureaucracy produces inequality, but bureaucracy has also demonstrably reduced organizational...

Background: Chronic disease accounts for 75% of total Australian health expenditure. Self-management is important for healthcare quality and cost containment but is challenging to assess. Reliable and valid assessment tools, like the Patient Assessment of Care in Chronic Conditions (PACIC+), are...

We rationalize several facts emerging from the recent empirical research on cooperatives owned by workers (workers’ firms, WF) as: the concern of WFs for employment; the interplay between membership and workplace safeguard within WFs; the different reaction to shocks between WFs and...

This paper argues that worker cooperatives are prone to redistribution among members, and that this redistribution distorts incentives. I assume that employment contracts are incomplete. In the model cooperative members pay in a capital contribution to purchase equipment. They then receive...

"This book offers practical insight into the changing ways in which organizations operate today. Building on a ground-breaking concept of teal organisations, the book illustrates the practicality of advocating a lack of hierarchy of predetermined positions and the introduction of roles that come...

Worker cooperatives: what workers want -- "By deed instead of by argument:" worker ownership in the United States -- Metamorphoses: worker cooperatives in the Golden Valley -- People's Daily Bread Bakery: worker ownership, working-class empowerment -- One World Natural Grocery: managing without...

1. Growing Up -- 2. Uppsala -- 3. Doctor -- 4. After the Dissertation -- 5. Essays -- 6. The Hunt for a Chair -- 7. The Housing Market -- 8. The Dream of the Labor-Managed Economy -- 9. Contrasting Economies: Sweden and the Developing Countries -- 10. Three Continents -- 11. In Parliament -- 12....

"In 2001 Argentina experienced a massive economic crisis: businesses went bankrupt, unemployment spiked, and nearly half the population fell below the poverty line. In the midst of the crisis, Buenos Aires' iconic twenty-story Hotel Bauen quietly closed its doors, forcing long-time hospitality...

In recent years, there has been growing policy support for expanding worker ownership of businesses in the European Union. Debates on stimulating worker ownership are a regular feature of discussions on the collaborative economy and the future of work, given anxieties regarding the...

The bureaucratic organizational structure has been recently challenged by a number of organizations that claim to offer employee emancipation and autonomy through self-management, self-organizing, or "holacracy." To facilitate theorizing about such organizational-level self-management, I examine...

Thanks to algorithmic management, the digital platform sector does not require sophisticated governance structures and labour intensity tends to be higher than in traditional sectors. So, why aren’t usually digital labour platforms worker cooperatives? We develop a simple model to study...

Intro -- Über den Autor -- Felix Wemheuer: Kann der Markt den Sozialismus retten? (Einleitung) -- Kapitel 1: Neue Ökonomische Politik (NÖP): Taktischer Rückzug oder Modell für den Aufbau des Sozialismus? -- Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin: Den Austausch mit den Bauern über den Markt regeln (1921)...

This chapter argues that in some of the successor states of former Yugoslavia an economic system of political capitalism has replaced the former economic system of socialist self-management. The chapter focuses on the examples of Croatia and Serbia using a case-study approach. In the former...

Our everyday lives are structured by the rhythms, values, and practices of various organizations, including schools, workplaces, and government agencies. These experiences shape common-sense understandings of how ';best' to organize and connect with others. Today, for-profit managerial firms...

The purpose of this paper is to go back to the first principles of democracy and private property, and to show that they are violated by the conventional firms based on the employment relations and are satisfied by the legal form of a worker cooperative. The conventional bundle of rights in a...

This research investigated the effects of three instructional design formats on learning introductory accounting. In accordance with cognitive load theory, it was predicted that students who would learn with a guided self-managed instructional design format would outperform students who would...

This paper offers an outline of a large body of economic literature which discusses the advantages of a system of employee-managed firms: the disempowerment of capitalists thanks to the suppression of their right to make decisions in cooperative firms; appreciable efficiency gains from worker...