Replay of the talk: Governing businesses: the balance between law and management...
Governing businesses: the balance between law and management...
In collaboration with IQSOGOver the past forty years, corporate governance has become a major area of focus. Codes of conduct, duty of care, corporate purpose, and obligations regarding compliance, reporting on sustainability. Regulation has become more extensive as societal expectations of businesses have broadened. But does this increased regulation actually lead to real change?
This event offers a reflective look back at forty years of evolution in corporate law and corporate governance, from the perspective of a legal scholar who has observed these changes. The law is presented not as a mere normative backdrop but as a structuring agent within the company, caught between tensions between shareholder logic and broader social interests, between soft law and stricter regulation, and between the adoption of Anglo-Saxon models and the continental tradition.
Finally, she opens a space for dialogue between law and the sciences of business administration and management: what does the lawyer see that the manager does not, and vice versa, when the two disciplines discuss governance without always understanding one another?
Véronique Magnier is a professor in the Law-Economics-Management Faculty at Paris-Saclay University. She specializes in corporate law and corporate governance.