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SALISBURY, MD---A book featuring a chapter by Dr. Frank Shipper, ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ professor emeritus of management and marketing, has earned Rutgers University’s William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize.

Sponsored by Rutgers’ Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, the annual award honors a book that makes a significant contribution to the advancement of economic democracy.

This year’s winner, Employee Ownership in the Americas: A Path to Shared Prosperity, edited by Rodrigo Zuloaga and Gonzalo Hernandez, faculty at ITESO (Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, in Mexico); and Michael Palmieri of Kent State University, was written to help people in Central and South America improve their economic and social circumstances based on employee ownership with a high-engagement culture.

To do so, they sought out some of the world’s foremost employee ownership experts, from Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, France, Spain, and the U.S., including Shipper. With William Nobles, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations executive fellow and former corporate vice president of information systems at ExxonMobil Corp., he co-authored the chapter “Practices of Freedom-Based Employee Ownership Enterprises, Their Employees and Leaders.”

Citing Mondragon Corp., a federation of worker cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain, as an example of employee ownership from outside the Americas, they share insights from their 60-plus combined years of experience and research into the topic. The authors touch on leadership, culture, recruitment and selection, training and development, succession planning and leadership development, risk-taking, learning, open communications, shared property and company resource rights, and layoff avoidance strategies that have helped such companies and their employees attain prosperity.

Shipper is a past William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize recipient, winning in 2022 for the book Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path to Engaged Employee Ownership, for which he served as editor and co-author.

His research also has been presented at many venues, for example the Beyster Symposiums at the University of California, San Diego; at the Saïd Business School’s Business Fights Poverty Conferences and the Kellogg College’s Rutgers-Oxford Employee Ownership Research Symposium both at the University of Oxford; the International Rendanheyi Model Forum in Qingdao, China; the Mid-Year Fellows Workshop in Honor of Louis O. Kelso at Rutgers University; and Academy of Management’s annual meetings.

Shipper’s studies also have been referenced by national media, including MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal, and featured in the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations’ Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership, the largest global online library on employee ownership, among other notable outlets. For over 30 years, his colleagues and he have promoted effective inclusion, diversity and equity practices through their teaching and dissemination internationally of their research.

Thanks to ITESO’s support, free electronic copies of  Employee Ownership in the Americas: A Path to Shared Prosperity can be download .

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