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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hancké, Bob
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Big business > France > History > 20th century.
Organizational change > France > Case studies.
France > Economic conditions > 1981-1995.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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