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Contribution Details

Type Master's Thesis
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Is Employee Stock Ownership Irrelevant for Firm Performance?
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Christian Walther
Supervisors
  • Christoph Wenk Bernasconi
  • Alexander Wagner
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Faculty Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics
Number of Pages 63
Date 2022
Abstract Text The analysis of over 2000 listed European companies, representing almost all the European market capitalization, over the term of 14 years reveals some of the mechanics linking employee ownership to firm performance. With random effects regressions and propensity score matching the independent effects of employee ownership on firm performance are isolated. Outside of crisis periods, depending on the form of implementation of employee ownership, statistically significant improvements in company performance can be observed. Broad employee ownership tends to be preferable compared to deep ownership, as far as the two can be separated.
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