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The one caution must be that Germany hardly represents a coupon pool capitalism and the observation of union influence is made in the later stages of an economic upswing. The German auto industry is a high breakeven industry which would be forced into loss by a sustained downturn which could represent the last instance for the local accommodations of the industry. The addition of all these qualifications adds intellectual subtlety and real indeterminacy and raises a key question. Can a generic concept, like coupon pool capitalism work to produce a strong story line about dynamics and how is corporate and household behaviour is changed after financialisation.
These questions are answered in the next section.
Dynamics and Story Line: The cases considered below are the US and UK, the two advanced capitalist countries where financialisation has created large scale flows and the coupon pool has been inaugurated as a regulatory institution for firms and households. Because the cases are complex, our analysis focuses on three sites firms, households and the coupon pool and at each site starts from some key empirics before identifying the key contradictions which drive the dynamics. Although behaviour and norms are mutable and the future is uncertain, the analysis does generate a story line which could be summed up as the opposite of regulationism.
Since the end of the long boom, the regulationists have sought a new growth regime or a set of institutional conditions under which coherence could be restored to bring us 30 more glorious years of stable prosperity: Our contrarian story is about how the coupon pool intensifies contradictions and inaugurates incoherence at the level of firms and households at the same time as it increases instability: In the US business press, financialisation manifests itself as a change in the mentality of US managers who now worry about pressures from the stock market not Japanese competitors.
Back in the 80s manufacturing competition was represented in physical terms centred on product and process, with American consumers making Japanese firms like Toyota into winners. Now management focuses on financial results for the capital market in a world where American management can regain its leadership role and GE under Jack Welch is the model. US chief executives cannot publicly dissent from this new rhetoric though their conduct raises quite interesting questions about commitment and delivery because most of these CEOs are on stock option plans where the targets for share price increase and earnings growth are hardly aggressive.
The financial returns to management effort so far are mixed and disappointing. In the s, the UK and US stock markets set two targets: But, although share prices went up, most US and UK corporations struggled to raise return on capital despite an economic upturn: Our alternative and more plausible explanation is that there are structural limits on cost recovery and the rate of return in most activities FROUD, b.
This explanation is certainly consonant with the observation that high return corporations in the UK typically operate in sectors like pharmaceuticals, software media and tobacco where they have special case advantages like intellectual property rights, brands and immateriality which cannot be generalised FROUD, a.
In other sectors, the expectations of the stock market have done no more than establish a long term operating contradiction between what the capital market requires and what management can deliver in most activities from competitive product markets even with the benefits of flexibilised labour markets. The medium term resolution of this contradiction depends not on management effort but on whether and how the stock market changes its expectations, especially in response to a downturn when most corporations would spectacularly destroy value.
One might suppose that it would be sensible for the market to recognise the limits of management against structural forces and to vary the hurdle rate by activity. But, a first experiment with capital market double standards has already ended in market crash and corporate bankruptcies. The temporary availability of free capital only encouraged some new economy companies like Amazon to adopt unsound business models with no cost recovery from operations so that these firms could only keep going as long as the capital market provided new finance FROUD, d.
In the old or new economy, the convention is now that the stock market leads and corporate management follows: But, the contradictions between rhetoric and result are such that the stock market cannot systematically impose "discipline" on managements which fail to deliver value. If the stock market identifies an easy value increasing option, such as selling out to a hostile bidder or unbundling the businesses, then underperforming managements will be punished.
But even here, the solution may not be straightforward. When British Telecom was burdened with debt after bidding for third generation licenses, in late the market pressured management into planning a break up by selling off mobile, directory and landline businesses; and then valued mobile companies so low that the break up of BT had to be postponed. Many underperforming managements can hope to survive with lame promises of improvement and a judicious change of senior figureheads.
Survival prospects are generally good where the market does not know what to do about the sector, as with Ford or GM in volume cars; or where the individual firm has hard to solve problems which deter takeover, as with Marks and Spencer in the UK. But if corporate managements do not and cannot deliver the shareholder value they promise, they do change their behaviour in ways which shift the old boundaries of firm and industry and create a new competition. These important developments can be illustrated by considering the global auto business.
Here GM, Ford and all the other big volume car corporations have failed to deliver adequate returns on capital largely because they operate in mature cyclical product markets, though an elite group including Ford and Toyota has matched the national share price index. Globalisation has aggravated problems because no volume company has been able to put together a portfolio of profitable positions in two of the major three regional markets: Against this background, the pressure for financial results encourages a focus on low and high return divisions and activities which, in turn, encourages divergent thinking about core activities.
Generally, the fashion for vertically disintegrated firms is encouraged as firms occupy less of the supply chain and use power against those up stream and downstream. Old productionist definitions of an industry, as the group of firms producing competing products, are displaced.
Firms instead start to think in terms of the sector matrix which includes all the competing and complementary goods and services necessary to a function like motoring or health care FROUD, Thus, Ford signals that components can be bought in more profitably by spinning off its components business as Visteon; it also questions whether assembly is a core activity by experimenting with outsourced assembly in Brazil; and at the same time buys service businesses and builds finance businesses which promise more profit FROUD, e. At the same time, transforming moves are hard to find for a company like Ford which is making more than five million cars a year and is already strong in the most obvious related service business of car finance.
