{"product_id":"9780191085604","title":"A Better Way of Doing Business?: Lessons from The John Lewis Partnership","description":"This book offers a thoroughly researched and accessibly written account of  the John Lewis Partnership. It describes what the JLP is, how it works, and what other businesses can learn from it.  The US\/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder value and its openness to the market in the buying and selling of businesses, is prone to a number of problematic consequences for employees, suppliers, and sometimes share-holders. The JLP represents a contrast to this model - one that has implications beyond the small niche of mutually-owned firms. The JLP has lessons for organizations that are unlikely to move towards the Partnership's distinctive shared ownership. This book identifies these lessons.  The key questions addressed include: how does the JLP work in practice? What is the link between co-ownership, the JLP employment model, and the performance of the businesses? What is the role of management in the success of John Lewis and Waitrose? Are mutuality, co-ownership and business performance at odds? What is the significance of democracy within the JLP? And probably most significantly: what are the implications, for policy-makers and for economic agents of the JLP? This book is based on detailed knowledge of the JLP and its constituent business gathered by the authors over a fifteen year period. Their conclusion: that the JLP is more complex, even more impressive, and more interesting than its admirers realise.","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47066960560368,"sku":"9780191085604","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780191085604_p0.jpg?v=1763660682","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780191085604","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}