LIBRARY

18.06.2010: Le Centre d'Analyse Stratégique du Gouvernement français a publié son rapport "Améliorer la gouvernance d’entreprise et la participation des salariés" Télécharger le rapport complet
14.05.2010: German Unions Confederation DGB: Belegschaftskapital als attraktiver Baustein einer Krisenlösung (employee ownership as a solution to the crisis)
01.01.2010: Jens Lowitzsch - PEPPER IV Report "Benchmarking Financial Participation of Employees in the EU-27"
02.07.2009: Mit-Unternehmer.com - Newsletter 2009-06 - Bücher mit den Themen der Vergütung oder Beteiligung von Mitarbeitern
15.06.2009: Li Xing & Gorm Winther - Crisis, Opportunities and Alternatives. This book proposes an examination of how globalization and transnational capitalism have reshaped the terrain and parameters of social, economic and political relations both at the national and the global levels,  including a discussion about Mondragon's development.
10.06.2009: Australia - Employee Share Ownership and the Progressive Economic Agenda
27.01.2009: Jens Lowitzsch - PEPPER IV Report Summary - Benchmarking of Employee Participation in Profits and Enterprise Results in the Member and Candidate Countries of the European Union
27.01.2009: Jens Lowitzsch - PEPPER IV Report - Full Strasbourg Edition
17.04.2008: Belgique: Les plans d'"actionnariat salarié" se popularisent
26.03.2008: L'Actionnariat salarié, par Amélie Bruder, Editions Maurice Aumage, Paris 2008
06.03.2008: Anthony Jensen, University of Sydney - Spain pioneers Sustainable Democratic Corporate Governance Business Model with Sociedades Laborales

8.10.2007: Nieuw boek van August Van Put          
                "Participatief ondernemen - De ontbrekende hoeksteen voor de Top van Lisabon"
18.10.2007: "Les effets de participation des salariés sur la performance des entreprises", Xavier Hollandts - thèse de doctorat soutenue à Lyon le 4.9.2007
22.03.2006: Erik Poutsma and others: Changing Patterns of Employee Financial Participation in Europe 2006 - A survey among listed firms in Six European Member States
26.01.2006: Pinsent Masons is the author of the share scheme "bible" - "Employee Share Schemes" published by Sweet & Maxwell (UK)
17.10.2005: Stock options: The European Commission – DG Enterprise and Industry organised a study on employee stock options, leading to the conclusion in 2003 that: Employee stock options can help to promote entrepreneurship (click to get the full document)    This conclusion was based on a Final report by the Expert Group on Employee Stock Options  and on the DG Enterprise study on Employee Stock Options in the EU and USA
05.10.2005: France: Report to the French Prime Minister by deputies Cornut-Gentille and Godfrain "une ambition: la participation pour tous"
05.10.2005: France: les propositions de la FAS
15.09.2005: European Foundation Dublin: Financial Participation in the EU: a benchmarking study of Slovenia
29.08.2005: The EUROPEAN EOLE REPORT (Report of the Fifth European Meeting of Employee Ownership)
30.06.2005: The Mondragon Co-operative Research Conference 2005 was held in Mondragon on 28 June. We noticed 3 remarkable papers:
- Entry, exit and the business cycle. Are coops different? by Virginie Perotin, Leeds University Business School.
- The business of co-operative education: Master of Management - Co-operatives and credit unions, by John Chamard, Stephen Dutcher and Tom Webb, Saint Mary's University. Tom Webb took part in the first stages of our EOLE Programme.
- Challenges and opportunities for Mondragon co-operatives in the face of globalization, by Isabel Uribe and Ignazio Iribar, Mondragon University.

Two major books for employee ownership and participation !
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10.06.2005: About the role of employee ownership in local economic development in Australia
28.02.2005: Committee for Effective Employee Ownership, the full document (49 pages, pdf)
26.10.2004: European Foundation Dublin: Financial participation in the EU: Indicators for benchmarking
06.09.2004: European Foundation Dublin: Financial participation for SMEs: barriers and potential solutions
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.
18.05.2004: European Foundation Dublin: Financial Participation: the role of governments and social partners
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)
15.12.2001: "Recent trends in employee financial participation in the EU", joint publication by the European Commission together with the European Foundation Dublin
15.03.2001: The European Company statute and employee participation (Evelyne Pichot)

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.
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
15.11.1999: A company perspective on financial participation in the EU - Objectives and obstacles
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.