The Influence of Stock Market Listing on Human Resource Managment: Evidence for France and Britain

Neil Conway, Simon Deakin, Suzzanne J. Konzelmann, Héloïse Petit, Antoine Reberioux and Frank Wilkinson

Working Papers from Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge

Abstract: We use data from REPONSE 2004 and WERS 2004 to analyse whether approaches to HRM differ according to whether an establishment is part of a company with a stock exchange listing. In both countries we find that listing is positively associated with teamworking and performance-related pay, while in France, but not in Britain, it is also linked to worker autonomy and training. Our findings are inconsistent with the claim that shareholder pressure operates as a constraint on the adoption of high-performance workplace practices. The pattern is similar in the two countries, but with a slightly stronger tendency for listing to be associated with high-performance workplace practices in France.

Keywords: corporate governance; human resource management; employment relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G32 G38 J53 J88 K22 K31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cfn, nep-eec, nep-lab and nep-law
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