Employee participation, ownership, and productivity: A theoretical framework

Authors: Ben-Ner, Avner; Jones, Derek C.
Source: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
Year: 1995
Number of pages: 24

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Abstract:

A new conceptual framework to define and differentiate among diverse forms of employee ownership is developed. Two central rights associated with ownership, return and control rights, are identified. Their impact on individual motivation, individual performance, organizational structural variables and organizational performance is evaluated. We show how, over certain ranges of combinations of control and return rights, the relationship between alternative ownership arrangements and organizational performance may be nonlinear. The implications for the introduction of employee ownership and the evaluation of empirical work are considered.