From national champion to international champion

Du champion national au champion international

Scott Viallet-Thevenin ()
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Scott Viallet-Thevenin: CSO - Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This article focuses on the institutions which drive the functioning of the economy. It takes the National Champion model as a case study, a strategy which involved the support of state-owned firms by the French government in the 1990s. This model has been supported successively by the Direction de l'énergie in the 1990s and the Agence des participations de l'État in the 2000s and 2010s. It is a strategy which has been contested over the last two decades by both the European Commission and its liberalization programs, and by the privatization of a substantial part of the French energy industry. As a result, the model has been adapted. Initially considered as policy tools, firms have been offered incentives to develop for financial reasons. I will show that the gradual shift in this model is largely due to senior civil servants adapting it according to European Commission demands.

Date: 2015
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Published in Revue Française de Science Politique, 2015, 65, pp.761-783. ⟨10.3917/rfsp.655.0761⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/rfsp.655.0761

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