Employee Ownership News
Last call: A forum on the end of employee ownership at New Belgium
What does it say about the viability of market-based strategies that even the most integral moral commitment to worker equity ultimately could not stand up to economic and market pressures?
Nathan Schneider: Discarded Mutualisms
We should resist the temptation to mistake what is for what could or should be.
Erbin Crowell and Sonja Novkovic: ESOPs or Co-ops? Depends on the Long-Term Goal
While both co-ops and ESOPs are often included under the umbrella of “employee ownership,” this term has been largely appropriated by conventional economic thought that places the right to dispose of property at the center of ownership rights.
Melissa Hoover: Employee Ownership Often Helps to Shape and Build Hot New Markets—Then What?
Can lessons from New Belgium help us think differently about employee ownership in high-growth sectors?
Martin Staubus: New Belgium—A Success by Any Measure
Rumors of the death of employee ownership are greatly exaggerated.
Jason Wiener: Let’s Not Let the Ideal Be the Enemy of the Pretty-Darn-Great
We ought to celebrate instances of employee self-determination, including the right of employees to cash out and move on.
Jared Kaplan: The Sustainable Legacy of New Belgium Brewing
Sustainability isn’t the same as immortality, and it certainly doesn’t mean stagnation.
Employee Ownership and Ecological Sustainability
B Corp Champions Retreat Highlighted Employee Ownership
Fifty by Fifty joined mission-led employee-owned companies to shine spotlight on benefits of employee ownership.
The Role of Employee Ownership in an Economy that Works for All
Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard highlight movement for a democratic economy.
Two Publishers Illustrate Why Ownership Matters
Financial ownership vs. inclusive multistakeholder ownership leads to different outcomes for Jossey-Bass and Berrett-Koehler
Cities and states accelerating the employee-owned economy
Berkeley Revises Loan Requirements to Help Finance Employee Ownership
It will be easier for worker co-ops to acquire loans under the new policy of limited guarantees.
Employee Ownership as a Business Retention Strategy
For cities, employee ownership offers opportunity to retain local businesses.
The North Carolina Employee Ownership Center Launches
New resource to help baby boomer-owned businesses
with succession planning.
21st century models for employee ownership
Last call: A forum on the end of employee ownership at New Belgium
What does it say about the viability of market-based strategies that even the most integral moral commitment to worker equity ultimately could not stand up to economic and market pressures?
Can a Private Equity Fund Model Help Scale Employee Ownership?
Proposed model could provide a vehicle for investors to finance worker-centric employee ownership conversions.
Role of Capital in Taking Employee Ownership to Scale
At the Beyster Symposium, Fifty by Fifty panel explored a new financing model to scale employee ownership.
Getting to fifty million: scaling employee ownership
Berkeley Revises Loan Requirements to Help Finance Employee Ownership
It will be easier for worker co-ops to acquire loans under the new policy of limited guarantees.
Can a Private Equity Fund Model Help Scale Employee Ownership?
Proposed model could provide a vehicle for investors to finance worker-centric employee ownership conversions.
Employee-Owned Firms Should be Eligible for Minority Certification
Some simple requirements could ensure that employee-owned firms seeking certification are controlled by people of color.
Jennifer Briggs: New Belgium Was More than an ESOP
An ESOP in and of itself doesn’t create a company like New Belgium—it takes culture, too.
Matt Cropp: What is Expected of Employee Ownership?
Employee ownership was core to New Belgium’s identity, and their story offered an alternative model to many concerned by the corporate consolidation of the craft beer sector over the past few years.
Michael Keeling: ESOP Terminations—Red Flag?
As employee ownership advocates, we need to address why so many ESOP companies walk away from broad-based ownership.
Daniel Fireside: How Beeswax and Rope Can Save Your Company’s Soul
It turns out that there are plenty of investors and lenders happy to take a supporting role knowing that we’ve prevented ourselves from selling our company, and our mission, to the highest bidder.
Bret Keisling: New Belgium—A great story to tell
We should aspire for ESOP permanence, but not regard it as a failure when a great ESOP successfully transitions to a different structure.
Dave Hammer: Employee Ownership Must Become a Movement for Social Change
Employee ownership must become more than a community of practice, we must marshal our resources and become a movement for positive social change.
