Shared Entrepreneurship [electronic resource] : A Path to Engaged Employee Ownership /
Shipper, Frank.
Shipper, F.editor.
Today's views of leadership and management have significantly expanded to incorporate a variety of elements such as rewards, visions, and worker participation. However, most perspectives still view leadership as something that is assigned to a designated person who then exercises influence downward toward subordinate followers. In many ways the persistent top-down command and control theme that supports established leadership thought and practice prevents organizations from fully tapping into their human resources, in turn limiting their flexibility to meet the challenges of increasingly dynamic, complex, and competitive environments. Shared Entrepreneurship replaces the top-down approaches of the past with a new framework that draws strengths and innovation from collaboration and sharing. This book is divided into two main sections. The first section consists of six chapters which provide an in-depth overview and discussion of shared entrepreneurship. The second section consists of eight original case studies commissioned by the authors, featuring such companies as Herman Miller, Inc., SRC Holdings, and W.L. Gore & Associates.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Box; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; PART I Understanding and Developing Shared Entrepreneurship; CHAPTER 1 Shared Entrepreneurship: Toward an Ethical, Dynamic, Empowering, Freedom-Based Process of Collaborative Innovation*; CHAPTER 2 Shared Leadership: The Do's and Don'ts in Shared Entrepreneurship Enterprises; CHAPTER 3 Shared Governance: Structures and Processes; CHAPTER 4 Innovation through Shared Entrepreneurship; CHAPTER 5 Culture in Shared Entrepreneurship Firms; CHAPTER 6 Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path Forward
PART II Shared Entrepreneurship in ActionCHAPTER 7 SRC Holdings: Winning the Game while Sharing the Prize; CHAPTER 8 Herman Miller: Unrelenting Pursuit of Reinvention and Renewal; CHAPTER 9 Equal Exchange: Doing Well by Doing Good; CHAPTER 10 TEOCO (The Employee Owned Company): Principled Entrepreneurship and Shared Leadership; CHAPTER 11 HCSS: Employee Ownership and the Entrepreneurial Spirit; CHAPTER 12 MBC Ventures, Inc.: An ESOP with a Union Partner; CHAPTER 13 KCI Technologies, Inc.: Engineering the Future, One Employee at a Time
CHAPTER 14 W. L. Gore & Associates: Developing Global Teams to Meet Twenty-First-Century ChallengesAbout the Authors; Index
Includes index.
Today's views of leadership and management have significantly expanded to incorporate a variety of elements such as rewards, visions, and worker participation. However, most perspectives still view leadership as something that is assigned to a designated person who then exercises influence downward toward subordinate followers. In many ways the persistent top-down command and control theme that supports established leadership thought and practice prevents organizations from fully tapping into their human resources, in turn limiting their flexibility to meet the challenges of increasingly dynamic, complex, and competitive environments. Shared Entrepreneurship replaces the top-down approaches of the past with a new framework that draws strengths and innovation from collaboration and sharing. This book is divided into two main sections. The first section consists of six chapters which provide an in-depth overview and discussion of shared entrepreneurship. The second section consists of eight original case studies commissioned by the authors, featuring such companies as Herman Miller, Inc., SRC Holdings, and W.L. Gore & Associates.
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Entrepreneurship.
Corporate Governance.