Le rôle des réseaux patronaux dans la diffusion de la gestion des compétences en France

Thierry Colin () and Benoît Grasser ()
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Thierry Colin: CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine
Benoît Grasser: CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine

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Abstract: Written from a neo-institutionalist standpoint, this paper focuses on the influence of employers' networks on the dissemination of managerial practices through the example of skill management in French companies. Previous studies suggest that employers' organizations can be perceived as social networks that affect Human resources policies. Studying the development of skill management confirms the idea that this type of management becomes institutionalized under the influence of such networks. We evaluate this influence through the use of a quantitative methodology that shows the correlation between the dissemination of skill management techniques and the number of chief executives belonging to employers' networks in a given company. We use data that were collected from 3,000 companies by the French Ministry of Labour for the Réponse survey. Our approach led us to formulate a brief―but new―account of employers' networks in France. But mostly, it allowed us to measure the impact that

Keywords: INDUSTRIAL relations; EMPLOYERS; BUSINESS enterprises; PERSONNEL management; PERSONNEL directors; PROFESSIONAL associations; SOCIAL networks; QUANTITATIVE research; SOCIETIES; etc.; FRANCE; employer; institutions; networks; skills; competencia; empresariado; instituciones; redes; compétence; patronat; réseaux (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012, 67 (3), pp.375 - 397. ⟨10.7202/1012536ar⟩

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DOI: 10.7202/1012536ar

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