Employee Ownership Blog

A new study reported on at the 2015 Rutgers Employee Ownership Fellows Program shows that companies advertising as employee-owned should have much more success in recruiting higher-skilled employees.

Korea has long had laws that provide incentives for companies and employees to buy shares in their companies, but a recent article in the Korea Times notes that the government recently a

Salisbury University recently updated its online guide of books, videos, and case studies on ESOPs, worker cooperatives, and other forms of inclusive capitalism.

Madison, Wisconsin, mayor Paul Soglin says his city will "not to be upstaged by New York City." New York has allocated $1.2 million to promote worker cooperatives, and Madison has now agreed to spend $1 million a year for the next five years to help develop promote worker-owned cooperatives.

The Conservative Cameron government in the United Kingdom has created a series of new incentives for broad-based employee ownership, including incentives for companies and business owners to use an ESOP-like mechanism to transfer ownership to employees in closely held companies.

Thank you to all who voted in the NCEO's board election. Please join us in welcoming our newest board members, whose terms will begin on April 1:

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) released its annual report on 401(k) plans, 401(k) Plan Asset Allocation, Account Balances, and Loan Activity in 2013.

A survey from Callan Associates shows that few large company sponsors of 401(k) plans intend to make major changes in company stock in their plans in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in the Fifth Third Banc v. Dudenhoeffer case.

A new study presented at the recent Employee Ownership Fellows Program at Rutgers University by Suzanne Cromlish at Case Western Reserve found that acquisitions of other companies by ESOP companies have been strikingly successful.

The Alabama Center for Employee Ownership and the NCEO are hosting "Is an ESOP Right for You?" in Huntsville, AL, on March 17, 2015, from 9:00am to 3:00pm.

Roughly three-quarters of the companies in China's A-share market (for companies with share prices denominated in Chinese renminbi) offer some form of equity compensation, but only four publicly traded state-owned enterprises have similar plans. That may be about to change.

The Center for Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania will again host "the first and only program anywhere formally addressing the relationship between the distinctive nature of ESOP companies and the effectiveness of leaders." The program consists of two week-long sessions (Ju