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- Using Ownership as an Incentive: Does the
- Agency theory is used to develop hypotheses regarding the effects of ownership proliferation on firm performance. The article examines the effects of CEO ownership, executive team ownership, and all employee ownership, in addition to the moderating effect of risk, on firm survival and stock price. Firms with low CEO ownership...
- White papers
- SCORE Helps Energize Immigrant Entrepreneur's Energy Technology Dreams
- Jozef Gluszyk had overcome many challenges in his life - emigrating from Poland, learning a new language and culture, and tenaciously working his way into a career with an engineering company that served the petrochemical industry. But in 1998, he faced a difficult decision with few easy answers. Gluszyk's employer...
- Case studies
- Disenchanted Worker In Indianapolis, IN, Finds Niche In Franchise Ownership
- Lesley discovered Cookies by Design when her father received a gift cookie "Bouquet." It immediately appealed to her and she began to research ownership opportunities. Once Lesley paid a deposit on her franchise fee, she was up and running in a few months. But in the meantime, she had to...
- Case studies
- Foreign Ownership And Productivity: Is The Direction Of Causality So Obvious?
- This paper estimates the effect of foreign ownership on productivity in a very general setting where all potential endogeneity sources are controlled for. In particular the GMM-System estimator is applied to estimate TFP for a large sample of firms located in Italy. After controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, input simultaneity and...
- White papers 2005-08-23
- Active Ownership: Generating Better Returns in a Competitive Market
- Canada's private equity market continued to grow in 2004 and competitive pressures mounted. This paper reviews the competitive pressures Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs) are facing and how they might differentiate themselves in this challenging environment by being more actively involved as owners and partners. It describes the...
- White papers 2005-06-02
- Public Expectations of Nonprofit and for-Profit Ownership in American Medicine: Clarifications and Implications
- Policymakers, advocates, and scholars frequently make claims about how the American public sees ownership affecting the delivery of medical care. This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of how Americans think about nonprofit and for-profit ownership. It summarizes findings from surveys fielded between 1985 and 2000 and supplements them with findings...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Gifted Kids Or Pushy Parents?: Foreign Acquisitions And Plant Productivity In Indonesia
- There exists a vast empirical literature searching for the evidence of knowledge spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Implicit to this analysis lays the assumption that foreign ownership per se conveys some intangible advantage whose proximity can be beneficial to domestic firms. Yet there is no robust empirical confirmation that...
- White papers 2004-10-05
- So, Why Be Public?
- From the executive summary: ‘A public corporation, almost by definition, carries a fragmented set of owners. This continues to be one of its great advantages, as well as an unavoidable, structural weakness. Public ownership spreads the entrepreneurial risk inherent in any particular venture. And, it allows shareholders to diversify their...
- White papers 2004-04-14
- The Captive Ownership Option in Offshoring - Challenges & Opportunities
- Offshoring has reduced costs by as much as 50% while enhancing quality & satisfaction of customers. What role does ownership play in facilitating these benefits? This research summary provides an overview of some of the decision factors, challenges and opportunities for the wholly owned captive center ownership model. The key...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- IMF Conditionality And Program Ownership: A Case For Streamlined Conditionality
- Program conditionality and ownership are important considerations in the IMF’S current rethinking of program design. This article contributes by developing a theory of program conditionality and ownership based on Cumulative Prospect Theory. The policymaker may value a set of program, each with a fewer conditions, more than an extended program...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Retiring Owner
- As you begin to think about your retirement, you will be faced with the decision of making changes in the ownership of your company. At some point you will want to transfer ownership to another party which may include family members, key managers, employees, a strategic outside party or some...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Ownership and Motivation
- Article reviews that employee ownership can motivate employees and improve company performance, but only under certain conditions. The challenge is to determine what those conditions are as accurately as possible. If employee motivation is part of the answer, then one approach to this challenge is through organizational psychology. Leaders therefore...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- The Optimal Ownership of Insurance Companies
- The article begins with an overview of the theory of the firm as a means of determining the optimal ownership form. The next section offers an historical backdrop of the insurance industry that provides a setting within which to consider a review of the literature on the performance of mutual...
- White papers 2000-06-21
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- All For One And One For All
- From the executive summary: ‘Companies often adopt stock-ownership plans only after under performing, so they start out from behind. When companies do badly, that is when they open to do new things, such as adopting ownership guidelines. This may help explain why the movement towards holding requirements has tapered off,...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Taxation and the Evolution of Aggregate Corporate Ownership Concentration
- Legal rules, politics and behavioral factors have all been emphasized as explanatory factors in analyses of the determinants of the concentration of corporate ownership and stock market participation. An extension of standard tax clientele arguments demonstrates that changes in the progressivity of taxes can also significantly influence patterns of equity...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- International Stock Ownership as a Benefits Strategy
- A significant number of multinational corporations have implemented broad-based stock ownership arrangements extending to their foreign employees. As the number of countries in which a company maintains employees increases, the complexity of the stock ownership arrangement goes up as well. This overview discusses several issues arising in international stock ownership...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Government Ownership of Banks
- This paper, investigates a neglected aspect of financial systems of many countries around the world: government ownership of banks. The paper assembles data which establish four findings. First, government ownership of banks is large and pervasive around the world. Second, such ownership is particularly significant in countries with low levels...
- White papers 2000-02-01
- Home Ownership Education and Counseling Issues in Research and Definition
- Expanding home-ownership opportunities has been a major goal of American public policy for the past decade. This paper attempts to assess the knowledge about the effectiveness of home-ownership education and counseling and look at both problems and opportunities for future research. It also attempts to frame a series of definitions,...
- White papers 2002-11-05
- National Center For Employee Ownership
- The National Center for Employee Ownership is widely considered to be the leading authority in employee ownership in the U.S. and the world. Established in 1981 as a non-profit information and membership organization, it now has over 1800 members, including companies, professionals, unions, government officials, academics, and interested individuals. They...
- White papers 1997-07-01
- Increasing Effectiveness By Comparing I I
- Last year the Employee Ownership Program published findings of a study that demonstrated superior employment and growth among participatory employee ownership companies compared to a group of matched competitors. While indications were strong that employee ownership plus participation is a powerful combination, the study was not able to demonstrate how...
- White papers 1997-07-01
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