Perdue School Faculty Publish in Emerald Insight Annual

SALISBURY, MD---Faculty from Salisbury University’s Management and Marketing Department in the Franklin P. Perdue School of Business and other institutions recently published two articles in the Emerald Insight annual Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms.

The publication is an international outlet for research on firms that practice shared leadership, employee ownership and collaboration. SU is the only institution represented with two articles, according to Dr. Frank Shipper, who co-authored both.

“Mid South Building Supply: Surviving the Great Recession,” by Drs. Thomas Calo, Shipper, Marc Street and Vera Street, focused on why employee-owned companies are more likely to survive recessions than other businesses, studying the Virginia-based corporation as its basis.

“Atlas Container Corporation: Thinking Outside the Box,” by Calo and Shipper, focused on how the Maryland business has used human resource policies and practices to create a distinctive culture by reinforcing the company’s values of egalitarianism, democracy, mutuality and transparency.

In addition to these studies, SU management and marketing faculty have researched extensively the shared governance and ownership management model and its role in many top companies, such as W.L. Gore and Associates, Herman Miller, Equal Exchange, Mondragon of Spain, TEOCO (The Employee-Owned Company) and the John Lewis Partnership of the United Kingdom.

Their work is widely recognized. Individuals from over 150 countries have used it. For the past three years, it has been presented at the Business Fights Poverty conference at the University of Oxford, England. It also is presented regularly at the Beyster Institute at the University of California San Diego and at Rutgers University. In 2017, Shipper was a keynote speaker at the International Rendanheyi Model Forum in Qingdao, China.

Their research also has been referenced by national media, including MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal, and featured on Rutgers University’s School of Management and Labor Relations’s Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership, the largest global online library on employee ownership.

Multiple grants and awards to continue their work have been received, including Rutgers University’s prestigious Kevin E. Ruble Fellowship.

For more information call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU website at www.salisbury.edu.