Initially, stock ownership is given to the community in order to promote the process.

Whether workers can be considered working class if they own personal property or small amounts of stock ownership.

"Research shows there's a correlation between directors' stock ownership and corporate performance."

The incentive of stock ownership, he said, can lead to improved production.

There was no reference to his stock ownership in the plea agreement.

That will involve reducing stock ownership to several hundred people from about 1,000, he added.

"I got the idea that stock ownership was a responsibility," he said.

But Carver is finding the road to stock ownership a rough one.

By mid-1989, institutions made up 43 percent of stock ownership.

He founded the first modern bank based on joint stock ownership in Japan.