What future for codetermination and corporate governance in Germany?
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Boyer , RobertContributor(s)
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques ( PJSE )École normale supérieure - Paris ( ENS Paris ) -École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( EHESS ) -École des Ponts ParisTech ( ENPC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )
Keywords
hierarchyinstitutional complementarity
variety of capitalisms
codetermination
shareholder value
german capitalism
comparative institutional analysis
hybridization
"régulation" theory
german crisis
complementarité
hiérarchie institutionnelle
variété des capitalismes
valeur actionnariale
capitalisme rhénan
analyses institutionnelles comparées
hybridation
théorie de la régulation
crise allemande
JEL : B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches/B.B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches/B.B5.B52 - Institutional • Evolutionary
JEL : J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J5 - Labor–Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining/J.J5.J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
JEL : M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics/M.M1 - Business Administration/M.M1.M14 - Corporate Culture • Diversity • Social Responsibility
JEL : M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics/M.M5 - Personnel Economics/M.M5.M54 - Labor Management
JEL : P - Economic Systems/P.P5 - Comparative Economic Systems/P.P5.P52 - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
[ SHS.ECO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and finances
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Contrary to the prognosis derived from the variety of capitalism literature, since the mid-90s the significant restructuring of large German corporations in the direction of shareholder value seems to have been compatible with the persistence of a genuine configuration of industrial relations, including co-determination at the firm level. This article investigates whether this is a long lasting compatibility and tests various research programs in institutional economics and thus explores the consequences alternative hypotheses about institutional complementarity or hierarchy, comparative institutional analysis, comparative historical analysis, hybridization and finally régulation theory. Even if the process is highly uncertain, one major conclusion emerges: the old German model is probably irreversibly transformed and is evolving towards an unprecedented configuration, with only mild and distant relations to a typical liberal brand of capitalism.Contrairement aux pronostics avancés par la théorie de la variété des capitalismes, depuis le milieu des années 90 la considérable transformation des modes de gouvernement des grandes firmes allemandes en vue d'adopter les principes de la valeur actionnariale s'est avérée compatible avec la persistance d'une forme originale de relations professionnelles, basée sur la codétermination. Cet article s'interroge sur le caractère durable de cette configuration et s'attache à tester les conséquences de divers programmes de recherche en économie institutionnelle quant à cette question. Il explore ainsi l'hypothèse de complémentarité / hiérarchie institutionnelle puis il mobilise l'analyse institutionnelle comparative, les approches comparatives historiques. Enfin il cerne l'applicabilité de la notion d'hybridation et des problématiques inspirées par la théorie de la régulation. Même si le processus est largement ouvert, il apparaît que le modèle de capitalisme rhénan enregistre une transformation irréversible et qu'il évolue vers une configuration sans précédent, qui n'est pas la copie conforme de la forme emblématique du capitalisme de marché.
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