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

Jed DeVaro

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9780857247599

20 September 2011

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20 September 2011

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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. This volume concludes with a debate on free trade and the ecological effects of alternative socio-economic systems.

List of Contributors. Foreword. Introduction. Specialization, Multiskilling, and Allocation of Decision Rights. The Effect of Multiskilling on Labor Productivity, Product Quality, and Financial Performance. Teams, Autonomy, and the Financial Performance of Firms: New Evidence from Panel Data. How do Rules and Costs Affect a Firm's Setting of Benefits? The Case of Health Insurance and Workforce Skills. Majority Ownership and Chief Executive Compensation. Worker Attitudes Toward Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing and Variable Pay. Performance-Related Pay, Unions, and Productivity in Italy: Evidence from Quantile Regressions. Profit Reinvestment in Italian Worker Cooperatives as a Contribution to a Common Good: An Empirical Analysis on Workers' Perception and Motivation. Does Training Policy Help to Attract, Retain, and Develop Valuable Human Resources? Analysis from the Mondragon Case. Governance and Behavior in Nonprofits: Analysis of Uruguayan Health Care Organizations. Capitalism, Economic Democracy, and Ecological Destruction of Our Planet. The Case for Capitalism: A Comment on Jaroslav Vanek's “Capitalism, Economic Democracy, and Ecological Destruction of Our Planet”. Rejoinder. Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms. Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms. Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms. Copyright page.