Les enjeux d'une démocratie organisationnelle: exigences, dérives et conséquences

Yoann Bazin ()
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Yoann Bazin: ISTEC - Institut supérieur des Sciences, Techniques et Economie Commerciales - ISTEC

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Abstract: For more than a decade, organizations have slowly added a new vocabulary to their daily operations. They call themselves « accountable », « supportive » or, at least, « sustainable », and stand for « ethical » values, if not for « social justice ». Some of them even claim to be « democratic » and « citizens ». This evolution occurred under the pressure of harsher and harsher critics against corporations, but also thanks to the will of emerging actors looking to innovate through new models and values. The aim of this article is not to judge, validate or reject these initiatives, but rather to take them seriously. Since it is the vocabulary of political sciences that is used, we will use its references and concepts in order to clarify the notion of democracy, and thus contemplate the expectations, drifts and consequences it could have when applied to organizations. We will confront these analysis to a specific model that is progressively institutionalizing in France: SCOPs. It is not the prescription of an organizational model that we are developing here, neither is it a critic of this desire (and claim) of democratic spirit, but an academic imperative of rigorous,and systematic examination of what it would imply.

Keywords: democracy; citizenship; political sciences; cooperatives; démocratie; citoyenneté; sciences politique; coopérative; SCOP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in Management & sciences sociales, 2017, Mieux-être au travail : repenser le management et l’émergence de la personne, 22, pp.140-152

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