Talk:Timeline of employee stock ownership plan development

Globalize?

User Stuartyeates tagged article with Globalize/US tag... however, while employee ownership is a broad topic, ESOPs as such are specifically an American legal instrument. Would it be really necessary to globalize the article? And in what way? Thanks, Ixat (talk) 17:50, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Neither this article nor Employee Stock Ownership Plans mentions that they're USA-only, not discusses whether similar things might be happening in other countries. This article also needs to explain ohw it might correspond to History of the cooperative movement, which I note starts well before this page. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:22, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

That's a good point. I'm not clear on how this relates to the cooperative movement at large - an ESOP is a tax-advantaged employee benefit plan, implemented in the process of ownership transfer that can be partial or total, as opposed to co-ops which are set up from the start to be collectively owned, with a charter. The National Center for Employee Ownership has been trying to spread the word around the globe, places like the UK and South Africa, and some countries already do try to promote employee ownership. However, ESOPs are a very specific tax benefit defined in the US tax code - there are other collective ownership benefits, such as tax-free status of 501(c)(3) organizations, which are written up and discussed separately from ESOPs on Wikipedia. As a fairly inexperienced editor, I'm not sure where we would draw the boundary between ESOPs and other pro-collective ownership incentives, especially in other countries with different tax codes and corporate structures. There should be a separate article about ESOPs outside the US, and I'll try to come up with some information; for now, I'll amend this timeline by reinforcing that it's US-specific. Do you have any other ideas? Ixat (talk) 20:51, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

I am new to Wiki editing, but I believe a link from this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_stock_ownership_plan might fix the problem. The history of ESOP legislation in USA is a story in itself and developed very differently from the co-op movement although they were designed to address some of the same economic problems. And yes, if anyone is knowledgeable about NCEO's international efforts, specially in China, those should be included. Hartfilms (talk) 21:44, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Merge

This article makes no sense on its own and has been tagged for a while. As it's not particularly long I have merged it into the history section of Employee stock ownership plan. Sargdub (talk) 22:32, 30 May 2017 (UTC)