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B Corps & Employee Ownership

Certifications, legal structures and ownership models that are not worker cooperatives, and how they differ from each other.

6 lessons· 11 min total

B Corp, benefit corporation, employee-owned and social enterprise get used interchangeably, but they are four different things: one is a certification, one is a legal structure, one is who owns the equity, and one is a stated mission. This track untangles them and shows one large, established company built on employee ownership.

Certifications and legal structures

  1. 1What is a B Corp?3 min read
  2. 2Benefit corporation vs. B Corp1 min read
  3. 3What is a social enterprise?1 min read

Employee ownership

  1. 4What does employee-owned actually mean?1 min read
  2. 5What happens when workers buy the company4 min read

Seeing it in practice

  1. 6Spotlight: King Arthur Baking Company1 min read
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