MANAGING THE RISK SOCIETY: THE QUESTIONINGS OF SOCIOLOGY TO MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

MANAGER LA SOCIÉTÉ DU RISQUE: LES INTERPELLATIONS DE LA SOCIOLOGIE AUX SCIENCES DE GESTION

Michel Casteigts ()
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Michel Casteigts: CREG - Centre de recherche et d'études en gestion - UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

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Abstract: As Ulrich Beck noted in « The Risk Society » (1986), the radical change in the threats to contemporary societies implies an equally radical change in the way in which collective action is managed and regulated. The process of globalization further aggravates the distortion between crisis-control capabilities and the reality of threats. In this context, the real challenge of public reforms lies in the ability of States to answer some questions: how can the framework and modes of action of the nation-state, which remains the unavoidable place of democratic control, be changed in a process of globalization that is accompanied by an increase in systemic risks? how can public strategies be adapted to collective action based on the paradigm of sustainable development, involving new forms of arbitrage between public goods and market activities ? In the face of these challenges, the strategies for reforming the States in and their management systems are totally obsolete. To support this finding, this paper compares the fundamental principles of organizing public action with the analyzes of a few sociologists who have particularly thought about the changes taking place: Antony Giddens and « the consequences of modernity »; Ulrich Beck and « the risk society »; Hans Jonas and « the imperative of responsibility »; Jean-Pierre Dupuy and « the enlightened catastrophism »; Francis Chateauraynaud and « the whistleblowers »; Saskia Sassen and « the global city » etc. This confrontation highlights the extent of the delay in the way public action adapts to the challenges of the contemporary world.

Keywords: risk society; sociology; management; public policies; Beck; Giddens; Jonas; Sassen; société du risque; sociologie; politiques publiques (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06-30
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Published in Colloque "Management public et politiques publiques à l'épreuve de la crise internationale", AIRMAP et la revue PMP - Institut supérieur de management (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Jun 2011, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France

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