Country of origin effects and new financial actors: private equity investment and work and employment practices in French firms
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Guery, Loris
Wood, Geoffrey
Brewster, Chris
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This is a study of the effects of alternative investors on a range of work and employment practices in France, paying specific attention to whether investors are indigenous or not. We use data from a detailed survey of French firms, and set our research in the context of the literature on comparative capitalisms. We find that private equity (PE) investments from abroad are associated with greater job insecurity, less spending on training and lower wages, but French PE investments are not. We explore the reasons behind this variation and the implications for theory and practice.
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British Journal of Industrial Relations
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56
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© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/London School of Economics. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Country of origin effects and new financial actors: private equity investment and work and employment practices in French firms, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 56 (4), pp. 723-750, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12193. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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Stevenot, A; Guery, L; Wood, G; Brewster, C, Country of origin effects and new financial actors: private equity investment and work and employment practices in French firms, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 56 (4), pp. 723-750