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Do Employee-Owned Firms Produce More Positive Employee Behavioural Outcomes? If Not Why Not? A British-Spanish Comparative Analysis
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017-06-07)
[EN]Whether ‘employee ownership’ takes the form of worker cooperatives, co-ownership or simply employee share ownership plans, there are normally high expectations that a range of positive outcomes will result. Yet many ...
Managing and resisting ‘degeneration’ in employee-owned businesses: a comparative study of two large retailers in Spain and the UK
(George Cheney, Iñaki Santa Cruz, Ana Maria Peredo and Elías Nazareno, 2014-09)
Employee-owned businesses have recently enjoyed a resurgence of interest as possible ‘alternatives’ to the somewhat tarnished image of conventional investor-owned capitalist firms. Within the context of global economic ...
Does training policy help to attract, retain and develop valuable human resources? Analysis from the Mondragon case
(2014-10-31)
Purpose - The aim of this article is to ascertain the degree to which a training policy developed through corporate training centers is recognized as a source of competitive advantage for attracting, developing and retaining ...
Types of embedded ties in buyer-supplier relationships and their combined effects on innovation performance
(Emerald, 2016-01)
[EN] Purpose of the paper - This research analyzes the impact of three types of embedded ties, namely, specialized complementary resources, idiosyncratic investments, and knowledge sharing, on the innovation capacity of ...
Collaborative relationships with customers: generation and protection of innovations
(Emerald, 2017)
[EN]Purpose: To discover the key elements for generating and protecting innovations based on the customer‐supplier relationship in industrial sectors Methodology: Exploratory qualitative study performed using semi‐structured ...
Coopetition and innovation. Lessons from worker cooperatives in the Spanish machine tool industry
(Emerald, 2019)
[EN] Purpose –
This paper aims to investigate how the implementation of the inter-cooperation principle
among Spanish machine-tool cooperatives helps them to coopete–collaborate with
competitors, in their innovation and ...
Mediation effects of trust and contracts on knowledge-sharing and product-innovation: evidence from the European machine tool industry
(Emerald, 2018)
[EN] This paper analyzes the mediating role of contracts and trust on the generation of
product innovations stemming from buyer-supplier knowledge-sharing among the
members of the supply chain. Together with the individual ...
Do Co-ops Speak the Managerial Lingua Franca? An analysis of the Managerial Discourse of Mondragon Cooperatives
(© 2016 Elsevier LtdElsevier, 2016)
[EN] A trend towards conventional managerialism has been identified in cooperative organizations,
and it has been suggested that this is a symptom of the phenomenon of degeneration in
cooperatives. Although managerial ...
Can employee ownership and human resource management policies clash in worker cooperatives? Lessons from a defunct cooperative
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019-02-20)
[EN] The article analyzes the interaction between employee ownership, HRM policies and practices and
HRM outcomes in the world‘s biggest industrial worker cooperative for decades and now defunct
Fagor Electrodomésticos. ...