The global phenomenon of employee financial participation

Abstract

At the century's end the phenomenon of employee financial participation has gradually emerged as a ‘normal’ attribute of the employment relationship in important corners of the world and of the workforce. Covering such systems as profit sharing, employee share ownership and personnel stock option plans, employee financial participation is becoming part of the employment relationship of an increasing number of employees, especially in the industrialized world. In this number we have gathered contributions that tell us a story of employee financial participation from different angles and different parts of the world. The aim of this special issue is to deliver a state-of-the-art analysis of employee financial participation in the US, Europe, Korea, Taiwan and Japan.

Acknowledgements

The papers on employee financial participation in this volume have been developed as a spin-off from a meeting of experts at Nijmegen School of Management, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, that was supported by the National Foundation for Scientific Research of the Netherlands. We thank the foundation for its support.