Steven Freeman and Jacquelyn Yates[1]
Scholars from many disciplines provide a wealth of diverse perspectives and research on employee ownership and other forms of shared capitalism. The lack of a well-institutionalized curriculum and established bibliography, however, can be an obstacle for those interested in getting the big picture or generally learning more. To provide access to the full range of literature, The Foundation for Enterprise Development (FED) and the Employee Ownership Foundation (EOF) support two databases. Here is a brief introduction to them and a few lists of their top employee ownership citations.
The Curriculum Library on Employee Ownership (CLEO) is for teachers and students to access, rank, and share course material and scholarly research. The materials collected on Aspen Institute Center for Business Education’s Caseplace are designed to serve as “The Internet Home for Teaching about Employee Ownership.” As of July 15, 2011, the database included more than 500 entries. It emphasizes case studies, but includes other materials as well, including all we describe below.
For research purposes, FED and EOF also sponsored bibliographic research, including material on how to use relevant bibliographic citation manager software.[2] I In addition to these, however, those interested in employee ownership research may want to use these multidisciplinary sources from which we’ve drawn materials.
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge Citation Index is a comprehensive index of articles from peer-reviewed scholarly journals. It includes a complete listing of the references cited by a particular article and a list of works that have cited that article. Although it excludes books and journals that are not peer-reviewed, ISI citation counts serve as a proxy for how influential a work is within a scholarly/scientific community. A June 15, 2011 ISI search of the topic "employee ownership" of ESOP yielded a total of 273 articles. Here are the top ten listings:
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Tot Cites
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Avg/ Year
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Title | Authors | Source | Pub Year |
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76
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3.6
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Employee Ownership - a Conceptual-Model of Process and Effects | Pierce JL, Rubenfeld SA, Morgan S | Academy of Management Review | 1991 |
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76
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2.5
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Absenteeism When Workers Have a Voice - The Case of Employee Ownership | Hammer TH, Landau JC, Stern RN | Journal of Applied Psychology | 1981 |
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70
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5.0
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Understanding Compensation Practice Variations Across Firms: The Impact of National Culture | Schuler, RS; Rogovsky, N | Journal of International Business Studies | 1988 |
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69
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4.1
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Customer Satisfaction Incentives | Hauser JR, Simester Di, Wernerfelt B | Marketing Science | 1994 |
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65
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1.9
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Effects of Employee Ownership on Organizational Identification, Employee Job Attitudes, and Organizational Performance - Tentative Framework and Empirical Findings | Long, Richard J. | Human Relations | 1978 |
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63
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3.7
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Work Alienation and Problem Alcohol Behavior | Greenberg, ES; Grunberg, L; | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1995 |
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60
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3.5
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The Productivity Effects of Employee Stock-Ownership Plans and Bonuses - Evidence From Japanese Panel-Data | Jones DC, Kato T | American Economic Review | 1995 |
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54
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1.7
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Employee Ownership - Implications For The Organizational Distribution of Power | Hammer TH, Stern RN | Academy of Management Journal | 1980 |
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41
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2.4
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Employee Participation, Ownership, and Productivity - a Theoretical Framework | Benner A, Jones DC | Industrial Relations | 1995 |
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41
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2.0
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Them and Us - Social-Psychology and The New Industrial-Relations | Kelly J, Kelly C | British Journal of Industrial Relations | 1991 |
Google Scholar is a less precise but more comprehensive database creating rankings based not only citation counts, but also other factors such as links. Because of this and because it includes books and non- peer reviewed articles. Google Scholar serves as a proxy for use in the larger world of practitioners and policy-makers. Here is the June 15, 2011 Google Scholar top ten:
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Rank
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Title | Authors | Source |
Pub Year
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1
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Employee ownership in transition | Earle John S, Saul Estrin | Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford Univ |
1995
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2
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Employee ownership: A conceptual model of process and effects |
Pierce JL, Rubenfeld SA, Morgan S | The Academy of Management |
1991
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3
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Employee ownership: revolution or ripoff? | Blasi, Joseph R. | Ballinger Pub. Co. |
1988
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4
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Employee participation, ownership, and productivity: A theoretical framework | Benner A, Jones DC | Journal of Economy and Society |
1995
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5
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Employee ownership in America: The equity solution. | Rosen CM, KJ Klein… | Lexington Books |
1986
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6
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The new owners: The mass emergence of employee ownership in public companies and what it means to American business | Blasi, Joseph R. | HarperCollins(book) |
1992
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7
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Employee stock ownership and corporate performance among public companies | Blasi, JR. , Conte M., Kruse D | Indus. & Lab. Rel. Rev., |
1996
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8
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Employee stock ownership and employee attitudes: A test of three models. | Klein KJ, RJ Hall | Journal of Applied Psychology |
1987
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9
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How well is employee ownership working | Rosen, Corey | Harvard Business Review |
1987
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10
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Why Do Firms Adopt Profit-Sharing and Employee Ownership Plans? | Kruse, Douglas | British Journal of Industrial Relations |
1996
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The database for Amazon Books lists 1,350 books that are at least tangentially about "employee ownership.”[3] Amazon provides three sorting systems to identify notable books: Relevance (R), Sales (S) and Customer Rating (CR). Below is a list of books on employee ownership that ranked in the top 10 on one or more of these lists on June 15, 2011.
