Private equity in the UK: job regulation and trade unions

Clark, I ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7698-2715, 2009. Private equity in the UK: job regulation and trade unions. Journal of Industrial Relations, 51 (4), pp. 489-500. ISSN 0022-1856

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Abstract

Private equity represents a ‘new actor’ in the British business system with the capacity to have a significant impact on industrial relations. However, while private equity and its associated business model appear as significant factors in corporate governance and industrial relations, neither the sector nor the business model has been evaluated theoretically or empirically. Indeed, for the UK at firm level the ways in which business strategy and job regulation are shaped by private equity are unclear other than by references made to institutional configuration in the business system — short-termism. This article outlines what private equity is, details its associated business model, describes how the sector affects workers and summarizes how trade unions have responded to the private equity business model.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Industrial Relations
Creators:	Clark, I.
Publisher:	Sage
Date:	2009
Volume:	51
Number:	4
ISSN:	0022-1856
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1177/0022185609339514 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	19 Nov 2018 13:13
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2018 13:13
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/35056

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