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A Better Way of Doing Business?
Contributor(s): Salaman, Graeme (Author)

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ISBN: 0198782829     ISBN-13: 9780198782827
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
OUR PRICE: $58.90  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Social History
- Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
Dewey: 331.216
LCCN: 2016933336
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.1" L (0.95 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
This book offers a thoroughly researched and accessibly written account of the John Lewis Partnership. It describes what the JLP is, how it works, and what other businesses can learn from it.

The US/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder value and its openness to the market in the buying and selling of businesses, is prone to a number of problematic consequences for employees, suppliers, and sometimes share-holders. The JLP represents a contrast to this model - one that
has implications beyond the small niche of mutually-owned firms. The JLP has lessons for organizations that are unlikely to move towards the Partnership's distinctive shared ownership. This book identifies these lessons.

The key questions addressed include: how does the JLP work in practice? What is the link between co-ownership, the JLP employment model, and the performance of the businesses? What is the role of management in the success of John Lewis and Waitrose? Are mutuality, co-ownership and business
performance at odds? What is the significance of democracy within the JLP? And probably most significantly: what are the implications, for policy-makers and for economic agents of the JLP? This book is based on detailed knowledge of the JLP and its constituent business gathered by the authors over a
fifteen year period. Their conclusion: that the JLP is more complex, even more impressive, and more interesting than its admirers realise.

 
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