Towards a relational view of corporate governance to preserve the biosphere

Saves, Magali; Bastianutti, Julie

Type de document :

Autre communication scientifique (congrès sans actes - poster - séminaire...): Communication dans un congrès avec actes

URL permanente :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/86942

Titre :

Towards a relational view of corporate governance to preserve the biosphere

Auteur(s) :

Saves, Magali [Auteur]

Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 [CLERSÉ]
Bastianutti, Julie []

Lille University Management Lab - ULR 4999 [LUMEN]

Titre de la manifestation scientifique :

EURAM (European Academy of Management ) 2023 :Transforming business for good

Organisateur(s) de la manifestation scientifique :

European Academy of Management

Ville :

Dublin

Pays :

Irlande

Date de début de la manifestation scientifique :

2023-06-14

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

corporate governance
environmental sustainability
boards of directors
biosphere
collective action

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Gestion et management
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Given the ecological emergency, companies have to consider the interests of the biosphere in their decision-making processes. Protecting the biosphere implies adopting a vision of the world in which this sphere embraces ...
Lire la suite >Given the ecological emergency, companies have to consider the interests of the biosphere in their decision-making processes. Protecting the biosphere implies adopting a vision of the world in which this sphere embraces and restricts the social sphere, which itself frames the economic sphere, and in which all human and non-human actors should be considered (Petit et al., 2022). We show that recent developments in French corporate governance practices, while allowing them to better address ecological issues, do not embrace this worldview developed by the field of Ecological Economics that we adopt in this article. According to this framework, corporate governance needs to include representatives of the biosphere in its decision-making structures, which poses challenges insofar as it implies allowing non-humans to have their say. Several proposals have been put forward to "green" companies by including employees, local populations or scientists in their decision-making processes. We show that each category of stakeholder cannot ensure the representation of the biosphere's interests on its own. Since talking about the biosphere implies considering the interdependencies within it, only a diverse collective, a common, seems relevant to represent its interests. However, giving a place to biosphere representatives does not prefigure the real political power of these representatives over corporate decisions. As the consensus-building process tends to lead to the triumph of economic interests over ecological interests (Nyberg and Wright, 2013), it seems justified to us to allow a veto right to these representatives, in line with Banerjee's (2018) proposals.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

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Date de dépôt :

2023-09-07T06:07:57Z

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