Australia
| Australian Securities and Investments Commission | Employee share schemes -Sharing the wealth. As an employee of a company, you may be invited to participate in an employee share scheme. There are a number of things to consider before signing up. |
| Australian Taxation Office | The basics of employee share schemes, their benefits and taxation. |
| The Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals (BBCM) | The Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) is the national peak body representing the co-operative and mutual models of enterprise. It is the only organisation uniting the entire and diverse range of member owned businesses in Australia. |
United States
| Project Equity | Through Project Equity discover the power of employee ownership – whether you own a business, advise business owners, or want a thriving local economy, find out how employee ownership can work for you. |
| National Center for Employee Ownership | A comprehensive US site which contains a wealth of information on US stock and option plans. The NCEO also runs a wide range of seminars in the US for those interested in employee ownership. |
| Certified EO | Share Your Ownership Story. Unlock the competitive advantages of employee ownership. Get Certified. |
| Employee Ownership Foundation | The Employee Ownership Foundation’s (EOF) primary purpose is to support programs that will increase the level of awareness and appreciation of the benefits of employee ownership and increase the number of employees who have access to this benefit. |
| Foundation for Enterprise Development | The Foundation for Enterprise Development specializes in international entrepreneurship and economic development. |
| The Beyster Institute | The Beyster Institute at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management advances the understanding and practice of employee ownership as an effective and responsible business model. |
| Ohio Employee Ownership Centre | The Ohio Employee Ownership Center supports the development of business across Ohio and around the world by its efforts that are proven to save jobs, create wealth, and grow the economy. The OEOC’s work rests on a simple philosophy: broader ownership of productive assets is a good thing for employees, communities, and the country. The OEOC provides technical assistance, training, & outreach to the business community. |
| ESOP Association | The ESOP Association, founded in 1978, is a national non-profit membership organization with a primary focus on employee ownership through employee share ownership plans (ESOPs). It serves 2,500 ESOP companies and professionals with expert educational ESOP programming and information. It focuses on promoting and enhancing laws before Congress and regulatory agencies that govern ESOPs. |
| A Visual Guide To Employee Ownership – Charting the Spread of Employee Ownership | This site exists to illustrate the world of employee ownership (for now, in the U.S. only) through maps, infographics, and videos, and other means. |
| Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership (CLEO) | The CLEO Collection of downloadable, free case studies of employee-owned companies. |
Canada
| Canadian Employee Ownership Coalition | The Canadian Employee Ownership Coalition (CEOC) is a diverse, non-partisan network of Canadians from the business, nonprofit, academic and charitable sectors committed to unlocking the potential of employee ownership for the benefit of Canada’s economy and workers. |
| Employee Ownership Canada | Members share the common goal of promoting broad-based employee ownership in Canadian companies. |
United Kingdom
| Employee Ownership Association | The Employee Ownership Association UK (formerly Job Ownership Ltd – JOL) is the association of employee owned and trust owned businesses in the UK. The Employee Ownership Association exists to promote employee ownership of business and to expand the size and influence of the co-owned business sector in the UK. It provides information and services to members and new thinking about employee ownership. |
| The ESOP Centre | The Employee Share Ownership (Esop) Centre is a non-profit membership organisation promoting broad-based employee share ownership in the UK and abroad. |
| ProShare | ProShare was established in 1992 by HM Treasury, a group of FTSE 100 companies and the London Stock Exchange to promote employee share plans and wider participation. |
| Cooperative Development Scotland | Co-operative Development Scotland is the arm of Scotland’s enterprise agencies that support company growth through employee ownership and cooperative business models |
| Employee Ownership Wales | Is your business based in Wales? We provide fully-funded, bespoke consultancy support, to help you decide if employee ownership (EO) is the right solution for you and your business. |
Europe
| European Federation of Employee Share Ownership | EFES’ objective is to act as the European umbrella organization of employee owners and all persons, companies, trade unions, experts, researchers, institutions, all those people who are looking to promote employee ownership and participation in Europe. The European Federation is developing, with the contribution of experts, legal specialists and economists. It is setting up a European centre for information, meeting, training, advice, representation and lobbying to serve its members. It also organises many events and meetings in Europe to promote and develop the participation of employee owners. |
| European Programme for Employee Ownership Learning and Education (EOLE) | EOLE is the European Programme for Employee Ownership Learning and Education. EOLE will collect all information about existing communication, training and education programmes and invites (European) companies, organisations and social partners, educational and training organisations, to provide relevant information for their databank. |
Africa
| Southern Africa Employee Ownership Association (SAEOA) | SAEOA has been established to be the voice of employees, companies and shareholders on sharing ownership broadly with the people who make the company succeed. |
Asia
| Japan Employee Ownership Association | Japan Employee Ownership Association (JEOA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2014. With the absence of employee ownership concepts in Japan, JEOA’s objective is to introduce and promote employee ownership both in practice and academically. |
Global
| Global Equity Organisation | GEO was founded in 1999 to support corporate executives and equity compensation professionals dealing with the challenges of creating, managing and administering employee share plans large and small, national and global. GEO has more than 4,500 individual members representing over 1,500 companies and professional firms in more than 60 countries around the world. |
| Oxford Employee Ownership Symposium | A global gathering of the leaders, stakeholders, and government decision-makers in the field of employee ownership. This unique annual event serves to explore major issues and obstacles to participatory capitalism and employee ownership. |
