Shoring up against the silver tsunami small business crisis By Alison Lingane As employee ownership (EO) advocates search for effective ways to take EO to new heights, Project Equity in the Bay Area has pioneered a vital new method: begin in a city or region with an inventory analysis of businesses at risk of closure […]
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Some companies have learned to create good jobs for employees at every level of the organization, blue collar and white collar alike. By John Case Nearly every politician these days wants to create more jobs. And not just any jobs — good jobs. But what is a good job, and how does a company go about creating one? […]
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Performance Validation’s Journey By Richard Van Doel, Ph.D, President, Performance Validation On January, 2, 2018, Performance Validation (PV), a leading bio-technical, pharmaceutical and medical device industry contractor, became Indiana’s newest Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company. As the president of this company, I’d like to share how our experience in educating employees about employee ownership — even before […]
Continue ReadingThe Divine Right of Capital
by Majorie Kelly The Sacred Texts. The Principle of Worldview. In the worldview of corporate financial statements, the aim is to pay stockholders as much as possible, and employees as little as possible. More and more people have the sense today that the economic system is rigged. In fact, according to a Marketplace and Edison poll, […]
Continue ReadingGoverning: Jobs without Bribes
An editorial by Governing’s publisher Mark Funkhouser highlights the potential of employee ownership to create new, stable jobs without the use of state tax incentives or corporate giveaways. “A few jurisdictions are beginning to explore this alternative. Legislation was introduced in Wisconsin that, among other things, would provide a capital gains tax exemption for employee ownership; loans […]
Continue ReadingFifty by Fifty Year in Review
Strategies for Getting to 50 Million Employee Owners by 2050 By Marjorie Kelly As we wrap the second year of the Fifty by Fifty project — aimed at getting to 50 million worker owners by 2050 — we’re more convinced than ever that the time is right for strategic interventions to catalyze the employee ownership field to a much larger […]
Continue ReadingScaling Employee Ownership: Policies or Markets?
What comes first, public policies, institutions, or markets changes? By Sarah Stranahan Those of us seeking to advance employee ownership face a bewildering array of legislative initiatives and competing advocacy priorities. At last count, there were at least six Senate bills dealing with employee ownership. They range from Senate Bill 1082, which would create an […]
Continue ReadingA Cure for What Ails our Communities
By Anthony Mathews At the Beyster Institute at the University of California-San Diego, which is dedicated to studying and promoting employee ownership, I was part of an initiative about ten years ago to try to organize a work group with the humble goal of curing poverty in the U. S. We started from the assumption […]
Continue ReadingOwnership and Economic Democracy
Introducing Jason Wiener, P.C., a legal and consulting business for mission-driven companies. By Jason Wiener If the 18th century can be defined as the age of industrialization and competitive advantage of the nation state, the 19th century by the power of the corporation, and the 20th by corporate financialization, then, I believe, the 21st century […]
Continue ReadingThe Woman Aiming to Get 50 Million Americans Into the Worker-Owner Economy
And she has a plan to do it. This interview by Fran Korten originally appeared in Yes! Magazine For decades Marjorie Kelly has looked for ways that businesses can better contribute to the good of society. In 1987, after getting a master’s degree in journalism, she founded Business Ethics magazine to showcase socially responsible corporations. But after 20 years […]
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