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Where employee ownership works best

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  • Colin Birkhead
  • Noah Gibson
  • Mark C. Hand

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Researchers have primarily looked within organisations to identify factors for the effectiveness of broad-based employee share ownership (ESO). To date, the community-level determinants of success for ESO firms have been overlooked. This paper examines the relationship between community-level generalised exchange and the prevalence of ESO firms and their survival in California between 2009 and 2019. We contribute to the literature on ESO in the following ways: first, we argue that broad-based employee-owned firms operate on the basis of generalised exchange; second, we find that ESO firms are more common in places that exhibit more generalised exchange; and finally, we find that ESO firms that operate in communities with high generalised exchange enjoy better survival rates.

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  • Colin Birkhead & Noah Gibson & Mark C. Hand, 2025. "Where employee ownership works best," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(2-3), pages 366-378, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:irapec:v:39:y:2025:i:2-3:p:366-378
    DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2024.2410227
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