A weakened or protective status for the public enterprise? Public utility missions and the French post’s relationship with the State

Un statut fragilisé ou protecteur pour l’entreprise publique ? Missions de service public et rapport à l’État de l’entreprise La Poste

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Nadège Vezinat: REGARDS - Recherches en Économie Gestion AgroRessources Durabilité Santé- EA 6292 - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne - MSH-URCA - Maison des Sciences Humaines de Champagne-Ardenne - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CMH - Centre Maurice Halbwachs - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Département de Sciences sociales ENS-PSL - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

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Abstract: Public enterprises have a specific relationship with the State. This article pays close attention to the formal commitments between these firms and the State, drawing on the case of La Poste. A former public administrative body that became a public enterprise in 1991 and signed a contract formalizing its relation with the State, La Poste has gone from a public hierarchy within the State to an autonomous body that has seen a loosening of its relations with other entities of the State. This article highlights how the State contractualizes with postal services to maintain polarized missions. In the new context that emerges from the development of a public enterprise, formally separated from the State, this latter appears to be not only a shareholder but also a partner.

Keywords: French Post; Governance; New Public Management; Plan Contract; Public Enterprise; Public Service; Regulation; régulation; gouvernance; contrat de plan; La Poste; entreprise; État; Statut; entreprise publique; service public; new public management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Droit & société : théorie et sciences sociales du droit. [Carnet hypotheses.org], 2019, 103, pp.669-689. ⟨10.3917/drs1.103.0669⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/drs1.103.0669

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