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Gouvernement des entreprises et stratégie du dirigeant:une étude clinique dans le secteur de l'assurance

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This article is about the way of combining different governance mechanisms during the decision-making process. In particular, we study the strategic growth of AXA, an insurance group, from 1987 to 1994, and how its manager used mutual-specific governance mechanisms to maintain his discretionary power. We focus on the parent company, a mutual, and on its board of director's membership and its specialization. We also show how important informal mechanisms, like corporate culture and manager networks are for acquiring firms.

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  • Fabrice Roth, 2000. "Gouvernement des entreprises et stratégie du dirigeant:une étude clinique dans le secteur de l'assurance," Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie, revues.org, vol. 3(4), pages 179-199, December.
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