"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...

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...

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...

Research questions: How are management agreements in the German hotel market configured as reaction to the growing uncertainty? Which adaptations are made to management agreements in Germany according to their uncertainty reducing effect? Is a higher level of flexibility negotiated into...

This paper investigates the relationship between workplace democracy and job flows (net job creations, gross job creations and destructions) by comparing the behavior of worker-managed firms (WMFs) and conventional firms. The empirical analysis relies on high frequency administrative firm-level...

Introduction -- Historical materialism and democratic firm management -- A system of producer cooperatives -- Democratic firm management and socialism -- More advantages of a system of democratic firms -- Unemployment in a system of producer cooperatives -- Democratic socialism and income...

Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...

Different theoretical explanations suggest that worker-managed firms (WMFs) are prone to failure in competitive environments. Using a long panel of Uruguayan firms, the author presents new evidence on firm survival comparing WMFs and conventional firms. Excluding microenterprises and controlling...

Given that street business is conducted in highly place-specific fashions in different countries, the management of street business as an example of managing urban informality is a subject well worth investigating in the context of urban management. Drawing upon theories of decentralized...

A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on...

A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on...

Selbstverwaltete Betriebe bilden in der Schweiz und vielen anderen Ländern einen Organisationstypus an der Schnittstelle zwischen wirtschaftlicher und zivilgesellschaftlicher Sphäre, und sie sind ein Spezialfall der Sozialunternehmung. Ihr wirtschaftlicher Charakter ergibt sich daraus, dass...