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A Better Way of Doing Business?
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Description
The US/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder value and its openness to the market in the buying and selling of businesses, is prone to a number of problematic consequences for employees, suppliers, and sometimes share-holders. The JLP represents a contrast to this model - one that has implications beyond the small niche of mutually-owned firms. The JLP has lessons for organizations that are unlikely to move towards the Partnership's distinctive shared ownership. This bookidentifies these lessons.
The key questions addressed include: how does the JLP work in practice? What is the link between co-ownership, the JLP employment model, and the performance of the businesses? What is the role of management in the success of John Lewis and Waitrose? Are mutuality, co-ownership and business performance at odds? What is the significance of democracy within the JLP? And probably most significantly: what are the implications, for policy-makers and for economic agents of the JLP? This book is basedon detailed knowledge of the JLP and its constituent business gathered by the authors over a fifteen year period. Their conclusion: that the JLP is more complex, even more impressive, and more interesting than its admirers realise.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2016-10-05
Publication Date:
2011-03-10
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0198782829
ISBN13:
9780198782827
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Weight:
543 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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