Next session of the seminar “Businesses, Responsibilities, Civilisations”

The Business Theory Chair is pleased to invite you to its next seminar session.

“Businesses, Responsibilities, Civilisations”

« Codetermination Treaty”,

session with Olivier Favereau et Christophe Clerc

2 April 2026 from 4pm to 6pm 18h

Olivier Favereau will present his recently published book alongside Christophe Clerc. The result of a collective, multidisciplinary effort at the Collège des Bernardins, this book aims to demonstrate that the normal form of corporate governance is co-determination, a system of decision-making within companies that gives employees a fair say at all levels, from the board of directors to the works council.

Olivier Favereau is professor emeritus of economics at Paris Nanterre University. He co-directed the business research programme at the Collège des Bernardins with B. Roger and was co-director of the Economics and Society department from 2009 to 2018. Following other works he published as part of this programme, he published the “Traité de Codétermination” (Treatise on Co-determination) in 2025.

Christophe Clerc est un avocat spécialisé en droit des sociétés, gouvernance d’entreprise, procédures collectives et droit collectif du travail. Il est co-auteur du livre Les chances d’une codétermination à la française (Prisme 2013), auteur d’un rapport pour l’OIT sur les modèles de gouvernance d’entreprise dans le monde (2019), co-auteur de Propriété. Le sujet et sa chose (Seuil, 2023) et co-auteur de Political Economy of the Firm: Authority, Governance, and Economic Democracy (Routledge, 2024).He was also co-director of two series for ARTE, devoted respectively to property and currency.

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