Building Employee Ownership at the Subnational Level

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Building employee ownership at the subnational level: international experience with state, regional, provincial, and city policies in the public and private sector to support the development of various forms of employee ownership. This includes both programs to support the development of more employee-owned firms at the micro level and those to support improving the performance of existing employee-owned firms through high performance management and workplace practices. This group will look as well at experience with developing training programs for employee ownership, both for non-managerial employees and management; local loan and equity funds for employee-owned companies; at employee-owned company networks, and joint institutions which they can develop, such as purchasing, sales, and export cooperations; and at the integrated employee-ownership support system like those in Mondragon and what is developing in Quebec.

Here too the goal is to identify best practices and spread them.

Should the project prove sufficiently successful to lead to further funding after this exploratory project, it would be our expectation that these facilitation and secretarial duties will be dispersed internationally, and that the individuals involved will be paid for their time.