...Carmen Marcuello Purpose The aim of this paper is to describe the main characteristics of het two most recognised models in Spain: worker cooperatives and worker-owned companies (Sociedades Laborales). Design/methodology/approach To this end, a review will be carried out of the main...

...Fathi Fakhfakh; Nathalie Magne; Thibault Mirabel; Virginie Pérotin Purpose France is the third country in Europe after Italy and Spain for the number of employee-owned firms, with some 2,600 worker cooperatives (SCOPs). The authors propose a comprehensive review of SCOPs and any barriers...

...Marco Lomuscio; Ermanno Celeste Tortia; Andrea Cori Purpose In Italy, worker cooperatives (WCs), whose workers hold major control rights over collectively-owned assets, are the leading vehicle for the promotion and development of employee ownership. Worker cooperatives are present in all regions...

...Sarah Reibstein; Laura Hanson Schlachter Purpose Worker cooperative practitioners and developers often claim that democratic worker ownership advances egalitarianism within and beyond the workplace, but most of the empirical evidence in the USA is based on ethnographic case studies or small-scale...

...Olga Prushinskaya; Jamie Pockrandt; Julian McKinley; Melissa Hoover Purpose As a part of the authors’ continued efforts to understand the experience and trends related to small business cooperatives, the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) and the Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI...

... by states. In France, the number of firm failures was 29% lower in 2020 than in 2019 for small businesses (Cros et al., 2020). When those state protections cease, the number of firms to be bought out must increase. Employee ownership Entry mode Worker cooperatives Firm survival Buyouts...

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