L’entreprise et ses actionnaires

Pierre Francois (), Claire Lemercier () and Thomas Reverdy ()
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Pierre Francois: CSO - Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Claire Lemercier: CSO - Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Thomas Reverdy: Sciences Po - Sciences Po, INPG - Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble

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Abstract: Here we present a review of the literature on big business and investigate the conditions for its existence and the historic incarnations of what is its foundation, capitalistic investment. We look at two critical periods for this organizational form: the establishment of integrated big businesses at the end of the nineteenth century and the shareholder revolution at the end of the twentieth century. While referring in particular to the development of legal support for capitalistic investment and the consequences for employees for the adoption of shareholder value, we focus on the issue of relations between shareholders and managers.

Keywords: Corporation; Capitalism; Shareholder; Economic elites; Financialization; Entreprise; Capitalisme; Actionnaire; Élites économiques; Financiarisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-07
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Published in Revue française de sociologie, 2015, 56 (3), pp.501-524. ⟨10.3917/rfs.563.0501⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/rfs.563.0501

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