The Transition Process
Year:
2016
Conversion
What is Your Business Really Worth?
Year:
2014
The Lending Opportunity of a Generation: FAQs and Case Studies for Investing in Businesses Converting to Worker Ownership
Year:
2016
Ensuring Your Legacy: Succession Planning & Democratic Employee Ownership.
Year:
2016
Case Studies: Business Conversions to Worker Cooperatives
Year:
2015
Insights and Readiness Factors for Owners and Employees
- Business Readiness Factors: Help businesses figure out how ready they are, and how they can set themselves up for a smoother and more successful transition to worker ownership
- Motivations: Core reasons that business owners and employees decide to convert to a worker coop
- Typology of Conversions: Four different types of worker coop conversions based on the situation of the owners and its employees
- Case Studies: A dozen case studies of businesses that have converted to worker cooperatives
Industry Research Series: Craft Beer
Author(s):
Tim Palmer
Year:
2015
The Democracy at Work Institute has released the latest publication in the Worker Cooperative Industry Research Series, focusing on Craft Beer. The report examines the opportunities, challenges, and cooperative potential in the industry, which is still growing after more than two decades of upward trends. The success of Black Star Brewery and Pub Co-Op, as well as the ESOP-owned New Belgium Brewing Company provide models for replication and education.
A Brief Guide to Understanding Employee Ownership Structures
Author(s):
Camille Kerr
Year:
2015
This resource uses diagrams to depict how the different forms of employee ownership are structured. It focuses on the two primary vehicles for broad-based employee ownership in the United States: worker cooperatives and employee stock ownership plans.
Successful Cooperative Ownership Transitions: Case Studies on the Conversion of Privately Held Businesses to Worker Cooperatives
Author(s):
Courtney Berner, Michaela Holmes, Anne Reynolds, and Joe Rinehart
Year:
2015
The idea of selling a business to its employees and converting it to a worker owned cooperative is gaining traction as a viable succession strategy. It is a strategy that saves jobs, builds community wealth, and empowers workers to own and manage their own business. Worker cooperatives differ from other business entity types in that they are owned and democratically controlled by their workers, and workers share in the risk and reward of operating the business.
The Rural Succession Dilemma and the Cooperative Solution
Author(s):
Tim Palmer
Year:
2014
This research paper summarizes an examination of the National Establishment Time Series (NETS) dataset for North Carolina and Iowa to gauge the potential for conversions of existing businesses to worker cooperatives. The data demonstrate that the potential is quite large, and that even if only a fraction of these successfully converted to worker ownership and continued to operate at their last year levels, there would be meaningful economic impacts.
Becoming Employee-Owned
Author(s):
Camille Kerr, Joe Rinehart
Year:
2014
Becoming Employee-Owned is a guide for business owners interested in employee ownership. It provides an overview of the three primary transition approaches for employee ownership: worker cooperatives, ESOPs, and management buy-outs. Regardless of what stage the business is in--from expansion to succession planning-- this resource can help business owners understand their options for becoming an employee-owned company.
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