Filling the Vacuum in New Management Practice? Lessons from US Employee-Owned Firms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4895182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Wills (0000-0002-5123-0207, University of Southampton, corresponding author), Andrew Lincoln (0000-0002-2334-7088, University of Southampton) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1497-1512 |
| Publication date | 1999-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a311497 |
| OpenAlex | W2090258911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
In this paper we explore the way in which Anglo-American capitalism is evolving to meet the competitive challenges of a global economy. A wide range of scholars, policymakers, and business leaders now argue that the post-Fordist economy requires greater levels of employee involvement, participation, and empowerment, and a new set of management practices have been developed to secure this new culture of work. In this paper we explore these developments and point to the different ways in which terms such as involvement, empowerment, participation, and partnership can be mobilised in the workplace. Moreover, research suggests that new management practices and cultures of work have evolved in different ways across space, crafting an uneven geography of new management practice. In this regard, we look at the ways in which some employee-owned firms in Ohio, America, have been the arena for considerable managerial experiment in fostering employee participation. Although we acknowledge the limitations of employee ownership, empirical material from two majority employee-owned firms illustrates the way in which employees have been able to take a greater role in the business. Employee ownership is much further advanced in the United States than the United Kingdom, and there is scope for building on US experiences in the United Kingdom
Business · Capitalism · Economic growth · Economics · Employee engagement · Empowerment · General partnership · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Engineering · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Marketing
The Work of Nations
Choosing sides
Unions and Communities under Siege
Farewell to the Factory
Local Labour Control Regimes
A Stake in Place? The Geography of Employee Ownership and its Implications for a Stakeholding Society
Market Rules and Territorial Outcomes
Production without Empowerment
Works Councils
Keeping the Red Flag Flying? A Comparative Study of Two Worker Takeovers in the British Deep Coalmining Industry, 1992-1997
Using Ownership to Control
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2002 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |