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Management Buyouts and Human Resource Management

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  • Nicolas Bacon
  • Mike Wright
  • Natalia Demina

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This paper reports the findings from a survey of the effects of management buyouts on human resource management (HRM). Buyouts resulted in increased employment, the adoption of new reward systems, and expanded employee involvement. These developments support the resource‐based view that buyouts develop internal assets over agency theory predictions that managers will adopt a cost reduction approach. The type of buyout influences the subsequent development of HRM. Buyouts report more commitment‐orientated employment policies where employees own shares, and where the buyout pursues a ‘buy and build’ corporate strategy and adopts a business strategy of enhancing customer service and developing markets.

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  • Nicolas Bacon & Mike Wright & Natalia Demina, 2004. "Management Buyouts and Human Resource Management," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 42(2), pages 325-347, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:brjirl:v:42:y:2004:i:2:p:325-347
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2004.00317.x
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    1. Blind, Georg D. & Lottanti von Mandach, Stefania, 2021. "Private Equity Buyouts in Japan: Effects on Employment Numbers," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 59(C).
    2. Nick Bacon & Kim Hoque & Mike Wright, 2019. "Is Job Insecurity Higher in Leveraged Buyouts?," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 57(3), pages 479-512, September.
    3. Loris Guery & Anne Stevenot & Geoffrey T. Wood & Chris Brewster, 2017. "The Impact of Private Equity on Employment: The Consequences of Fund Country of Origin—New Evidence from France," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 56(4), pages 723-750, October.
    4. Agrawal, Ashwini & Tambe, Prasanna, 2016. "Private equity and workers’ career paths: the role of technological change," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 69476, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    5. Martin, Graeme & Farndale, Elaine & Paauwe, Jaap & Stiles, Philip G., 2016. "Corporate governance and strategic human resource management: Four archetypes and proposals for a new approach to corporate sustainability," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 34(1), pages 22-35.
    6. Nick Bacon & Mike Wright & Miguel Meuleman & Louise Scholes, 2012. "The Impact of Private Equity on Management Practices in European Buy-outs: Short-termism, Anglo-Saxon, or Host Country Effects?," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51, pages 605-626, April.
    7. Aurélie Sannajust & Alexander Groh, 2023. "Pioneering management buy-out and entrepreneurial finance research: Mike Wright’s research legacy," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 60(1), pages 1-35, January.

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