Large firms and institutional change : industrial renewal and economic restructuring in France /

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Auteur principal: Hancké, Bob
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Langue:English
Publié: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-219) and index. 
505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Part I. State, Market, and Firms in the French Political Economy -- 1. Making Sense of France 7 -- 1.1. Economic and Industrial Adjustment in France 9 -- 1.2. Explaining Corporate Change 23 -- 1.3. A Firm-Centred View of the French Political Economy 29 -- 1.4. Conclusion and Book Outline 33 -- 2. The Societe Bloquee Revisited: The Failure of Economic Reforms in France 37 -- 2.1. The Crisis of the French Production Regime 38 -- 2.2. Failed Reforms 41 -- 2.3. Conclusion: Institutional Reform and its Problems 55 -- 3. Rethinking the French Political Economy: Bringing Firms Back In 57 -- 3.1. A Crisis of the Large Firms 58 -- 3.2. From State-Led Corporate Survival to Large Firm-Led Restructuring 60 -- 3.3. The Politics of Workplace Reorganization 65 -- 3.4. Building Supplier Networks 70 -- 3.5. Constructing New Markets 79 -- 3.6. Conclusion 82 -- Part II. Corporate Change in France: Case Studies -- 4. Cars are Cars: Industrial Restructuring in Renault 89 -- 4.1. Rethinking Car Building 89 -- 4.2. Corporate Governance: Management, the State, and the CGT 91 -- 4.3. Skills, Work Organization, and Labour Politics 95 -- 4.4. Reorganizing the Supply Chain: Trust is Good, Control is Better 104 -- 4.5. A New Conception of Product and Market 111 -- 4.6. Conclusion: Past and Future of Renault 115 -- 5. Changing the Power Grid: Industrial Reorganization at EDF 117 -- 5.1. Electricity Production: From the Fat to the Lean Years 117 -- 5.2. The EDF Governance System under Financial Stress 121 -- 5.3. Restructuring the Settlement with the CGT 125 -- 5.4. The Searchfor External Flexibility 131 -- 5.5. Rethinking Product Markets: Not Every kWh is the Same 134 -- 5.6. Conclusion: EDF 2002 138 -- 6. Grinding Vegetables-to a Halt: Delayed Adjustment in Moulinex 141 -- 6.1. The Glorious Thirty and the Twenty Piteuses 142 -- 6.2. From a One-Man Show to Professional Management 144 -- 6.3. Belated Restructuring of Labour Relations and Work Organization 147 -- 6.4. From Vertical Integration to Regional JIT Networks 151 -- 6.5. Moving Up-Market 153 -- 6.6. Conclusion: Delayed Restructuring and Corporate Performance 156 -- 7. The Argument Extended: Industrial Restructuring in France 158 -- 7.1. The Automobile Industry: Renault and Peugeot 159 -- 7.2. Public Services: EDF and SNCF 164 -- 7.3. The Household Appliances Sector: Moulinex and SEB 169 -- 7.4. The Steel Industry 174 -- 7.5. Understanding Outliers: Danone and Bull 177 -- 7.6. Conclusion: Large Firms in the French Political Economy 182 -- Part III. Conclusion: Large Firms and Industrial Change -- 8. Conclusion: Large Firms, Institutions, and Industrial Renewal 189 -- 8.1. France and Germany Compared 189 -- 8.2. Conclusion: Actors and Institutions Revisited 199. 
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