emerald PUBLISHING Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies: 18 (Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, 18)

With a growing prominence of sophisticated econometric research in a much-expanded field of New Economics of Participation (NEP), it is of particular value to learn about real-world examples of participatory and labor-managed firms in the advanced market economies through extensive case studies. In this volume of Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, the authors present such case studies. These real-world examples of participatory organizations described vividly in this volume will help researchers in NEP design empirical strategies better; and interpret their econometric results more sensibly. Furthermore, they will help policymakers and practitioners in their efforts to construct better public policy and design management practices. Review Many from Mondragon University in Spain, economists present case studies of worker-owned and worker-run businesses to help others design empirical studies in the new economics of participation. Among them are inter-cooperation mechanisms in Mondragon: managing the crisis of Fagor Electrodomesticos, employment involvement under rising competition pressure: evidence from two manufacturing firms in Japan, limitations of business unionism and co-op conservatism: a case study of Denver's taxi drivers union-cooperatives, and Atlas Container Corporation: thinking outside the box. -- Annotation ©2018 ― (protoview.com) About the Author Daphne Berry is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Hartford, USA. Her work focuses on employee ownership, inequality, and diversity in organizations. Her work has been published in outlets such as Gender, Work & Organization, the  Journal of Managerial Psychology, and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. She is a recipient of Rutgers Research and J. Robert Beyster fellowships.   Takao Kato is W.S. Schupf Professor in Economics and Far Eastern Studies at Colgate University. He is also a Research Fellow of IZA in Bonn; a Research Associate of CJEB at Columbia University; TCER in Tokyo; and CCP in Copenhagen; and Senior Fellow of ETLA in Helsinki. He holds the position of Faculty Fellow and Mentor of SMLR, Rutgers University.