Beyond the Corporation
Humanity Working
$63.16
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2011
Summary
A blueprint for the 21st-century business: where employees share ownership, information and profits of the businesses where they work.
Beyond the Corporation is a book for our times. Offering inspiration and vision in the wake of financial Armageddon, it is the story of ordinary people who share the ownership of the businesses where they work.
The enterprises come in all sizes: from companies employing just a few dozen people, to large corporations: John Lewis in the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847921093 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1847921094 |
| Author: | David Erdal |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Bodley Head Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 377g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 153mm x 234mm |
Critics Review
“Erdal’s interviews…are informative and brilliantly underscore the author’s message.” – Publishers Weekly.com
This is by far the best book to explain democratic employee ownership to business people and to the owners of family firms who might be considering a sale to the employees. David Erdal has “walked the walk” by arranging for the successful sale of his large family business to the employees so he speaks with a convincing authority on the matter. He masterfully spells out the arguments on economic, managerial, political, and social psychological grounds for democratic worker ownership. This combination of real world experience and interdisciplinary understanding of the issues makes this the book on democratic employee ownership. – David Ellerman
This is a significant piece of work and I expect it to play an important part in creating a different ownership landscape in the years to come. – Jim Mather, Minister for Enterprise, Energy & Tourism: The Scottish Parliament
Already looks like being one of the most influential business books of the year * Scotsman *
BEYOND THE CORPORATION gives a breathtaking overview of employee ownership over the years and across the continents and provides a passionate argument of the case for employee ownership. It should be compulsory reading, not just for those of us on the inside, but for any student of economics, sociology, business or politics. – Carole Leslie, Policy Director, Employee Ownership Association
Erdal convincingly exposes the gross errors in the conventional models economists use to describe people and businesses (which he labels ‘just-so stories’), and describes how and why employee-owned businesses are superior to publicly listed companies in every way. The book is an easy read, jam-packed with quotable passages. – R. Eric Swanepoel * Bella Caledonia Blog *
David Erdal
David Erdal’s varied career includes:
- Winning a scholarship to Oxford University.
- Serving as a trade union shop steward.
- Working as a professional communist organiser.
- Gaining experience in Mao’s China.
- Becoming disillusioned with totalitarian systems.
- Graduating from Harvard Business School.
- Leading a successful British paper manufacturer and transitioning it to all-employee ownership.
- Advising companies, trade unions, and governments in Slovenia, Zimbabwe, China, and South Africa on employee buyouts.
He earned a PhD in the psychology of sharing from St Andrews University in 2000. He is currently a director of a partnership that facilitates employee buyouts, chairman of the Employee Ownership Trust, and chairman of the employee ownership trust for a successful childcare company.
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