Motivating employee-owners in ESOP firms : human resource policies and company performance / Douglas Kruse, Richard Freeman, Joseph Blasi, Robert Buchele, Adria Scharf, Loren Rodgers, Chris Mackin -- The effects of profit sharing and employee share ownership on quits : evidence from a panel of French firms / Fathi Fakhfakh -- Profit-sharing, technical efficiency change and finance constraints / Ornella Wanda Maietta, Vania Sena -- Ownership and participation : a review of empirical evidence for transition economies / Derek C. Jones -- Privatization in Serbia : the difficult conversion of self-management into property rights / Milica Uvalic -- Does employee ownership enhance firm survival? / Rhokeun Park, Douglas Kruse, James Sesil -- Exclusion from employee ownership : evidence from Estonian case studies / Panu Kalmi -- Early cooperative survival : the liability of adolescence / Virginie Pâerotin -- Lessons from the history of democratic economic institutions : the case of the southern U.S. / Mark Klinedinst -- Introduction / Virginie Pâerotin, Andrew Robinson.

This latest volume of Advances contains a series of original and innovative empirical and survey papers that investigate theoretical and contemporary issues facing participatory organizations. The first four papers explore the growing area of participatory and labor-managed firms' survival. The second group of three papers offers a number of new approaches and insights into the performance effects of participatory firms, and the final group of papers provides a broad-ranging synthesis and assessment of the experience of employee ownership and participation in transition economies. Collectively, these nine papers truly constitute Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms.