Advances in the economic analysis of participatory & labor-managed firms / / edited by Antti Kauhanen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460931403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-78560-378-7
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Collana: Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, , 0885-3339 ; ; Volume 16
• Disciplina: 658.3152
• Soggetti: Management - Employee participation; Employee empowerment; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Editor's Introduction; Alternative Organizational Forms; Participatory Human Resource Practices; On the Entry of Employee-Owned Firms: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1870-1960; Introduction; Formation and Choice of Organizational Form; Assumptions Underlying the Model; Decision-Making of Potential Cooperators; Costs of Information and Association and the Possibility of Market Failure; Institutions and the Data on PCs; Empirical Analysis and Results Discussion of Empirical Results; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix; How to Start an Employee-owned Industrial Company and Survive for 35 Years; Introduction; The Impossibility of Employee Ownership; Degeneration Tendencies toward Traditional Ownership; Employee Ownership as a Historical Parenthesis; The Employee Takeover of Ljuders Nickelsilfverfabrik; The Effects of the Employee Takeover; The Legitimizing Leadership; The Possibility of Employee Ownership; Changes Take Time; Pride in the Collective; A Recipe for a Successful Employee Takeover and Ownership Acknowledgments; References; Motivations for Establishing ; Cooperative Companies in the Performing Arts: A European Perspective; Introduction; The Economic Context of Performing Arts in Europe; Why Must Collective Firms be Established? Insights from the Literature; Methodology of the Research; Sampling; Data Collection; Collection Protocol; Semi-Directive Interviews; Data Structure; Analysis and Validity of Data; Results and Discussion; Influence of the Instrumental Motive; A Dominant Economics Logic; Complementary Non-Economics Logics; Discussion Influence of the Ideological Motive; Shared Artistic and Ideological Values; Image and Militancy; Discussion; Contextual Influence; Complementary Results and Comments; Does the Dominant Type of Motivation Influence the Success of Collective Projects?; Dominant Motivation Type and Type of Organization; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Organizational Structure and Performance in European Banks: A Reassessment; Introduction; Conceptual Framework; Existing Empirical Evidence; The Data; Empirical Approach and Summary Statistics; Regression Results; Baseline Results Robustness Checks; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix: Data Changes; Formal Organizational Power and Innovation: From a Principal-Agent to an Institutionalist View; Introduction; Formal Organizational Power: Ownership and Governance; Innovation Efforts as a Key Feature of Innovation; Extant Views on Formal Power and Innovation: Micro-Level Views; An Institutionalist View of Formal Power and Innovation; MONDRAGON and Cases with the extreme Case; Background and Institutional Environment; Cases of Capital-Intensive Innovation; Company A: A Success Case of Capital-Intensive Innovation
• Sommario/riassunto: The articles in this volume offer stimulating research on the relationship among business cycles, participatory and labor-managed organizations, and employee voice. These contributions take various theoretical and empirical approaches and investigate many industries and countries, thus offering a balanced view on these current topics.