A Better Way of Doing Business? - Lessons from The John Lewis Partnership (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2016
Authors:	Graeme Salaman (Emeritus Professor of Organisation Studies) • John Storey (Professor of Management)
Dimensions:	241 x 158 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-878282-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Employee-ownership & co-operatives Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Distributive industries > Retail sector Books > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions
LSN:	0-19-878282-9
Barcode:	9780198782827

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