The Foundation supports applied research that advances innovation, entrepreneurship, and broad-based employee ownership. Our focus is primarily U.S based, and we work with individuals/institutions with a clear intent and means of disseminating information, and who can bring a meaningful addition to current body of work.
Beyster Fellowship Program
Created in 2008, this is the longest running annual fellowship program in support of broad-based employee ownership. Through a com...
J. Robert Beyster Professorship of Employee Ownership
Established at Rutgers in 2011, the Beyster Professorship is held by an outstanding faculty member in the area of employee ownersh...
Best Paper Prize
The best paper prize is awarded by the Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership. Established in 2017, by editors, Drs...
Scholarly Research Award
The Employee Participation and Ownership Scholarly Research Award is awarded by the Academy of Management. The AOM is the leading...
Beyster Symposium
From 2009-2023, the Beyster Symposium was the largest academic symposium for the interdisciplinary study of employee stock ownersh...
Idea Forums
We support forums for new connectivity including the inaugural Impact Investing & Ownership Forum in 2018, and the inaugural R...
EO in the Americas
Employee Ownership In the Americas: A path to shared prosperity is a 2023 book presenting research and case studies showing that w...
Equitable Food Systems
Exploring Community Wealth Building in San Diego County’s Food System defines opportunities to normalize four models of communit...
Impact Investing and Employee Ownership
In this Fifty by Fifty research brief, Mary Ann Beyster, president and trustee of the Foundation for Enterprise Development (FED),...