Employee ownership and ESOPs

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Ownership distributed to the workforce. Stack is the practitioner classic; Blasi and Kruse supply the evidence.

7 books

Start here

  1. The Great Game of BusinessJack Stack, Bo Burlingham, 1992
  2. A Stake in the OutcomeJack Stack, Bo Burlingham, 2002
  3. The Citizen's ShareJoseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse, 2013

Books 7

The Great Game of Business
T1 The Great Game of Business
Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham · 1992 · Open-book management at SRC; the founding text of employee ownership practice.
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A Stake in the Outcome
T2 A Stake in the Outcome
Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham · 2002 · The follow-on on building an ownership culture, not just an ESOP.
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The Citizen's Share
T2 The Citizen's Share
Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse · 2013 · The long American history of profit-sharing and broad-based ownership.
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In the Company of Owners
T3 In the Company of Owners
Joseph R. Blasi, Douglas L. Kruse, Aaron Bernstein · 2003 · Broad-based stock options and what they did to company performance.
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Equity: Why Employee Ownership Is Good for B
T3 Equity: Why Employee Ownership Is Good for Business
Corey Rosen, John Case, Martin Staubus · 2005 · The NCEO's evidence on when shared ownership raises performance.
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Beyond the Corporation
T3 Beyond the Corporation
David Erdal · 2011 · An owner who converted his own firm, on employee ownership in practice.
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Ownership: Reinventing Companies, Capitalism
T3 Ownership: Reinventing Companies, Capitalism, and Who Owns What
Corey Rosen, John Case · 2022 · Current survey of ESOPs, worker co-ops and employee trusts.
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