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The Seller’s Last Question: What Happens to the Employees?

Capitalism,Commentary,Commerce,Economics and Surplus Allocation,Foundations and Philosophy,Governance and Structure 487

Reference code: C26-05 La-Z-Boy, Foreign Competition, and the Succession-Planning Case for a CCE When the owner of a successful manufacturing company begins planning for succession, the discussion quickly acquires its own vocabulary. The advisers speak of valuation, financing, taxes...

Shared Surplus and Competitive Edge in a CCE

Capitalism,Commentary,Commerce 989

Reference code: C25-07 A commons capitalism entity, or CCE, is built around a different idea of corporate purpose and surplus. The commons corporation at the top of the group keeps and stewards consolidated surplus for the benefit of the enterprise as a whole. Subsidiaries operate as market-facing...

Scaling Shared Wealth Through a Commons Capitalism Entity

Commentary,Cooperatives,Governance and Structure,Labor and Workplace 1189

Reference code: C25-06 Executive Summary A purpose-built commons capitalism entity that centralizes surplus, holds subsidiaries, and pursues acquisitions delivers distinct economic advantages over a typical worker cooperative in three interlocking ways. First, the legal and financial design of a...

Managing a Nonprofit Enterprise with Stewarded Surplus

Commentary,Governance and Structure 1092

Reference code: C25-05 Introduction and Core Function The design of a nonprofit enterprise without members or shareholders that distributes decision authority across multiple centers and treats net profits as stewarded surplus produces a distinctive institutional model. The structure differs from...

A Labor Union’s Assessment of the Organizational Structure and Overall Benefits of a CCE

Commentary,Governance and Structure,Labor and Workplace 970

Reference code: C25-04 Commons Capitalism Entities, or CCEs, present a deliberate redesign of firm incentives and ownership structure. Rather than permitting outside investors or executives to extract surplus, these entities hold surplus in an internal commons structure and allocate it primarily to...

How Does Commons Capitalism Relate to Capitalism

Capitalism,Commentary 1400

Reference code: C25-03 To understand Commons Capitalism it helps to begin with a compact analytic sketch of capitalism and then compare that overview directly to the concrete institutional choices of Commons Capitalism (CC). Doing so shows what CC preserves, how it reconfigures key relationships...

A Concise Summary of Commons Capitalism

Commentary,Governance and Structure 849

Reference code: C25-02 Commons Capitalism reframes how businesses capture and distribute economic surplus. It’s neither a return to laissez-faire shareholder capitalism nor a revival of worker cooperatives; instead, it proposes a third institutional form designed to anchor corporate surplus within a...

Commons Capitalism Entities and Workers’ Cooperatives: Working Together for a Better Society

Commentary,Cooperatives,Governance and Structure 836

Reference code: C25-01 Economist Richard Wolff has proposed replacing traditional corporations with workers’ cooperatives (“coops” for short). More specifically, he advocates for Workers’ Self-Directed Enterprises (WSDEs). These organizations aim to distribute wealth, particularly net profits...