"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...

This paper compares worker-owned firms and mainstream capital-owned enterprises over the business cycle. Specifically, I study whether conventional employees in worker-owned firms enjoy greater employment stability than similar workers in traditional enterprises over the business cycle, and...

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)...

"In Workers' Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina's empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (ERTs, worker-recuperated enterprises), a workers' occupy movement that surged at the turn-of-the-millennium in the thick of the country's...

The sunk cost effect has been widely observed in individual decisions. Building on an intra-personal self-management game, the paper theoretically shows that the sunk cost effect may stem from an attempt to overcome the under-investment problem associated with a high degree of present bias or to...

Existing studies find that labor-management complementarities (LMCs) exist. This paper adds to that literature by quantifying the effect of LMCs on levels of, and differences in, production and efficiency. I find that levels of LMCs are sometimes positively but other times negatively related to...

The purpose of this paper will be to share on two studies that pertain to teamwork by analyzing information presented by the two studies as they pertain to leadership role and styles, collaborative initiatives and effectiveness, and motivational culture. In addition, this paper's author will...

This paper empirically examines the impact of self-managed working time (SMWT) on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. As a policy for the decentralization of decision rights, SMWT provides employees with extensive control over scheduling individual working time. From a...

This paper theoretically and empirically examines the impact of self-managed working time (SMWT) on employee effort. As a means of increased worker autonomy, SMWT can theoretically increase effort via intrinsic motivation and reciprocal behaviour, but can lead to a decrease of effort due to a...

Since the recent crisis, the resilience of worker cooperatives has not gone unnoticed in Europe (Cecop, 2012). In France this renewed interest in worker cooperatives has led to a new law in 2013 promoting this model of enterprise based on democratic governance. The legal status of worker...