Carris Reels Research and Developmental Change
Betit, C.G. (2017) A few thoughts on the infrastructure of collaboration and trust. International Society for Organization Development and Change Newsletter.
Betit, C. G. (2017) Echoes from the Experience of the “Power of Collaboration”, Reflection and Inquiry. International Society for Organization Development and Change Newsletter.
Betit, C.G. (2016) Turning Point: An inside story for building a future where all can thrive. Invited Op-ed. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.
Betit, C. G. (2015) Employee ownership and governance: The Carris Companies making change impacting the whole. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.
Betit, C.G. (2008). The Carris Companies: Doing the next right thing. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.
Betit, C.G. (2008). A positive movement forward: Carris Companies employee-governance. In M. Avital, R.J. Boland, D.L. Cooperrider (Eds.) Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, 2: 281-307, Elsevier Ltd.
Betit, C.G. (2005). Putting governance to work: The Carris Companies’ Experience. In Istemi Demirag (Ed.) Towards Better Governance: Relationships Among Regulators, Corporations And Civil Society. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.
Betit, C.G. (2002). Working toward transparency and accountability: Carris Companies governance. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.
Betit, C.G. (2002). The Carris Companies: Making 100% employee governance the practice—Shifting stakeholder and citizen rights and responsibilities to the employees. In J. Andriof, S. Waddock, S. Rahman and Bryan Husted (Eds.) Unfolding stakeholder thinking. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.
Betit, C.G. (2002). Carris Companies’ practice of employee governance. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.
Betit, C.G. (2001). Carris Companies experience: Corporate values in practice. In M. Pava, J.W. Dienhart, R. Duska, and D.J. Moberg (Eds.) The next phase of business ethics: Integrating psychology and ethics, Research in ethical issues in organizations, 3, p. 495-510. New York, New York: JAI, Elsevier Science Ltd.
Betit, C.G. (2000). Carris Companies’ long and winding road to employee ownership and values based governance. Journal of Organizational Excellence, Winter 39-46.
Betit, C.G. & Rao, J. (1998) Carris Corporation: Incentive plan program: (Case Number 131C981). Wellesley, MA: Babson College.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Betit, C. G. (2022) Framer and Facilitator: Building a Company of Owners: Sellers’ Perspectives on the Transition to Shared Ownership. Vermont Employee Ownership Conference.
Betit, C.G. & T. Kato (2018) Does employee ownership change employee attitudes behavior? An econometric case study. 19th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Betit, C.G. (2018). Carris Companies challenges and successes on the road to employee ownership and governance. Beyster Symposium, La Jolla, CA.
Betit, C.G. (2017). A Few Thoughts on the Infrastructure of Collaboration and Trust: What’s next? How can we evolve our own work and practices to further support organizational flourishing? International Society for Organization Development and Change.
Betit, C.G. (2014). Panel: Deep Participation: Cultivating a Culture of Collaboration. Co-presenter, The Carris Experience. Vermont Employee Ownership Conference.
Betit, C.G. (2013). Discussion Co-Leader for a Special Screening ofWe the Owners: Employees Expanding the American Dream. Vermont Employee Ownership Conference.
Betit, C.G. (2007). The Carris Companies: Doing the next right thing. The Next Great Transformation: Sustainable Enterprise: A Conversation About The Future. Cornwall, UK: Eden Center.
Betit, C.G. (2006). The Carris Companies innovation: 100% employee ownership and governance. Business as an Agent of World Benefit: (BAWB) Presentation and Interactive Working Paper Series. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Betit, C.G. (2003). Living the vision in good times and bad: The Carris Companies governance. The Tenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics.
Betit, C.G. (2002). C.G. Betit. Organizational transparency and accountability as function of developmental stage: The Carris Companies. The Ninth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics.
Betit, C.G. (2002). Sorting out the accounting for time dynamics in research on organizational change. Dynamic Time and Creative Inquiry in Organizational Change: An Invitational Improvisational Conference; Co-sponsored by the Center for Creative Inquiry and the Organizational Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management.
Betit, C.G. (2002). The Carris Companies practice of governance: Corporate citizenship—The next generation. International Conference on Corporate Reputation, sponsored by the Reputation Institute.
Betit, C.G. (2000). Improving the quality of life for the growing Carris community: Experiences in transition to employee-ownership and governance. In Jeannie Forray (Ed.) Proceedings CD of the 37th Annual Meeting: Eastern Academy of Management.
Betit, C.G. & W. Martello (2000). Walking their talk: When the employees become owners: The process of designed change in the Carris Companies. In K. Getz and D. Windsor (Eds.) Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the International Association for Business and Society, 202-208.
Betit, C.G. (1999). Moving through designed change: Resolving paradox through the application of ethical and pragmatic processes. The Sixth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics.
Betit, C.G. (1998). Corporate values in practice: The Carris Community of Companies’ experience Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics.
Betit, C.G. (1998). The effects of socially responsible entrepreneurship in a manufacturing environment. In J. Calton and K. Rehbein (Eds.) Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business and Society.
Betit, C.G. & W. S. Brown (1998). Building Trust, Inclusivity and Community in a Learning Organization. Professors’ Forum of the 27th International Federation of Training and Development Organizations World Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Betit, C.G. (1997). Research On the Carris Financial Corporation’s Transition to Employee-Ownership. National Center for Employee Ownership: 17th Annual Conference, Chicago-Hyatt, Chicago, Illinois.