Pendleton, A. and Robinson, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-1369-2718 (2025) Employee Ownership Trusts: An Employee Ownership Success Story. International Review of Applied Economics. ISSN 0269-2171
Abstract
Since its creation in 2014, the employee ownership trust (EOT) has become a widespread form of employee ownership in the UK, and has transformed the country’s employee ownership scene. Given that it is over a decade since its inception into UK legislation, and with the EOT now firmly established as a key business succession tool, it is timely to take a closer, critical look at the role, characteristics, and potential dangers of the UK EOT model. This paper will briefly outline and discuss the key characteristics of EOTs, how the EOT came about, and why it has been so successful. Using several unique data-sets of UK employee-owned businesses, it will profile key features of EOTs, and show how the flexible approach of the EOT provides the potential to sidestep many of the obstacles faced by other forms of employee ownership.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Employee ownership; EOT; democratic ownership; business succession |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Accounting & Finance Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2025 10:53 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2025 08:47 |
Published Version: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02692... |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02692171.2025.2475136 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:223994 |
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