Dr Michel Goyer

Dr Michel Goyer

Department of Management
Senior Lecturer

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Michel Goyer joined BBS in June 2013 from Warwick Business School where he was a member of the Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour group. He was also a committee member in the Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU) at Warwick. Previous appointments include visiting research fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum (Berlin), post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne), visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and visiting assistant professor at Boston University.

Qualifications

  • BA, Political Science, McGill University
  • BS, Economics, Université de Montréal
  • PhD, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Teaching

  • Capitalism, Business Cycles, and Financial Crises (Global Banking and Finance MBA)
  • Employment Relations (UG)
  • International Business Environment (Executive MBA)
  • Researching Work, Employment and Employee Relations (MSc HRM)

Research

  • Comparative Political Economy of Advanced Political Economies
  • Corporate Governance
  • International Political Economy and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Goyer, M 2011, Contingent Capital: Short-term Investors and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in France and Germany . Oxford University Press.

Article

Bhankaraully, S, Goyer, M & Aroles, J 2022, 'Workplace discrimination against LGBT employees in Mauritius: a sociological perspective', Economic and Industrial Democracy. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X221111822

Goyer, M, Glatzer, M & Valdivielso del Real , R 2021, 'The management of the Eurozone in crisis times: actors, institutions and the case of bailout packages', European Journal of Industrial Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596801211011355

Goyer, M, Clark , I & Bhankaraully, S 2016, 'Necessary and sufficient factors in employee downsizing? A qualitative comparative analysis of lay-offs in France and the UK, 2008–2013', Human Resource Management Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 252-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12101

Goyer, M, Jung, DK & Aguilera, R 2015, 'Institutions and preferences in settings of causal complexity: foreign institutional investors and corporate restructuring practices in France', International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 26, no. 16, pp. 2062-2086. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.971843

Goyer, M & Valdivielso Del Real, R 2014, 'Protection of domestic bank ownership in France and Germany : the functional equivalency of institutional diversity in takeovers', Review of International Political Economy, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 790-819. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2014.910539

Goyer, M & Valdivielso del Real , R 2012, 'Liberalization and the Evolution of the Electricity Sector: The Impact of the Market for Corporate Control in Britain and Spain (1996-2010)', Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 71-100.

Goyer, M & Jung, DK 2011, 'Diversity of Institutional Investors and Foreign Blockholdings in France: The Evolution of an Institutionally Hybrid Economy', Corporate Governance: An International Review, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 562-584. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2011.00880.x

Chapter

Goyer, M & Valdivielso del Real , R 2017, International Institutions and Supranational Influence in Employment Relations. in A Colvin, J Donaghey, T Dundon & A Wilkinson (eds), The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations. Routledge, London.

Goyer, M, Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2014, Globalization and Labor. in The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations . 1st edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 473-494.

Morgan, G & Goyer, M 2012, Is there a Global Financial System? The Locational Antecedents and Institutionally Bounded Consequences of the Financial Crisis. in G Morgan & R Whitley (eds), Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford University Press.

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