La Société Coopérative de Production (SCOP): vers une gouvernance éthique ou vers une nouvelle hypocrisie managériale ?

Philippe Pasquet () and Sébastien Liarte ()
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Philippe Pasquet: CREOP - Centre de Recherches sur l'Entreprise, les Organisations et le Patrimoine - GIO - Gouvernance des Institutions et des Organisations - UNILIM - Université de Limoges
Sébastien Liarte: CREOP - Centre de Recherches sur l'Entreprise, les Organisations et le Patrimoine - GIO - Gouvernance des Institutions et des Organisations - UNILIM - Université de Limoges

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Abstract: The emergence of ethical issues in business has led to renewed interest for the governance mechanisms. Finding its origins in the nineteenth century under the impetus of a utopian socialist thought and sustained by Marxism, the cooperative enterprise (SCOP) is a consequence of this process. Indeed, the SCOP is presented as an ethical type of governance by allowing the empowerment of employees because of the disappearance of informational asymmetries between the members of the organization and a strong reduction of the profit orientation. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the SCOP is, in practice, an ethical type of governance. The analysis of different cooperative enterprises in France demonstrates that this kind of organization have different specificities in their governance mechanisms that can have negative consequences for employees. More importantly, it is shown that the SCOP can be used by leaders in order to dominate their employees.

Keywords: Governance; Agency theory; Critical studies; SCOP; Gouvernance; Théorie de l'agence; Théorie critique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-05-27
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Published in Journée de recherche CEDAG " Ethique et Sciences de Gestion ", May 2011, PARIS, France. pp.282-296

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