In Santa Paula, construction workers are building more than infrastructure, they’re building company ownership.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mary Josephs is an expert in business ownership transitions. Accept this piece of candid counsel: If you commonly hate getting out ...

Nona demystifies Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) from a business owner’s perspective. She breaks down what an ESOP is (and what it’s not), who can implement one, and how these plans can create ...

Employee ownership is gaining traction and fast. Much of that momentum can be credited to KKR executive Pete Stavros and his nonprofit organization, Ownership Works. It has brought widespread ...

Arkansas-based Lexicon Inc. announced Thursday (Jan. 22) it has become an employee-owned company through the establishment of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The decision follows a ...

Speaking at the International Design Conference in Aspen in June 1983, the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder fielded a question about giving workers a stake in the company and used it to walk the ...

Research shows that employee-owned firms do better during recessions and other crises than traditional companies. Workers are more loyal, agreeing to innovate and cut costs, while management is more ...

That’s the question at the heart of employee ownership. It’s not just a perk to lure talent. It’s a fundamentally different way of building a business, and one that might just be the key to long-term ...

Recent surveys show that nearly half of all Americans have no retirement savings. Employee ownership is presented as a bipartisan solution to address the retirement crisis and wealth disparity. This ...

Employees participating in an ESOP receive shares in the company. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us when you take certain actions ...

Editor’s note: Corey Rosen is the founder of the National Center for Employee Ownership in California, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing authoritative information on broad-based employee ...

Speaking at the International Design Conference in Aspen in June 1983, the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder fielded a question about giving workers a stake in the company and used it to walk the ...