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In one of the largest studies on ESOPs ever, two academics compared ESOPs to diversified plans.

In their paper "Do Non-Executive Employees Have Information?

In the book How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Last Two Recessions?, co-authors Fidan Kurtulus and Douglas Kruse explore new data about job stability at employee ownership companies during the Great Recession. Dr.

New research by Stephen Smela at the University of Minnesota shows that companies in the West North Central U.S.

At our 2011 annual conference on employee ownership in April, Richard Freeman of Harvard University and Joseph Blasi of Rutgers presented new research on employee stock plans done with their colleague Doug Kruse of Rutgers.

New research released on October 19, 2023 on employee ownership in the United Kingdom – the People Powered Growth Report – suggests the UK’s employee ownership sector is outperforming the UK’s national productivity while contributing to several meas

A new analysis of employee ownership by industry shows the similarities and contrasts between ESOP companies and worker cooperatives.

In a December 13 article in the online Harvard Business Review, Alex Bryson (University College London) and Richard Freeman (Harvard University) note that "Since the mid-2000s, broad-based shared capitalist programs — in other words, programs where firms offer profit sharing and employee ownershi

A new report from PLANSPONSOR magazine shows that ESOP companies are more likely than non-ESOP companies to offer secondary defined contribution and defined benefit plans. They are also are substantially more likely to offer health savings accounts (HSAs).

Fidelity released a new study on December 12 that described the ways that participants in employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs) used