Title: Founders, heirs, and managers : French industrial leadership in transition /
Authors: Savage, Dean.
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Industries France; Executives France; Businessmen France.; Industrial management France; Capitalists and financiers France.; Businesspeople France.
Contents: 1. The problems of business leadership in France: a historical introduction -- 2. The outlines of French industrial structure -- 3. Explaining the size distribution of industrial firms -- 4. Firm growth rates and the allocation of founders, heirs and managers in the firm size hierarchy -- 5. The origins of industrial leadership: processes of selection -- 6. Career patterns -- 7. Conclusion.