Invitation to the launch of the third cycle of the Business Theory Chair

The chair was created in 2015 with the ambition of rethinking corporate law based on its creative power and the responsibilities associated with it. The notion of the “mission-driven company” was one of its key proposals. Introduced by the 2019 Pacte law, there are now almost 2,000 mission-driven companies, and research can now discover the diversity of their workings as well as the originality of the systemic dynamics they generate. But the deployment of mission companies is also enabling us to explore new avenues for bringing about the necessary collective transitions.

The third cycle of the Chair will continue the study of mission-driven companies, their functioning and impact, and their possible applications on a European scale. In addition to looking at individual companies, the Chair will also broaden its scope of research into the conditions that foster collective transitions. Today, uniform regulations and coordination around major scenarios are increasingly contested. To what extent can we design collective transitions on other bases, based on local trajectories or differentiated modes of governance? What principles could guarantee sustainable management of activities, at individual, ecosystem and global levels?

We invite you to the launch of this third cycle, at which we will present a review of past research and the three axes of the new scientific program:

• Developments in mission-based companies: what practical inventions and what effects? How do they relate to sustainability regulations? European perspectives?
• New models for collective transitions: what management principles? Between “double materiality” and planning, what other criteria can be proposed to assess sustainable, efficient and fair management? Can the analysis of interdependencies between activities and ecosystems suggest principles – of reporting, investment, solidarity – adapted to the transitions to be led?
• Towards a new normative order: management standards and “interpellation rights”. From the responsibility of the legal entity to the status of the manager, the notion of “mission” invites us to rethink the frameworks that make up creative collectives, with control mechanisms, but also based on management standards that allow them to be contested or challenged by third parties.

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Programme

Ouverture
Godefroy Beauvallet, Directeur Mines Paris, PSL Université

Présentation du programme de recherche : avancées et nouvelles perspectives

Kevin Levillain et Blanche Segrestin, Mines Paris – PSL, coordonnateurs de la chaire 

Sociétés à mission : nouvelles dynamiques et horizons européens

Valérie Brisac, déléguée générale de la Communauté des Entreprises à Mission

Mickael Ristaniemi, Legal and Policy Officer, Commission européenne

Gouvernances locales, transitions globales : nouveaux enjeux pour la recherche 

Jeroen Veldman, professeur de corporate governance, Nyenrode Business Universiteit 

Jérémy Lévêque, post-doctorant, Mines Paris – PSL  

Transitions écologiques : le défi des nouvelles compétences 

Antoine Frérot, Président de Veolia 

Armand Hatchuel, professeur émérite, Mines Paris – PSL