On the Choice Between Capitalist and Labour-Managed Production: Evidence from a Panel of Entrants into UK Manufacturing Industries

Jan M. Podivinsky and Geoff Stewart

A chapter in Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, 2012, pp 77-95 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Empirical evidence suggests that labour-managed firms (LMFs) are relatively rare in market economies not because they are unable to survive as long as their capitalist firm (CF) counterparts, but rather because they are created much less frequently. In this chapter we use event count models applied to panel data on UK manufacturing to provide a direct comparison of the entry process of CFs and LMFs. Our main finding is that risk and capital requirements constitute greater entry barriers for LMFs than for CFs.

Keywords: Capitalist firms; labour-managed firms; cooperatives; entry; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1108/S0885-3339(2012)0000013008

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