The Ownership Effect Inquiry:

What Does the Evidence Tell Us?

By Prof Joseph Lampel, Dr Aneesh Banerjee, Prof Ajay Bhalla

Introduction
To establish the contribution of employee ownership to the UK economy, and how it can contribute to the Government’s aim of raising productivity and standards of corporate behaviour, The Employee Ownership Association has launched the Ownership Effect Inquiry. Theobjective of this report is to provide for the Ownership Effect Inquiry a summary of the current research on employee ownership. The survey of the published literature will primarily focus on indicators of performance of employee-owned firms, comment on the recent developments in the policy environment relevant for employee ownership, and the main enablers and hurdles for the development of employee ownership.

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