Comments on EO Trans Draft Paper

[Deborah Groban Olson <dgo@esoplaw.com>]

To: Steve Clem and EO Trans Group
Re: COG Transnational Corps. Paper
Date: 10/6/00

This paper is a good start. 

Can this group reach out to people involved more directly in these
agencies to get their participation in this discussion? Do Vic, Karen,
Shann, or others have contacts in either global agencies or activist
groups who might participate in this discussion around questions of
priorities and strategies?

Following are several suggestions regarding this paper.

1) There are more recent resource articles about global corporate
employee ownership than Manson’s 1996 article. See NCEO Journal of
Employee Ownership Vol 10, No.2, Spring 1998, which has 4 articles;
Rousseau’s article in Vol. 11, No.4, Fall 1999, Vol.12, No.3, Summer 2000
Morrison and Adams article. There is also the Vol.7, No.4 Fall 1995 issue
which has older articles about EO is many countries. I think these should
be in the bibliography to this article and the newer material should be
discussed. 

2) You should call or email this article to Ryan Weeden at NCEO and seek
his comments. He is the person at NCEO setting up the multi-national
website and serving as liaison between NCEO, GEO and EFES.

3) I’d like you to remove some of the tentative language such as “kind of
see” p.2, “about as good an endorsement” p.7.  You may need to do
more research to be able to make more definitive statements.

4) P.13 What does “$(1) 8” trillion and “$(4) 3” trillion mean?

5) The paper needs a conclusion discussing what the EO Trans group can do
to further develop the ideas or strategies discussed therein.


Deb Olson

Deborah Groban Olson

Chair and Project Coordinator

Capital Ownership Group (COG)

Ohio Employee Ownership Center

Kent State University

COG web site - http://cog.kent.edu

Email: cog@kent.edu

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