Corporate duty of vigilance in France: The path of an improbable statute

La loi sur le devoir de vigilance des sociétés multinationales: parcours d’une loi improbable

Guillaume Delalieux
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Guillaume Delalieux: ULR - La Rochelle Université

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Abstract: This article offers an analysis of the resistance encountered by defenders (NGOs and trade unions) of the French Law on Corporate Duty of Vigilance. These actors sought to behave as institutional entrepreneurs deploying intense advocacy and lobbying efforts in order to successfully have this bill tabled, examined, and ultimately passed by the French government. In light of this case, the concept of "institutional entrepreneurship" is discussed and then relativized by the use of Machiavelli's notion of "Fortuna," in order to describe the "improbable" adoption of this statute. The results tend to put into perspective the importance that individual actors, including collective ones, can have in the explanation of institutional change, in favor of a multi-level analysis of change (micro, meso, macro).

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsability CSR; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Duty of vigilance; NGO; Trade Union; Devoir de vigilance; ONG; RSE - Responsabilité sociale des entreprises; Syndicats (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-09
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Published in Droit & société : théorie et sciences sociales du droit. [Carnet hypotheses.org], 2020, 106 (3), pp.649-665

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