New Study on Why Democratic ESOPs Sometimes Fail

A new study by the Ohio Employee Ownership Center indicates that employee control of companies at the board level does not account for the cases where these companies have failed.

New Study Sheds Light on Executive Compensation vs. Shareholder Return

In their new study, "Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, and Strategic Human Resource Management from 1992-2002," Joseph Blasi and Douglas Kruse of Rutgers University analyzed compensation for the top five executives and corporate performance in the 1,500 largest U.S.

New Study Shows Broad-Based Stock Option Plans Improve Performance

One of the most comprehensive and convincing studies to date on the effect of broad-based option plans on company performance was released in November. Yael V. Hochberg of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Laura Lindsey at the W. P.

New Study Shows Continued Decline in Options Use

While "Realities of Executive Compensation, 2006/2007," a new study from Watson Wyatt, focuses on executive compensation issues, the report also contains important findings on the use of options generally in large public companies.

New Study Shows Employee Ownership Companies More Stable

A new study by Margaret Blair of the Brookings Institution and Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi of Rutgers University shows that publicly traded companies that are at least 20% owned by employees are more organizationally stable than non-employee ownership companies.

New Study Shows Employees Still Value Options

In the most comprehensive study to date on employee attitudes towards stock options, Gerry Ledford, Matthew Lucy, and Peter LeBlanc of Sibson Consulting have found that stock options appear to be a very powerful employee benefit.