J. Robert Beyster Papers at UCSD Special Collections
The J.R. Beyster papers constitute more than fifty years of documents demonstrating the vision, entrepreneurship, and nationally important innovations of J.R. Beyster and of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), as a San Diego-based and privately held, employee-owned company.
This Collection, available at Special Collections & Archives at UC San Diego Library, is a historical preservation of the technological, managerial, and employee-ownership innovations of Dr. Beyster and SAIC. The FED and the Beyster Family worked with Leidos and UCSD, a global education leader, on multiple phases of archiving. The goal is for educators and researchers to have access to this unique resource on San Diego business, scientific ingenuity of national and global impact, and employee-owner enabled entrepreneurial practices so that others may build off of the learnings of Dr. Beyster and SAIC.
J. Robert Beyster Professorship of Employee Ownership
The J. Robert Beyster Professorship of Employee Ownership is Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations’ first endowed professorship. According to Rutgers, it is the first named chair in employee ownership (EO) established anywhere. Dr. Beyster’s goal for this endowment was “to establish Rutgers as a central node for the network of EO researchers and practitioners across the U.S.” Rutgers has a long track record of leadership in EO and demonstrated commitment to closely related fields of human resources, labor management, accounting, and corporate governance.
Joseph R. Blasi was named the J. Robert Beyster Professor of Employee Ownership at Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations.
Beyster Fellowship Program
The Beyster Fellowship Program, administered by Rutgers University, started in 2008 to support students and faculty at business schools, engineering schools and entrepreneurship centers engaged in applied research studies and curriculum development. The program currently includes researchers and scholars from more than 40 universities representing diverse academic disciplines.
Beyster Fellowship Symposium
The Beyster Fellowship Symposium, administered by Rutgers University, is an annual meeting place for scholars that have been identified under various fellowships and are studying different aspects of employee ownership and profit sharing including impacts on personal, a firm, and economic health and performance.
Since FED initiated in 2009, this has become the largest academic symposium of scholars involved in the interdisciplinary study of employee stock ownership and participation. The FED Archive is home to the annual agendas and proceedings since the inaugural symposium.
Emerging Scholar Awards
In support of young scholars, the FED created an Emerging Scholar Award program advancing “Employee Ownership and Participation” in partnership with the Academy of Management. The purpose of this award is to identify innovative research in management or management-related disciplines that considers high-impact ideas in the context of business and society’s needs for employee empowerment, participative workforces, and wealth creation through broad-based equity and profit-sharing mechanisms, work practices, organizational structures, and innovation and entrepreneurial models.
Best Paper Prize
The Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership (JPEO) is a new journal launching in 2018 for original research in the broad area of employee participation and shared capitalism from a wide range of disciplines (e.g. economics, HRM and industrial relations, management science, sociology, public policy). The Journal is edited by a highly respected and prestigious editorial team. The BFED sponsors an annual prize for excellence in research published in the Journal. The winner of the Prize, selected by the Editors across the past published volume, is recognized at the Beyster Symposium.