@article{2016:ortlieb:employee_s,
title = {Employee share ownership in Germany: A cluster analysis of firms' aims},
year = {2016},
note = {Politicians and scholars alike praise the significant benefits
associated with employee share ownership (ESO). However, little is
known about the concrete motives of firms to provide ESO to their
employees. In particular, it is unknown how these motives correlate
with firms’ contexts. Drawing on an institutional theoretical
framework, this article examines what aims firms pursue through the
provision of ESO. The data originate from a survey of firms in
Germany. The cluster analytic findings indicate distinctive patterns
of relationships between aims and firm characteristics. Aims related
to employee performance are most important to foreign-owned firms,
financial aims are most important to non-public small and medium-sized
firms and aims related to corporate image are most important to big
firms and to firms that do not provide profit sharing. Aims related to
employee attraction and retention are almost equally important to all
kinds of firms.},
journal = {mrev management revue},
pages = {285--303},
author = {Ortlieb, Renate and Matiaske, Wenzel and Fietze, Simon},
volume = {27},
number = {4}
}