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What Is Open-Book Management? Open-book management has been called the most important management trend in the country. Definitions of open-book management vary, but it is generally accepted to include the following components:

Broad-based employee ownership plans, primarily employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and worker-owned cooperatives, are a bipartisan, effective means to help create an economy that is both more productive and more able to provide financial security for workers in all sectors of the economy.

There has been increasing interest in employee ownership in state legislatures. This article describes existing state employee ownership legislation and key pending bills.

There has been increasing interest in employee ownership in state legislatures. This article describes existing state employee ownership legislation and key pending bills.

Incentive stock options (ISOs) can be an attractive way to reward employees and other service providers.

On average, ESOPs are wins for everyone—sellers, employees, and the company itself—but the average is pulled up by a handful of stellar ESOP companies.

To get the tax benefits employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) provide, companies must abide by the rules designed to make sure taxpayers are getting their money's worth.

Business owners who want to generate liquidity for their ownership interests often look at selling to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) as the most attractive mechanism.

A commonly distressing experience for owners in a company with an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is that the price of the business as a whole is not the price the ESOP will actually pay.

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