Discussions

Browse the COG Working Group Discussions:

POLICY GROUPS

• Homestead: The "Fair Exchange / Industrial Homestead" project
• EOpriv: Employee ownership in privatization
• EOtrans: Broadening employee ownership transnationally
• EOnation: Building employee ownership at the national level
• EOsubnat: Building employee ownership at the subnational level
  
  
  OTHER GROUPS

• BROADENING OWNERSHIP THROUGH SOCIAL INSURANCE REFORM: The Social Insurance Reform group will discuss how public sector retirement programs, such as Social Security in the United States, might be reformed to increase ownership and control of firms by their employees and customers.
• EUROPEAN POLICY GROUP: What instruments should the European institutions implement as of now to promote the development of employee share ownership and participation and apply the PEPPER recommendations? What practical action can be taken at Community level? How and within what time frame?
• ESOP INDIA GROUP:The objectives of the ESOP India Group are to conceptualize, develop, study and analyze strategies for promoting employee ownership as a tool for achieving sustainable economic growth and a just and equitable distribution of economic wealth.
  
• ECONOMICS OF OWNERSHIP GROUP: This group's objective is to expand the number of economists who take a professional interest in issues of capital ownership.
  
• The ECONOMICS OF EMPOWERMENT GROUP is a discussion forum for participants who share the Statement of Shared Vision found below.
• The FISCAL POLICY ON EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP group analyses the practical effects of different tax policies towards employee share ownership. We wish to determine the most effective ways in which government can use the tax system to promote employee share ownership, while balancing against the need to maintain integrity in the system and fairness to all taxpayers.
  
• INTERNATIONAL MONDRAGON STUDIES ASSOCIATION - This working group focuses on the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation (MCC) group of manufacturing, financial, retail, civil engineering, service and support co-operatives at Mondragon in the Basque region of Spain
  
• MONETARY REFORM: While endeavouring to discuss all aspects of monetary reform, the Group invites all groups who want a fairer and better society, including a guaranteed income security for all, to press the Four Demands on government.
  
• SPANISH DISCUSSION GROUP: This group's objective is to discuss issues that are related to COG, but the discussants present their information in the Spanish language. A starting point for the discussion is the RORAC project. This project seeks to aid indigenous people with their problems of water irrigation and economic underdevelopment.
  
• RUSSIAN DISCUSSION GROUP: This group's objective is to discuss issues that are related to COG, but the discussants present their information in the Russian language. A starting point for the discussion is identifying the existing resources which support broadening ownership in Russia as well as existing obstacles.
• OPEN BOOK MANAGEMENT IN THE EDUCATION OF MANAGERS: Open Book Management, which leads to ownership culture, is rightly referred to as a new management philosophy. In fact, it is based on different anthropological assumptions. The main purpose of this group is to offer mutual support and exchange of experiences in introducing OBM to management schools and courses and carrying on OBM relevant research.
  
• ORGANISED LABOUR GROUP: The purpose of this group is to exchange practical experience of worker ownership and its impact on union organisation with labour representatives around the world. Does the worker ownership promise of increased local control and greater job security hold true under modern economic conditions? Can worker ownership be a viable alternative strategy to privatisation and corporate globalisation? Is worker ownership a threat or an opportunity to trade union organising?
• OWNERSHIP DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: This working group focuses on ownership strategies that can promote poverty reduction in developing countries. It has been established to encourage informed debate, exchange of information and consciousness-raising among scholars and within related academic disciplines and the wider community.