Publications
Call for all major parties to seize the opportunity to promote worker ownership in election year
Date published: March 2024
A short paper calling on politicians to do more to support EO as the UK heads into an election year, the fourth and final briefing note in a series outlining the sector’s policy recommendations
Good employee ownership – a guide to effective & impactful practices in employee owned businesses
Date published: November 2023
A practical, interactive guide, allowing senior teams to explore the management practices that are most effective at supporting employee ownership in businesses similar to their own. Based on in-depth interviews with senior decision makers and employee owners and produced as part of the EO Knowledge Programme. (Please note – this guide works best when viewed on a laptop or computer).
Generation EO: The Great Employee Ownership Succession Opportunity
Date published: November 2023
A research paper quantifying the impact of a ‘large wave’ of Baby Boomer business owners exiting their companies in the next decade, and outlining how this translates to a generational opportunity to expand employee ownership in the UK.
Recognising the opportunity for increased employee and worker ownership in the UK
Date published: November 2023
A short paper trailing exciting new findings that show a huge opportunity is coming for policymakers to grow employee and worker ownership in the UK.
People powered growth
Date published: October 2023
An exploration of the rapid and impactful rise of employee and worker ownership in the UK. This report summarises the findings produced by WPI Economics in the in-depth study ‘Exploring the Potential of the Employee Ownership business model’, produced as part of the EO Knowledge Programme.
Exploring the potential of the Employee Ownership business model
Date published: October 2023
A deep dive into the economic, people, societal and environmental benefits of employee ownership, produced by WPI Economics with additional input from DJS Research.
Capitalising on the Impact of Employee and Worker Ownership
Date published: October 2023
A short paper trailing exciting new findings on the profound impacts of employee and worker ownership, and outlining the actions needed to capitalise on these.
Employee and Worker Ownership – Changing lives and livelihoods
Date published: April 2023
A short paper revealing newly published figures on the size of the employee and worker owned business sector in the UK. The paper also outlines the sector’s benefits, opportunities and current policy priorities.
How to Measure the Social and Environmental Impact of Employee Ownership
Date published: September 2022
A paper that aims to help employee owned businesses of all sizes and sectors attribute their social and environmental impacts to their ownership model.
Employee Ownership Trusts – In search of best practice
Date published: March 2022
A short study into the practical reality of introducing an EOT into a small business. The report highlights fresh insights into common and emerging good practice in businesses of 50 to 150 employees that adopted an EOT ownership model between 2017-2019.
A Shares for Debt Recovery Plan – Converting bounce-back loans into employee equity
Date published: May 2021
This paper argues that giving struggling companies the option to convert emergency bounce back loans into employee equity stakes will protect livelihoods, spur productivity and pave the way for a small business-led recovery.
Build Back Together – A recovery that works for everyone
Date published: September 2020
This paper argues that we must give employees a meaningful stake in future success to unlock the motivation needed to drive post-pandemic recovery and sets out initial thinking on how to rebuild a fairer economy.
Redesigning Work – Employee Owners Speak
Date published: July 2020
This paper sets out the employees’ perspective on how an ownership culture can make a business more adaptable, resilient and profitable over the longer term. These insights from successful employee owned firms showcase the benefits for any business of increasing employee engagement and responsibility, and offering a stake and a voice.
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A Partnership Fund For Jobs – How government can help small business cope with the crisis
Date published: June 2020
This report calls on the Government to implement plans that would let employees turn part of their pay into shares in the business where they work, with Government matching that sum via the British Business Bank.
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Redesigning the CEO – How employee ownership changes the art of leadership
Date published: March 2020
This report investigates how employee ownership changes the art of leadership. Authored by eminent business and management writer, Stefan Stern, the paper is based on a series of interviews with the leaders of ten employee owned businesses.
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Capital Partners – Why it’s time for finance and employee ownership to talk
Date published: October 2019
This paper highlights a huge missed opportunity for the UK’s financial institutions. It explores why so many employee owned firms say they can’t access the right finance – despite ticking all the right boxes for lending and investment.
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Equity for all – How a simple trust can spread ownership and wealth to millions
Date published: September 2019
This paper is a radical plan to encourage more companies to give employees a stake in the business in which they work that could create 1.5 million employee owners by 2030 and the biggest share out of wealth in a generation.
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