The Polish edition of Equity: Why Employee Ownership Is Good for Business (Harvard Business School Press, 2005, updated for the Polish edition by Corey Rosen of the NCEO) has
An April 13 article in the North Bay Business Journal notes that three of the pioneering solar companies in the San Francisco Bay Area are at various stages in a journey
Broad-based employee ownership appears to be a very common practice in China, especially for divesting government-owned enterprises. But finding useful data or analyses of just how widespread the practice is or how it is structured is very difficult. A recent paper provides some clues.
More than half of the for-profit corporations on the Great Place to Work Institute's "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" list have broad-based employee ownership, a trait that frequently distinguishes the companies that appear on the San Francisco-based firm's annual list.
Eleven of the 50 winners of the Inc. 2011 Winning Workplaces awards either have ESOPs, provide broad-based stock options, or are worker cooperatives. Eight of the winners are NCEO members.
We encourage employee ownership companies with between 50 and 999 employees to apply for the Great Place to Work Institute's "50 Best Small and Medium-Sized Companies to Work for in America" list. This is the same organization that puts out the "100 Best Companies" list.
Companies with broad-based stock option plans, ESOPs, or other employee ownership arrangements accounted for 47 of the "Best 100 Companies in America to Work For," up from 31 last year. The list is published each year in Fortune (1/11/99; also available at at their Web site).
At least 31 of the 100 companies named as the "Best 100 Companies in America to Work For" have at least 10% of their stock owned by employees. The number is probably higher than this, however, as some of the companies may have broad ownership plans that we have not identified.
