Using an exhaustive database with labour, accounting and financial market information on French firms (1994-2000), the authors analyse the causes and the consequences of a workforce reduction in 1996 - the year chosen as reference - on firms' performance in a long term perspective. One important...

Using a large annual data base of French firms (1994-2000), this article examines the determinants of a workforce reduction of publicly-listed and non-listed companies and their consequences on firm performance. Firstly, workforce reduction appears to be a defensive response to an adverse...

Le comité d'audit joue un rôle crucial dans la protection des intérêts des actionnaires et des autres parties prenantes. En effet, son efficacité est subordonnée à ses caractéristiques qui se rapportent essentiellement sur l'indépendance de ses membres, la taille du Comité, la...