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Two main books for employee ownership and participation !
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28.02.2005: Committee for Effective Employee Ownership, the full document (49 pages, pdf)
15.06.2004: A must: Robert Oakeshott's new book: "Jobs & Fairness. The logic and experience of employee ownership." Robert is Britain's leading expert on employee ownership. You can order this book, clicking here.
20.02.2003: New major document: Report for the European Parliament, by Virginie Pérotin and Andrew Robinson:
Employee Participation in Profit and Ownership: A Review of the Issues and Evidence, Report for the European Parliament (60 pages, PDF)
02.11.2002: Employee ownership, motivation and productivity (PDF). A research report for Employees Direct from Birkbeck and The Work Foundation. By Jonathan Michie, Christine Oughton and Yvonne Bennion. November 2002. 34 pages. A wonderful research on EO companies cases in UK.
01.08.2002: Combining Participation in Decision-Making with Financial Participation: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, by Stephan Cludts. Proefschrift voorgedragen tot het behalen van de graad van Doctor in de Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculteit Economische en Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, Nummer 168, 2002, 352 pages.
10.06.2002: A workers introduction to the Share Incentive Plan (PDF), by David Wheatcroft, June 2002
01.04.2002: Participatory Ownership and Management in Greenland and other Arctic Regions, by Gorm Winther and others
01.03.2002: Maria Jarosz, TEN YEARS OF DIRECT PRIVATIZATION IN POLAND, Warsaw 2000, 294 pages.
15.02.2002: A WORKER INTRODUCTION TO EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP (by David Wheatcroft) (45 pages. Second Edition available into COG's library)
15.03.2001: The European Company statute and employee participation (Evelyne Pichot)

10.03.2001: International stock plans - The Practitioner's Guide (by Louis Rorimer)

A terrific handbook explaining global stock plan creation, compliance and communications in 12 European countries and others (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK), in 2 volumes.

01.12.2000: By Erik MAALOE, member of the EFES Board (Denmark):
'THE EMPLOYEE OWNER," 477 pages, ISBN 87-500-3519-3. Academic Press, Copenhagen 1998 James Allen, price 53 EURO, email www.kvorning.dk/akademisk/order.html. Employees are becoming major investors in their own businesses. More than 17 million U.S. employees now own over $650 billion in stock of their own working place. This has lead to the founding of "The European Federation of Employee Share-holders" earlier this year. A wealth of data shows that companies that combine ow-nership with a high degree of worker involvement, perform far better than other companies in the same sector. This study shows what happens when workers and management together buy their workplace. It describes how tough it is move from the adversarial 'we-them' culture to one of caring and sharing. The study is unique as a longitudinal study of a culture in the making and challenges experienced by different actors within the company have rarely been revealed in such detail revealing the emerging values of ownership culture: honesty and willingness to inform and listen to what may be a concern to others.
Recommandations:
�The Employee Owner� offers a wealth of detailed observations on the development of employee ownership in a fairly diverse sampling of US manufacturing companies, - small and large - union and non-union. It provides useful lessons and principles of action for those interested in studying or introducing an ongoing culture of participatory ownership. The author/interviewer has collected a candid and revealing statement from rank-and-file workers, managers and union representatives. He tries to provide objective observations on how the participatory ownership process has actually developed over time in these companies - showing �warts and all�, while avoiding taking sides. He seems genuinely sympathetic to all parties and their respective concerns (Norman G Kurland, Center of Economic And Social Justice, Washington DC).
... thorough and intensive field work, the authors listens literally to a multitude of stories and points of view about the participation experience (Report from HBK prize winning jury).
Very important fieldwork, fascinating field material and interesting theoretical ideas�(William Foote Whyte, Emeritus Professor Cornell University).
Exciting as a crime story .. Participation in new perspectives .. A source of inspiration for new ideas (Jens Genefke, Review in Management To day (DK).
"A tremendous book�� (Marc Mathieu, European Federation of Employed Share Ownership).
This is good reading not only for those interested in employee ownership but also for students of organizational change (Erik Poutsma, Review in Economic and Industrial Democracy).
02.11.2000: French bibliography: click on Prométhée (France)
01.10.2000: By Patrick GUIOL, member of the EFES Board (France): La démocratie dans l'entreprise: une utopie? in Revue Panoramiques, n°46. Click here: http://www.editions.corlet.fr/panoramiques/sun/html/46.html
September 1996: Report PEPPER II � Promotion of Employee Participation in Profits and Enterprise Results (including participation to capital) in the Member States, Communication of the Commission, COM(96)0697
September 1991: the Commission publishes Report PEPPER 1 � Promotion of Employee Participation in Profits and Enterprise Results.