Employee Ownership - A Comparative Analysis of Growth Performance

Jaroslav Vanek, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York: "Ever since De Tocqueville, Europeans have provided valuable insights on American Phenomena. Worker Ownership and the ESOP are an important recent phenomenon in the United States, and Gorm Winther has produced a study of them which people both in Europe and America will appreciate. It may well be one day a stepping stone to full Economic Democracy."

Corey Rosen, The National Center of Employee Ownership, Oakland, California: "Several years ago, along with Michael Quarrey and Katherine Klein, I conducted research that provided the first Causal evaluation of what, if any, relationship existed between employee ownership and corporate performance. We found that the combination of ownership and employee participation in decision making had a dramatic impact on performance that neither variable had on its own. Gorm Winther a Danish visiting scholar to the US is the first to reevaluate these findings with different samples and in a more detailed way than we were able to do....this is not just research for the intellectually curious, this is research that will put to practical use on a large scale."

Cover Illustration: Peder Nyman

Aalborg University Press ISBN 87-7307-503-5

https://www.amazon.com/Employee-Ownership-Comparative-Performance-Development/dp/8773075035 

Gorm Winther and Richard Marens: Participatory Democracy May Go a Long Way: Comparative Growth Performance of Employee Ownership Firms in New York and Washington States, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1997

https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X97183003

Gorm Winther: Theory O-Is the Case Closed?, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Volume 20, Issue 2, 1999 

https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X99202006