If individual companies cannot easily be reinvented, sectoral dynamics are often transformed. At sectoral level, the general result is a more anarchic competition of all against all with increasingly unpredictable results. Thus, all the car companies, including specialists like BMW, are now trying to build up finance businesses of the kind which only Ford and GM have traditionally run.
This brings the car companies into competition with all the old and new suppliers of personal finance from banks to supermarkets.
Furthermore, in most global businesses, financialised corporations oriented to the capital market compete with productionist corporations oriented to product market and labour process achievements. The results of such contests are especially unpredictable because we have no experience of coupon pool capitalism in recession and do not know whether and how the stock market would force US companies into retreat in a downturn.
The gentle weakening of the US car market has already encouraged Ford and GM to cut back on their loss making European operations and build up cash reserves from which dividends could be maintained. Within this context of an unpredictable new competition, the only safe prediction is that the gap between expectation and outcome will drive corporate management towards ever more restructuring in financialised economies where the flood of savings on to the market makes it easy to sell new securities. If Count Basie famously decided that the answer was to play fewer notes, management under coupon pool capitalism has a different aesthetic and favours ever more signals and moves.
Expect more merger and acquisition, divestments, rightsizing, outsourcing, buy outs and buy ins which incidentally make like for like performance comparisons very difficult. Also expect lots of financial engineering involving share buy backs, tax dodges, sale and leaseback, pension fund contribution holidays and such like which start from the cynical premise that the market is easily impressed by earnings. But, in the absence of value, restructuring and financial engineering which promise temporary relief are quite good enough in a world where the managements of blue chips now resort to the cheap tricks which were the prerogative of dodgy conglomerates like Hanson in the s.
If new corporate norms and behaviours are the highly visible elements of coupon pool capitalism. Political economists who assume that the behaviour of corporate managers does matter, need to be persuaded that the behaviour of individuals in households also matters.
Coupon pool capitalism includes both insofar as they are influenced by the capital market and refocuses attention on the household, an important institution now mainly discussed by communitarians and the radical right. Coupon pool capitalism also highlights inequality, a desperately unfashionable issue in the UK where Third Way thinkers, like Giddens, prefer to talk about social exclusion. Our aim here is to re-establish the economic salience of inequality by highlighting how financialisation promotes circuits of accumulation which accelerate inequality in ways that increase the importance of the household.
The household savings circuit through the stock market directly accelerates the inequalities of old age and ensures that a majority of the population derives little benefit from any distribution of dividends or the rise of corporate share prices. But the fortunate forty percent is not a homogeneous group. At the top end, it includes a small number of enriched managers, who benefit from high salaries and stock options or ipos which have been hugely rewarding in the long bull market of the 90s. The chief executives of US giant corporations are now routinely paid in millions per year: Even in an unexciting UK blue chip like Shell, the chief executive earned 1.
In the long bull market of the s, share options for top managers acted as a mechanism which shifted some lucky managers out of the salariate. But, at the bottom end, the fortunate forty per cent includes many households of people like us.
The fortunate forty percent includes many public sector professionals in education, health and social services whose modest salaries have at best risen with the cost of living for the past twenty years. The existence of an enriched group has emerging consequences for national identity, social cohesion and patterns of demand.
For the time being, in a world of globalisation our stock markets are still, rather curiously, organised on a national basis: Global reach has traditionally been provided by the corporate managers of quoted MNCs not by the pension fund managers who trade their shares. But, that is likely to change with mergers between national exchanges which are currently on the agenda. The managerially enriched can then become members of an increasingly rootless English speaking cosmopolitan elite with assets and homes in several countries, a large demand for personal services and little in common with the poorer citizens of any country.
If gross inequalities of wealth and income become part of metropolitan capitalism, this is likely to encourage the further development of bipolar patterns of demand; with a proliferation of ill paid retail and personal service jobs that could be filled by locals or immigrants. All this could be represented as, the recreation of the third world in the first as part of a future whose social tone is more like Brazil than Nordic social democracy. Although the managerially enriched are fascinating, for much the same reason as lottery winners, they will be few in number and much more depends on the prospects of the ordinary people on modest incomes in Quintile 4 households or those in lower income households in Quintile 3 and 2 households who have no realistic hope of security through the stockmarket.
The household is an increasingly important institution for such individuals. The household has always been an active shaper of consumption and savings patterns and an influence on living standards: In the advanced societies, the household has generally become more important with the dissolution of social settlements since the s.
Again, like previous popular management concepts, shareholder value has a strong religious element when the vignettes in consultancy texts show how purposive management is gratifyingly rewarded with improved financial results for shareholders. Survival prospects are generally good where the market does not know what to do about the sector, as with Ford or GM in volume cars; or where the individual firm has hard to solve problems which deter takeover, as with Marks and Spencer in the UK. Furthermore, the logics of financialisation will hardly abolish or effortlessly overcome the operation of other logics inside and outside any coupon pool capitalism for three reasons: Classification reduces inexactitude and misunderstanding by encouraging controlled and precise definitions of the kind that have too often been missing in, for example, debates about globalisation. The one caution must be that Germany hardly represents a coupon pool capitalism and the observation of union influence is made in the later stages of an economic upswing.