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RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
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Lay off, downsizing, redundancy,
off shoring … many words which now belong to day to day language
refer to restructuring. None of them sounds good and all of them
refer to a blurred reality. |
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The purpose of the
MIRE project is to address and tackle certain difficulties that
such plans pose,
not to propose a new academic definition of restructuring plans.
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However, the lengthy discussions
held in early project meetings on how to define «restructuring»
highlight the merit of pinning down this concept before examining
the innovations that restructuring is intended to bring about. During
the exchanges, a consensus was reached on the fact that restructuring,
within the framework of the MIRE project, denoted «the reorganisation
of an enterprise and to the major implications it would have on
jobs». |
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Consequently, the project
focuses on how to manage jobs in a given restructuring scenario.
However, two issues raised during the discussions remained in abeyance:
the aim of restructuring, whether deliberately intended or forced
by circumstances and secondly, the timeframes for enacting restructuring
plans: the enterprises and groups, in the opinion expressed by their
representatives in the workshops, are today committed to a continuous
change dynamic. |
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These issues, however formal
they may seem, are decisive since they reflect the difficulty of
grasping the nature of restructuring and raise the question of the
ability to perceive the objectives of the MIRE project. |
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After some two years of
sharing views and information on some 30 case studies presented
by researchers from the countries committed to the project, do
we really have a clearer understanding of what «restructuring»
really entails? Can we offer a restructuring model able to impact
a set of consistent and uniform phenomena?
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Case studies: |
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The restructuring processes |
Synth processus |
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A Swedish View on restructuring processes |
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