Advances in the economic analysis of participatory and labor-managed firms / edited by Jed Devaro.

Includes bibliographical references.

Specialization, multiskilling, and allocation of decision rights / Hideo Owan -- The effect of multiskilling on labor productivity, product quality, and financial performance / Martin Farnham and Emma Hutchinson -- Teams, autonomy, and the financial performance of firms : new evidence from panel data / Jed DeVaro -- How do rules and costs affect a firm's setting of benefits? The case of health insurance and workforce skills / Nan L. Maxwell -- Majority ownership and chief executive compensation / Derek C. Jones and Niels Mygind -- Worker attitudes toward employee ownership, profit sharing and variable pay / Fidan Ana Kurtulus, Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blast -- Performance-related pay, unions, and productivity in Italy : evidence from quantile regressions / Mirella Damiani and Andrea Ricci -- Profit reinvestment in Italian worker cooperatives as a contribution to a common good : an empirical analysis on worker's perception and motivation / Cecilia Navarra -- Does training policy help to attract, retain, and develop valuable human resources? Analysis from the Mondragon case / Imanol Basterretxea and Eneka Albizu -- Governance and behavior in nonprofits : analysis of Uruguayan health care organizations / Juan Jose Barrios and Mieke Meurs -- Capitalism, economic democracy, and ecological destruction of our planet / Jaroslav Vanek -- The case for capitalism : a comment on Jaroslav Yanek's "Capitalism, economic democracy, and and ecological destruction of our planet" / Jed DeVaro and Adrian Stoian -- Rejoinder / Jaroslav Vanek.