Gregory Keith Dow (born February 2, 1954)
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who has contributed to the economics of participation and particularly to research on

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. He received his Ph.D. from the

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in 1981 with a thesis "Investment under uncertainty : the capital market and the behavior of the firm" WorldCat thesis record
/ref> He is the author of the 2003 book ''Governing the Firm: Workers' Control in Theory and Practice'' (Cambridge University Press, 2003). According to

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, the book is held in 773 libraries.WorldCat item record
/ref> His most recent book, ''The Labor-Managed Firm: Theoretical Foundations'' attempts to build a theoretical foundation in order to explain the overwhelming preeminence of capital-managed firms viz. labor-managed firms in the real economy. His main conclusions include the fact that market imperfections along with a number of organizational weaknesses that LMFs (labor-managed firms) face that capital-managed firms (KMFs) do not prevent the spread of LMFs through the real economy.

Bibliography

*Dow, Gregory K. ''Governing the Firm Workers' Control in Theory and Practice.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. *(coeditor) Dow, Gregory K., Andrew Eckert, and Douglas Scott West. ''Industrial Organization, Trade, and Social Interaction: Essays in Honour of B. Curtis Eaton.'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. WorldCat item record
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References

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