| S | CR | Title | Authors | Year | Publisher | |
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1
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Equity: why employee ownership is good for business | Rosen, CM, Case, J, Staubus, M. | 2005 | Harvard Business Press | ||
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2
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Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place | Abrams, J. and Greider, W. | 2008 | Chelsea Green Publishing | ||
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3
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8
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All Hands on Deck: 8 Essential Lessons for Building a Culture of Ownership | Tye, J. | 2010 | John Wiley & Sons | |
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4
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Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and Profit | Hams, B. | 2011 | McGraw Hill | ||
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5
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Shared Capitalism at Work: Employee ownership, profit and gain sharing, and broad- based stock options | Kruse, D, Freeman, RB, Blasi, J. R. | 2011 | University Of Chicago Press | ||
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6
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The ownership quotient: putting the service profit chain to work for unbeatable competitive advantage | Heskett, JL, Sasser, EW, Wheeler, J. | 2008 | Harvard Business School Pr | ||
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7
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An Introduction to ESOPs: How an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) can benefit your company, its owners, and its employees | Rodrick, S. | 2010 | National Center for Employee Ownership | ||
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8
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Participatory employee ownership: how it works: best practices in employee ownership | Logue J., Thomas, Cooper & Teodosio | 1998 | Worker Ownership Institute | ||
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9
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Incentive Compensation and Employee Ownership | Rodrick, S. | 2004 | National Center for Employee Ownership | ||
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10
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Employee Stock Ownership Plan Answer Book, 3rd Edition< | Howitt, IA, Rosen, C. | 2010 | Walters Kluwer | ||
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1
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The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor | Marks, H. | 2011 | Columbia Univ Pr | ||
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3
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Accounting for Value | Penman, S. | 2011 | Columbia Univ Pr | ||
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4
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The partnership charter: how to start out right with your new business partnership (or fix the one you're in) | Gage, D. | 2004 | Basic Books | ||
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7
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Stewardship. Choosing Service Over Self-interest, Berrett | Block, P. | 1993 | Koehler Publishers | ||
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1
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Beans Four Principles for Running a Business in Good Times Or Bad | Yerkes, L., Decker, C., Nelson, B. | 2003 | John Wiley & Sons | ||
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2
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Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track--and Keeping It There | McKeown, L. | 2010 | Greenleaf Book Group | ||
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4
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Discovering the soul of service: nine drivers of sustainable business success | Berry, L. L. | 1999 | Free Press | ||
| 9 | A stake in the outcome: Building a culture of ownership for the long-term success of your business | Stack, J, Burlingham, B | 2003 | Crown Business |
[1] Steven Freeman, Organizational Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, sff@sas.upenn.edu and Jacquelyn Yates, Kent State University jyates330@gmail.com
[2] “Employee Ownership Comprehensive Bibliographies and Database Update Project” a paper presented at the Beyster Symposium 2011, La Jolla CA.
[3] Many of the top 10 in Sales (S) and Customer Rating may have only mentioned "employee ownership, e.g. #2 on sales: Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara
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