2024 Rutgers-Oxford Employee Ownership Symposium Recap

Second Annual
Rutgers–Oxford Employee Ownership Research Symposium

August 29 – 30, 2024

Kellogg College, 60-62 Banbury Road Oxford University

Overview

The purpose of the symposium is to assemble an interdisciplinary collection of global scholars and practitioners to present new theoretical and empirical writing and research on employee share ownership and profit sharing, and to encourage ongoing academic discussions and collaboration.

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2024 Symposium Research 

USA Research

• Blasi, Joseph - Federal Data and Data Sets on Employee Ownership
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Kurtulus, Fidan – Employee Share Ownership, Management Practices, and Firm Outcomes in U.S. Manufacturing
  Presentation
• Kruse, Doug and Schur, Lisa – Employee Ownership for Union Workers: Prevalence and Effects
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Aran, Yifit  –  The RSU Time Bomb: Regulating Startup Equity Compensation in the Unicorn Era
  Paper   |   Presentation

European Research

• Halbertsma, Ann-Sophie – Employee Ownership in SMEs in the Netherlands
  Presentation
• Aubert, Nicolas – Determinants of EO stock adoption by French SMEs
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Duverger, Timothee - The Role of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Corporate Reform in France
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Mirabel, Thibault – Employee Stock Ownership Funds: Reducing Wealth Inequalities in France, Equalis Capital
  Paper   |   Presentation

EOTs Theory and Research

• Banerjee, Aneesh – Why do Founders Choose to Exit via Employee Ownership? A Comparative Analysis of Employee-owned Businesses in the UK
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Nuttall, Graeme and Hoffmire, John – Comparing EOTs and ESOPs
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Major, Guy and Preminger, Jonathan – Value-Added sharing to Promote EOTs and Investment
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Hand, Mark – Purposeful Succession: How Owners Can Use Purpose Trusts to Lock in Legacy and Foster Rural Community Resilience
  Paper

Theory & Practice - Theory

• Ellerman, David – A Critical Analysis of Different Forms of Employee Ownership
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Rothstein, Bo – Employee Ownership and the Case for Liberal Socialism
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Sente, Christophe – Painting a Bigger Picture: Resisting Insularity When Democratizing Firms
  Paper
• Palmieri, Michael – Exploring the Economic Benefits of Employee Ownership
  Paper   |   Presentation

Research on Practice I

• Albanese, Marina – Worker Cooperatives and Environmental Awareness
  Paper
• Cox, Robynn – Quality Employment, Capital Ownership, and the Racial Wealth Gap: The Case of ESOP Employment
  Presentation
• Pendleton, Andrew – Employee Ownership and Attitudes: The Role of Selection Effects
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Fakhfakh, Fathi – Sustainable Innovations in French Worker Cooperatives
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Jones, Derek – Employee-Owned Firms and Support Organizations: Are We There Yet?
  Paper   |   Presentation

Research on Practice II

• Goldstein, Daniel – Transitioning over time from Family-Owned to Employee-Owned: The Serial Transaction Approach
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Oldham, Simon – Cooperative Social Responsibility Research: Mapping the Field and Shaping the Future
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Fang, Tony – Employee Ownership and Promotive Voice
  Paper   |   Presentation
• Rothenberg, Delilah – Scaling Shared Ownership for Institutional Investment
  Presentation