Launch of the third cycle: Business Theory Models and Collective Creation

Ecological transition Institutional

9 April

Le lancement du troisième cycle de la chaire : Théorie de l’Entreprise, Modèles et Création Collective se déroulera le mercredi 9 avril 2025, de 17h à 19h, à Mines Paris – PSL.

The chair was created in 2015 with the aim of rethinking company law based on its creative power and the responsibilities associated with it. The concept of the ‘mission-driven company’ was one of its main proposals. Introduced by the 2019 Pacte law, there are now almost 2,000 mission-driven companies, and research can now discover the diversity of their operations as well as the originality of the systemic dynamics they generate. But the deployment of mission-driven companies also makes it possible to explore new ways of bringing about the necessary collective transitions.

The chair’s third cycle will continue the study of mission-driven companies, their operations and impacts and their possible variations at the European level. Beyond individual companies, the chair will also broaden its field of research to include the conditions that favour collective transitions. Today, uniform regulations and coordination around major scenarios are increasingly being challenged. To what extent can collective transitions be conceived on other bases, based on local trajectories or differentiated modes of governance? What principles could guarantee the sustainable management of activities at the individual, ecosystemic and global levels?

We invite you to the launch of this third cycle, during which we will present an assessment of past research as well as the three axes of the new scientific programme:

Developments of mission-driven societies: what practical inventions and what effects? How do they relate to sustainability regulations? What are the European perspectives?
New models of collective transitions: what management principles? Between ‘dual materiality’ and planning, what other criteria can be proposed to evaluate sustainable, efficient and fair management? Can the analysis of interdependencies between activities and ecosystems suggest principles – of reporting, investment, solidarity – adapted to the transitions to be made?
Towards a new normative order: management standards and ‘rights of challenge’. From the responsibility of the legal person to the status of the manager, the notion of ‘mission’ invites us to rethink the frameworks that constitute creative collectives with control mechanisms, but also based on management standards that allow them to be challenged or questioned by third parties.