Rutgers SMLR 2024-25 Fellows

The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing has appointed its 2024-25 class of 30 research fellows. They are:

Andy (John) Anderson, Ford Foundation Fellow

• Jeff & Julie Hamilton / ESP International Associate Professor of Supply Chain and Logistics Management, Wilson College of Business, University of Northern Iowa
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Studying the geography, industry, and volume of cross-border investment in U.S. ESOP firms

Rob Brown, Executive Fellow

• Director of Business Ownership Solutions, Cooperative Development Institute
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Studying employee ownership buyouts of retiring business owners across multiple industries

Oliver Browne, Patrick J. McGovern Fellow

• Lecturer of Accounting, Cork University Business School, University College Cork (Ireland)
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Investigating the impact of ownership dispersion on agency costs and economic performance in UK Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs)

Katherine Chen, Faculty Fellow and Mentor

• Professor of Sociology, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, The City College of New York
• Qualitative Research: Conducting a content analysis of research on ESOPs, worker cooperatives, and other organizations using democratic practices

Victor Tan Chen, Faculty Fellow and Mentor

• Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Humanities and Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Qualitative Research: Conducting a content analysis of research on ESOPs, worker cooperatives, and other organizations using democratic practices

Adriane Clomax, Rutgers Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

• Rutgers Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
• Quantitative Research: Exploring the implications and impact of employee ownership on individual ownership, equity, and democracy

Andres Cuadros-Meñaca, Ford Foundation Fellow

• Assistant Professor of Economics, Wilson College of Business, University of Northern Iowa
• Quantitative Research: Investigating the impact of ESOPs on employment stability and subjective well-being

Jenny Everett, Corey Rosen Fellow

• Social Impact Advisor, Everett Interests; Senior Advisor, Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy (EO+WD); Co-Founder, Purpose Trust Ownership Network
• Qualitative Research: Studying the development of perpetual purpose trusts and related field-building efforts

Erik Forman, Nachson and Arieh Mimran to.org Fellow

• Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Anthropology, City University of New York–The Graduate Center
• Qualitative Research: Studying U.S. worker-owned platform firms and lessons from The Drivers Cooperative experience in New York City

Chris Griswold, Employee Ownership Foundation/Louis O. Kelso Fellow

• Policy Director, American Compass
• Qualitative Research: Conducting policy analysis of ESOPs

Geoff Gusoff, Corey Rosen Fellow

• Family Physician; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
• Qualitative Research: Studying the impact of home care cooperatives on home care worker job quality, care quality, and turnover

Anne-Sophie Halbertsma, Corey Rosen Fellow

• Junior Assistant Professor and Ph.D. Candidate, Entrepreneurship, Utrecht University School of Economics (Netherlands)
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Investigating how employee ownership positively interacts with the entrepreneurial process

Matt Helmer, Executive Fellow

• Managing Director, Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program
• Qualitative Research: Exploring how public policy and government systems can support the growth of employee ownership; studying the experiences of employee owners under different ownership models

Bex (Rebecca) Hewett, Bill and Connie Nobles Fellow

• Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Netherlands)
• Qualitative Research: Understanding the new paradigm of leadership and management oriented away from dominant hierarchical control

Judy Lundy, Bill and Connie Nobles Fellow

• Lecturer of Management, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University (Australia)
• Qualitative Research: Creating sustainable and thriving workplaces through developing freedom-based, inclusive leaders and workplace practices which seek to maximize benefits for individuals and organizations

Christopher Mackin, Ray Carey Fellow and 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

Anna-Lisa Miller, Executive Fellow

• Executive Director, Ownership Works
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Expanding employee ownership in corporations

Joseph Miller, Employee Ownership Foundation/Louis O. Kelso Fellow

• Marketing and Entrepreneurship Head and Associate Professor, Wilson College of Business, University of Northern Iowa
• Qualitative Research: Studying the relative benefits and constraints to maintaining service orientation within ESOP organizations; investigating how employee ownership affects sales strategy within ESOP organizations

Ana Nacvalovaite, Rutgers Research Fellow

• Research Fellow, Centre for Mutual and Co-owned Business, Kellogg College, University of Oxford (UK)
• Qualitative Research: Studying sovereign wealth fund investment in co-operatives, employee-owned businesses, and social enterprises

Siphelo Ngcwangu, Nachson and Arieh Mimran to.org Fellow

• Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Johannesburg (South Africa)
• Qualitative Research: Exploring the promise and perils of employee share ownership and trade union investment companies in promoting economic democratization and racial justice in South Africa

Laura Nicolae, J. Robert Beyster Fellow

• Ph.D. Candidate, Business Economics, Harvard Business School
• Quantitative Research: Studying how mandatory profit sharing at large firms in France affects their employment sensitivity to macroeconomic shocks

Erik Olsen, Employee Ownership Foundation/Louis O. Kelso Fellow

• Chair and Associate Professor of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Analyzing the evidence of ESOP research

So Ri Park, Rutgers Research Fellow

• Ph.D. Candidate, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
• Quantitative Research: Studying when employees choose to invest in their firms through Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPPs)

Loren Rodgers, Executive Fellow

• Executive Director, National Center for Employee Ownership
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Analyzing the evolution of employee ownership

Bo Rothstein, Faculty Fellow and Mentor

• August Röhss Chair Emeritus and Senior Researcher, Political Science, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
• Qualitative Research: Investigating the possible effects of employee-owned companies on work-related psychological illness

K. MacKenzie Scott, Employee Ownership Foundation/Louis O. Kelso Fellow

• Ph.D. Candidate, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Investigating implications for the frontline workforce in firms with shared ownership

Danny Spitzberg, Executive Fellow

• Researcher, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Analyzing worker-owned models for a State of California evaluation and report

Henri (Phan Huy Hieu) TRAN, Corey Rosen Fellow

• Assistant Professor of Finance and Director of MSc Corporate Finance and Investment Banking, Burgundy School of Business (France)
• Quantitative Research: Conducting a financial analysis of corporations with employee share ownership

Mila Turner, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellow

• Assistant Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Clark Atlanta University
• Qualitative Research: Studying employee ownership of African American businesses amidst early 20th-century labor movements

Marshall Vance, Joseph Cabral Distinguished Scholar and Fellow

• Associate Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, Pamplin School of Business, Virginia Tech University
• Quantitative Research: Investigating the feasibility of large-scale multi-year government research projects on employee share ownership