| A Better Way of Doing Business?: Lessons from the John Lewis Partnership Contributor(s): Salaman, Graeme (Author), Storey, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198782829 ISBN-13: 9780198782827 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $58.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| 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" (0.95 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |