Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path to Engaged Employee Ownership

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Shared Entrepreneurship: Toward an Ethical, Dynamic, Empowering, Freedom-Based Process of Collaborative Innovation....Pages 7-26
Shared Leadership: The Do’s and Don’ts in Shared Entrepreneurship Enterprises....Pages 27-42
Shared Governance: Structures and Processes....Pages 43-56
Innovation through Shared Entrepreneurship....Pages 57-77
Culture in Shared Entrepreneurship Firms....Pages 79-96
Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path Forward....Pages 97-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
SRC Holdings: Winning the Game while Sharing the Prize....Pages 111-131
Herman Miller: Unrelenting Pursuit of Reinvention and Renewal....Pages 133-158
Equal Exchange: Doing Well by Doing Good....Pages 159-177
TEOCO (The Employee Owned Company): Principled Entrepreneurship and Shared Leadership....Pages 179-208
HCSS: Employee Ownership and the Entrepreneurial Spirit....Pages 209-230
MBC Ventures, Inc.: An ESOP with a Union Partner....Pages 231-250
KCI Technologies, Inc.: Engineering the Future, One Employee at a Time....Pages 251-265
W. L. Gore & Associates: Developing Global Teams to Meet Twenty-First-Century Challenges....Pages 267-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-295