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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 ...
Intercooperation, flexicurity and their impacton workers: The case of Fagor Electrodomésticos
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Edgard Milhaud Foundation, 2021)
Mondragon cooperatives have used flexible employment, training and labour protection policies to deal with economic crises since the 1970s. These policies were also used in 2013 to alleviate the social consequences of the ...
Close to me. Intercooperation between Cooperative Retailers, Local Food Suppliers and Public Institutions to boost Regional Agrifood Systems. The case of Eroski
(CIRIEC-España, 2023)
[EN]This paper analyses the intercooperation between public administration, small agricultural producers and the supermarket cooperative Eroski in the Basque and Navarre to promote a local agrifood system. Through a case ...
Corporate governance as a key aspect in the failure of worker cooperatives
(SAGE, 2020)
The article analyses governance difficulties at Fagor Electrodomésticos, for decades the world’s
largest industrial cooperative, and sheds light on how the cooperative model and governance
might have contributed to the ...
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 ...