Seminar “Businesses, Responsibilities, Civilizations”
Seminar “Businesses, Responsibilities, Civilizations”
The Business Theory Chair is pleased to invite you to the next session of the session.
“Businesses, Responsibilities, Civilizations”
November 20, 2025
from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
(hybrid version)
Corporate responsibility in a context of socialization
with Pierre-Yves Gomez
Economist, professor emeritus at emlyon Business School, founder of the French Institute of Corporate Directors
at Mines Paris PSL
60 boulevard saint Michel
75006 PARIS
(Mandatory registration)
Corporate responsibility
Abstract: Corporate social and economic responsibility cannot be understood in isolation: it takes on meaning in relation to the socio-political environment that shapes it and to which it contributes. Since the 1970s, speculative capitalism and the specific social consensus that accompanies it have formed the frame of reference for contemporary businesses.
After analyzing financialization (as a process of valuation) and digitalization (as a technical reference system), my work focuses on a third movement that structures this model of capitalism: socialization, understood as the claim to govern organizations in response to society’s expectations. This lecture will address the origin and content of the concept and its implications for understanding and implementing corporate responsibility today.
Pierre-Yves Gomez is an economist, professor emeritus at emlyon business school, founder of the French Institute of Corporate Governance, and former visiting professor and researcher at London Business School. A specialist in the role of business in society, he has published some fifteen books on governance, labor, and the transformation of capitalism. A columnist for Le Monde newspaper, he is also a member of several boards of directors and corporate mission committees.