Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership: Volume 6 Issue 2

Guest editorial: Introduction to special issue on overcoming the barriers for employee ownership part 1

Niels Mygind, Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse

Employee-owned firms in France

Fathi Fakhfakh, Nathalie Magne, Thibault Mirabel, Virginie Pérotin

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…

Worker cooperatives in Italy: legislation, prevalence and recent trends

Marco Lomuscio, Ermanno Celeste Tortia, Andrea Cori

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…

Employee ownership in Spain: worker cooperatives and sociedades laborales

Carmen Marcuello

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).

Country study on drivers and barriers for employee ownership: the case of MONDRAGON group

Saioa Arando-Lasagabaster, Beñat Herce-Lezeta

This article analyses how the MONDRAGON Group has overcome the barriers that the literature identifies in the creation of employee owned companies (Mygind and Poulsen, 2021), and…