Rutgers Appoints 22 New Fellows to Study Employee Ownership

The School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University announced the names of the 22 new research fellows who will be studying broad-based employee stock ownership and profit sharing as part of an academic fellowship program funded by J. Robert Beyster, Mary Ann Beyster, the Employee Ownership Foundation, and other donors. The new appointments bring the total number of fellows above 70. The fellows, whom SMLR Dean Susan Schurman describes as "economists, finance experts, human resources scholars, industrial relations scholars, sociologists, philosophers, political scientists, historians, psychologists, anthropologists, and others," will address topics such as technology startups, risk management in retirement accounts, productivity, poverty, political contributions, and the role of individual choice in European ownership plans. The full list of scholars and their research areas is available on the Rutgers Web site. The NCEO's Corey Rosen is a faculty fellow and mentor to the fellows, and Ariana Levinson, the Corey Rosen Fellow, is studying potential legal reforms relevant to worker cooperatives.