Coco companies: work, happiness and employee ownership

A paper about how a dynamic combination of co-ownership and co-creation [‘CoCo’] helps employee owned businesses create exceptional performance while enhancing employee wellbeing. Launched at a Parliamentary reception with Environment Secretary David Miliband MP, the paper includes policy proposals designed to help Government and others harness the CoCo effect to benefit business and the economy.

Author: Richard Reeves, now executive director of think-tank Demos

Published: February 2007

Foreword: Sir Stuart Hampson, former chairman of the John Lewis Partnership

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