Les représentations professionnelles en question. Le cas des intermédiaires dans les fusions-acquisitions |
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Authors: | Valérie Boussard Marie-Anne Dujarier |
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Institution: | 1. Institutions et dynamiques historiques de l’économie et de la société (IDHES), UMR 8533 CNRS et Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 200, avenue de la République, 92100 Nanterre Cedex;2. Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique (LISE), UMR 3320 CNAM et CNRS, 2, rue Conté, Case 1LAB40, 75003 Paris;3. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris III, 13, rue Santeuil, 75005 Paris |
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Abstract: | One sector of finance, relatively unfamiliar to the public, has nevertheless been growing fast for the last 30 years. This sector, known as M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions), specialises in the sale or purchase of companies. The middlemen who carry out the transactions are not the owners of the companies they buy or sell. They perform a set of socially divided and organised tasks and possess specific expertise. This article seeks to analyse these financial middlemen as workers, and in particular to understand their professional representation of the companies that they help to buy or sell. We show that the people working in this sector share a commodified, quantitative and abstract representation of the companies bought and sold. Through an analysis of activity, professional rhetoric, socialisation processes and career dynamics, the article shows how the homogeneity of this representation is constructed and maintained. |
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Keywords: | Finance Fusions-acquisitions Repré sentations Profession Abstraction Quantification Marchandisation |
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