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Can an industrial group be restructured “properly”?
[Peut-on restructurer un groupe industriel « proprement » ?]

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  • Nicolas Berland

    (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Through the history of the Saint-Gobain group between the merger with Pont-à-Mousson in 1970 to the end of the 1990s, we show how the necessary organizational adjustments were made to both implement a new strategy and coping with external shocks on the business. The dismissals that followed were carried out as part of workforce redeployment operations. Although Saint-Gobain did not invent this system, it helped to popularize it to make it a mechanism for social treatment of workforce reductions which will then be taken up by law. Through this example, it is a singular variety of capitalism that emerges, for which labor is not a simple adjustment variable.

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  • Nicolas Berland, 2023. "Can an industrial group be restructured “properly”? [Peut-on restructurer un groupe industriel « proprement » ?]," Post-Print hal-04136456, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04136456
    DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-15048-0.p.0057
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