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    Assessing the impact of private equity on industrial relations in Europe

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    Publication type
    Vlerick strategic journal article
    Author
    Bacon, Nick
    Wright, Mike
    Scholes, L.
    Meuleman, Miguel
    Publication Year
    2010
    Journal
    Human Relations
    Publication Volume
    63
    Publication Issue
    9
    Publication Begin page
    1343
    Publication End page
    1370
    
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    Abstract
    Private equity firms are accused by trade unions of changing industrial relations in buyouts by demonstrating an unwillingness to recognize and work with trade unions, and by downgrading information and consultation. To explore these important policy issues, this article reports the first representative pan-European survey of managers’ perceptions of the impact of private equity on industrial relations. Managers report that private equity investment does not result in changes to union recognition, membership density or changes in management attitudes to trade union membership. Furthermore, managers in firms recognizing unions after private equity buyouts do not report reductions in the terms and conditions subject to joint regulation. Under private equity ownership more firms report consultative committees, managers regard these as more influential on their decisions, and indicate increased consultation over firm performance and future plans. Comparing industrial relations changes in different social models in Europe, the results suggest private equity firms adapt to national systems and traditional national industrial relations differences persist after buyout.
    Keyword
    Buyouts, Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations, Private Equity, Trade Unions
    Knowledge Domain/Industry
    Accounting & Finance
    DOI
    10.1177/0018726709350087
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12127/3481
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1177/0018726709350087
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