Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership: Volume 6 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Introduction to special issue of overcoming the barriers for employee ownership - part 2

Niels Mygind, Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse

Employee ownership in the UK

Andrew Pendleton, Andrew Robinson, Graeme Nuttall

The paper traces the development of employee ownership in the UK since the 1980s. It proposes that employee ownership is a function of macro-level contexts and micro-level…

Employee ownership in the USA: lessons to consider in creating more inclusive capitalism

Corey Rosen

This paper aims to identify the key lessons to learn from the US employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)-model. The lessons are, broad-based employee ownership is difficult to attain…

Overcoming barriers of employee ownership in France, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US

Niels Mygind

The purpose of this paper is to give an updated overview over the development of employee-ownership in Italy, France, Spain including Mondragon, the UK and the US with relatively…

Three models of employee ownership: worker cooperative, EOT and ESOP – overcoming barriers – important choices – pros and cons

Niels Mygind

The purpose of this paper is to compare three models of employee ownership and to identify pros and cons in relation to how the models can overcome the barriers. Which choices are…