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by Corey Rosen and Michael Quarrey

From the Magazine (September 1987)
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Ever since 1974, when Congress enacted the first of a series of tax measures designed to encourage employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), the number of employee-owned (or partially owned) companies has grown from about 1,600 to 8,100, and the number of employees owning stock has jumped from 250,000 to more than eight million.1 Employee-owners publish the Milwaukee Journal, bag groceries at Publix Supermarkets, roll tin plate at Weirton Steel, and create high-tech products at W.L. Gore Associates. How well are these companies doing?

A version of this article appeared in the September 1987 issue of Harvard Business Review.Corey Rosen ([email protected]) is the executive director of the National Center for Employee Ownership in Oakland, California.Michael Quarrey , formerly projects director of the National Center for Employee Ownership, is the author, with Corey Rosen and Joseph Blasi, of Taking Stock: Employee Ownership at Work (Ballinger, 1986).
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