Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms

• Format: eBook Publication
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011; Emerald
• Edition: 1st ed
• Series: Advances in the economic analysis of participatory & labor-managed firms
• Subjects: Arbeitsorganisation; Mitbestimmung; Rechtsform; Selbstverwalteter Betrieb; Unternehmenserfolg; Unternehmensplanung; Welt
• ISBN: 9780857247599; 085724759X; 0857247603; 9780857247605
• ISSN: 0885-3339
• DOI: 10.1108/S0885-3339(2011)12

This 12th edition of Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms contains a stimulating collection of original papers spanning a wide variety of topics. Part 1 of the volume contains three papers on the subject of job design and organizational performance, covering the determinants of multiskilling from a theoretical perspective and also the empirical effect of multiskilling and teams on financial performance. Part 2 of the volume concerns compensation, worker attitudes, and productivity. Papers in this section cover the effect of rules and costs on employer-provided health insurance, majority ownership and executive compensation, worker attitudes towards different forms of employee ownership and variable pay, and an analysis of performance-related pay, unions, and productivity in Italy. Part 3 contains three studies of worker cooperatives and nonprofit organizations in Italy, Spain, and Uruguay. The volume concludes with a debate on free trade and the ecological effects of alternative socio-economic systems.