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žbeni in politični procesi v sodobnih slovanskih kulturah, jezikih in literaturah 32 krize – v novejšem času lahko spremljamo poskuse delavskih pre
vzemov obstoječih ali propadlih podjetij in projekte ustanavljanja
takšnih organizacij na novo, predvsem v obliki zadružništva in so
cialnega podjetništva pa so takšne ideje začele prodirati tudi v pro
grame političnih strank.
Employee-owned and Employee-managed Enterprises
in Post-independence Slovenia
The article is dedicated to research of employee-owned and em
ployee-managed enterprises in post-independence Slovenia. Most
known forms include examples of worker cooperatives, forms of
employee stock ownership and PLCs in worker ownership. The
text begins with the theoretical part, in which I examine the fea
tures, social conditions and potential advantages of such econom
ic organisation, such as: positive influence on productivity, busi
ness responsibility, job security, more equitable distribution of
wealth and empowerment of the individual, as well as potential
weaknesses. The main part is dedicated to research of such or
ganisations in Slovenian practice. Privatisation (abolition of social
property and its conversion into private property) in the begin
ning of transition in the 1990s led to an unique historical situation
in which the workers became important co-owners of Slovenian
companies (in many, especially smaller companies, even majori
ty owners), while the law also gave them right to participation in
management. Despite this, the later historical developments have
not led to democratically organised workers' companies. In prac
tice, employee ownership started to gradually decline and owner
ship concentrated in the hands of a more narrow layer of capital
owners and managers, while management in most of the com
panies was right from the start organised in a relatively hierar
chical and authoritarian manner in which employees did not have
much decision-making power. Apart from rare exceptions, com
panies in predominant ownership and control of employees have
disappeared, but such forms of organisation are becoming impor
tant again since the eruption of the last economic crisis - recent
ly we can monitor attempts of worker takeovers of existing or
bankrupt enterprises and projects of creating such organisations
»from scratch«, while such ideas are also starting to appear in
programmes of political parties, especially in the form of cooper
atives and social enterpreneurship.
vzemov obstoječih ali propadlih podjetij in projekte ustanavljanja
takšnih organizacij na novo, predvsem v obliki zadružništva in so
cialnega podjetništva pa so takšne ideje začele prodirati tudi v pro
grame političnih strank.
Employee-owned and Employee-managed Enterprises
in Post-independence Slovenia
The article is dedicated to research of employee-owned and em
ployee-managed enterprises in post-independence Slovenia. Most
known forms include examples of worker cooperatives, forms of
employee stock ownership and PLCs in worker ownership. The
text begins with the theoretical part, in which I examine the fea
tures, social conditions and potential advantages of such econom
ic organisation, such as: positive influence on productivity, busi
ness responsibility, job security, more equitable distribution of
wealth and empowerment of the individual, as well as potential
weaknesses. The main part is dedicated to research of such or
ganisations in Slovenian practice. Privatisation (abolition of social
property and its conversion into private property) in the begin
ning of transition in the 1990s led to an unique historical situation
in which the workers became important co-owners of Slovenian
companies (in many, especially smaller companies, even majori
ty owners), while the law also gave them right to participation in
management. Despite this, the later historical developments have
not led to democratically organised workers' companies. In prac
tice, employee ownership started to gradually decline and owner
ship concentrated in the hands of a more narrow layer of capital
owners and managers, while management in most of the com
panies was right from the start organised in a relatively hierar
chical and authoritarian manner in which employees did not have
much decision-making power. Apart from rare exceptions, com
panies in predominant ownership and control of employees have
disappeared, but such forms of organisation are becoming impor
tant again since the eruption of the last economic crisis - recent
ly we can monitor attempts of worker takeovers of existing or
bankrupt enterprises and projects of creating such organisations
»from scratch«, while such ideas are also starting to appear in
programmes of political parties, especially in the form of cooper
atives and social enterpreneurship.
