Rutgers SMLR 2023-24 Fellows

The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing has appointed its 2023-24 class of 33 research fellows. They are:

Adrianto, Employee Ownership Foundation Louis O. Kelso Fellow

• Ph.D. Candidate, Business Administration, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
• Quantitative Research: Using advanced web scraping data collection to compare ESOPs to conventional firms in terms of compensation, benefits, and job quality 

Courtney Berner, Executive Fellow

• Executive Director, University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
• Qualitative Research: Studying the development and dynamics of worker cooperatives

Vipul Bokil, Institute Fellow

• Ph.D. Candidate, Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
• Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Analyzing retiring business owners’ response to the employee ownership buyout alternative in the City of Pittsburgh

David Bright, Executive Fellow

• International Coordinator, Democratic Ownership Matters, a network of practitioners and organizations on employee ownership | Head of Funding and Learning, The Church of England
• Qualitative Research: Studying the development of collaboration among employee ownership practitioners and organizations worldwide

Dylan Cooper, Robert W. Edwards Fellow

• Associate Professor, Department of Management, California State University Channel Islands
• Experimental Quantitative Study: Testing how employee ownership information in recruitment messages affects job seekers’ attraction to companies

Sean Geobey, The Social Capital Partners Fellow

• Associate Professor, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), University of Waterloo (Canada)
• Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Studying whether it’s more accurate to estimate the value of an enterprise based on its employees than on its investors

Daniel Goldstein, Executive Fellow

• Retired CEO, Folience Inc.
• Qualitative Research: Analyzing emerging ESOP issues

Tej Gonza, Nachson and Arieh Mimran to.org Fellow

• Ph.D. Candidate and Assistant Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana | Managing Director, Institute for Economic Democracy (Slovenia)
• Qualitative Research: Analyzing Slovenian ESOP Legislation 2023/2024 to determine policy options for ESOP-type legislation in Slovenia and other EU countries

Joo Hun Han, Rutgers Research Fellow

• Associate Professor, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Business School (South Korea)
• Quantitative Research: Analyzing the General Social Survey from 2002-2022 for The Shares Laboratory of the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing

Julian Hill, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellow

• Assistant Professor, George State University College of Law | Affiliated Faculty, Africana Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, Georgia State University
• Qualitative Research: Analyzing characteristics that can lead to the development of strong worker cooperative systems and worker coops in the Atlanta metropolitan area

John Hoffmire, Faculty Fellow and Mentor

• Research Associate, Kellogg College Centre for Mutual and Co-owned Business, University of Oxford (UK)
• Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Studying the development and dynamics of employee ownership

Melissa Hoover, Institute Fellow

• Senior Fellow, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
• Qualitative Research: Studying the development and dynamics of employee ownership

Eric Hoyt, Institute Fellow

• Assistant Professor, Economics, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Stockton University
• Quantitative Research: Comparing ESOPs and non-ESOP companies using the U.S. Census Management Operations Practices Survey linked to the EEOC database and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service dataset

Oyindamola A. Ijewere, W. K. Kellogg Foundation Fellow

• Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.), Wilmington University | Manager, Project Equity
• Qualitative Research: Analyzing interviews with retiring African American business owners in South Florida regarding potential employee ownership buyouts

Esteban Kelly, Executive Fellow

• Executive Director, United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives
• Qualitative Research: Studying the development of worker cooperatives

Biko Koenig, Institute Fellow

• Assistant Professor, Government and Public Policy, Franklin & Marshall College 
• Quantitative and Qualitative Research: Leading a three-year investigation of entrepreneurial support organizations that assist cooperatively owned enterprises and the related policy landscapes that structure this work

Fidan Kurtulus, J. Robert Beyster Fellow

• Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst | Senior Fellow, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
• Quantitative Research: Comparing ESOPs and non-ESOP companies using the U.S. Census Management Operations Practices Survey linked to the EEOC database and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service dataset

Jegoo Lee, Institute Fellow

• Assistant Professor of Management, College of Business, University of Rhode Island 
• Quantitative Research: Using GSS data, in-depth interviews, and an original survey to analyze whether employee stock ownership influences the psychological wellbeing and mental health of employees

Christopher Mackin, Ray Carey Fellow | Abby Rockefeller Fellow

• Senior Fellow, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing | Member of the Faculty, Harvard Trade Union Program, Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School
• Qualitative Research: Analyzing employee ownership policy

Brendan Martin, Executive Fellow

• Co-Founder and Co-Director, Seed Commons, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)
• Qualitative Research: Studying the financing of worker cooperative employee buyouts

Svetlana Masjutina, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellow

• Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Qualitative Research: Investigating the cost-effectiveness and larger economic impact of worker cooperatives on the U.S. childcare industry

Joost Minnaar, Bill Nobles Fellow

• Ph.D. Candidate, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Qualitative Research: Conducting case studies and writing theoretical papers on how “large flat organizations” overcome the challenges of scale in less hierarchical organizing

Jack Moriarity, Executive Fellow

• Assistant Director for Policy Analysis, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing | Executive Director, Lafayette Square Foundation
• Qualitative Research: Analyzing employee ownership policy

Andrew Pendleton, Nachson and Arieh Mimran to.org Fellow

• Professor of Employee Ownership and Reward, School of Management and Governance, University of New South Wales (Australia)
• Quantitative Research: Studying the incidence, genesis, operation, and outcomes of employee shareholder associations found in some European companies with employee stock purchase plans

Ida Rademacher, Executive Fellow

• Vice President, The Aspen Institute | Executive Director, Aspen Financial Security Program | Co-Chair, The Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy
• Qualitative Research: Investigating citizen wealth-building

Sarah Reibstein, Nachson and Arieh Mimran to.org Fellow

• Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, Barnard College | Instructor, Sociology, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
• Qualitative Research: Studying the dynamics of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend

Delilah Rothenberg, Executive Fellow

• Co-Founding Partner and Executive Director, The Predistribution Initiative
• Qualitative Research: Studying a multi-stakeholder effort to improve investment structures to share more wealth and influence with workers and communities

Emre Sahin, Rutgers Research Fellow

• Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, Reno 
• Qualitative Research: Studying women's and mixed-gender cooperatives

Adria Scharf, Joseph Cabral Distinguished Scholar and Fellow | The Elias Foundation Fellow

• Associate Director, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing | Lecturer, Department of Human Resource Management and Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations
• Qualitative Research: Investigating the reasons for the non-adoption of ESOPs

Zoe Schlag, Executive Fellow

• Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Common Trust, a non-profit organization on employee ownership trusts
• Qualitative Research: Studying the development of employee ownership trusts

Katherine Sobering, Faculty Fellow and Mentor

• Associate Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of North Texas
• Qualitative Research: Studying worker cooperatives

Marcelo Vieta, The Social Capital Partners Fellow

• Associate Professor, University of Toronto Program in Adult Education and Community Development, Department of Leadership and Higher and Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (Canada)
• Qualitative Research: Conducting comparative country case studies of business conversions to co-operatives

Jason Wiener, Executive Fellow

• Legal expert on employee ownership | Founder, Main Street Phoenix Project | Member, Colorado Governor’s Employee Ownership Commission
• Quantitative Research: Analyzing the legal frameworks for employee ownership and state and federal employee ownership public policy