At the very heart of financial dominance: the case of LBOs

Isabelle Chambost (1)

1 LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action

This chapter analyses the way in which financial dominance is expressed in financial arrangements by studying in turn their discursive, material and political dimensions. We will show how these arrangements result from a gradual construction, linked to different strata of power relations, based on the private equity industry.

Keywords: Private equity funds; Social studies of finance; Financiarisation

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences

Isabelle Chambost. At the very heart of financial dominance: the case of LBOs. Isabelle Chambost; Marc Lenglet; Yamina Tadjeddine. The making of finance. Perspectives from the social sciences, Routledge, pp.226-236, 2019, 978-1-138-49857-0. ⟨10.4324/9781351016117-29⟩. ⟨hal-02106245⟩