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Comparing Employee Ownership Models in Iran and Western Economies: Bridging Perspectives
Abstract
From agency theory perspective, employee ownership is a decisive factor in reducing agency problem and it can improve firms' performance. In recent years many countries especially western countries implement certain employees' ownership plans, for example, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in the U.S. Iran also introduced Preferred shares plan. According to this plan, the companies' shares are able to be sold in the form of Preferred shares to the employees. This chapter investigated the differences of employees' ownership plans in Iran and western countries including USA, France, Spain and the UK. The findings indicated that there are many differences between employees' ownership plans of Iran and western countries; such as the plans of the western countries which were reviewed are in both private and state-owned companies; however, the plan of Iran is only for state-owned companies.
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