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When the State Managerializes the law. Enforcing and Commodifying Disability Inclusion

Rachel Le Marois () and Lisa Buchter ()
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Rachel Le Marois: CRIS - Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, EM - EMLyon Business School
Lisa Buchter: EM - EMLyon Business School

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Abstract: While France has passed laws stating that companies need to have 6% of disabled workers in their workforce, few organizations meet this quota today. Our article seeks to explain this enforcement gap by showing the role of the state in managerializing the law. We show how the state has contributed to shifting attention away from a focus on anti-discrimination, stressing instead financial concerns for companies (penalties for non-compliance, accounting techniques to circumvent this quota). Drawing on a two-year qualitative fieldwork, we trace how this managerialization of the law by state actors led to a commodification of disability inclusion in France.

Keywords: Disabilities; Disabled Workers; Anti-Discrimination Measures; Disability inclusion; Managerialization of disability laws; Commodification of disability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-06-17
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Published in Academy of Management, 85th Annual Meeting, 2025, Jul 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025, ⟨10.5465/AMPROC.2025.178bp⟩

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DOI: 10.5465/AMPROC.2025.178bp

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