Un événement fortement médiatisé du printemps 1988 nous amène à considérer la rhétorique comme un outil de gestion à part entière. En l'espace de quelques mois, trois entreprises industrielles françaises vont s'affronter dans des stratégies de rapprochement divergentes. Alors même...

This article shows how management consultant’s daily transgression practices favour semi-confidential information diffusion, which has the effect of improving managers’ strategic decision making. By their marginal transgressions (namely confidentiality rule breaking), consultants act as...

(VF)L’article analyse les interactions entre dynamiques actionnariales et concurrentielles dans la stratégie des grandes multinationales agroalimentaires en Europe. Il révèle l’émergence d’un nouveau modèle de firme globale et financiarisée. Ces firmes, d’origine tant européenne...

L’analyse de la performance post Public to Private transactions est un aspect de la revue

Strategy is made of moves, counter-moves, adjustments, actions and reactions. It is founded on an ever-changing external and internal context where numerous actors continuously modify the rules of the game. In these contexts, managers can’t rely on effective planned processes. They have to...

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the data permit us to track the privatization process and to...

This paper analyses the causes of managerial change and the impact of different reforms on firm performance, using survey data from 300 Ukrainian firms. The main findings are: 1) ownership and competition are linked to managerial change: de novo firms but also privatised firms experienced less...

In our article we present the use of hybrid securities in the privatization process. We show that exchangeable bonds may be successfully applied during privatization of state companies throughout the world. It may be profitable for many reasons. Firstly, the exchangeables offer a much lower...

We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis...