📝 La mise en oeuvre du devoir de vigilance : une managérialisation de la loi ?

►Full Reference: Barraud de Lagerie, P., Béthoux, E, Mias, A., Penalva Icher, E., 📝 La mise en oeuvre du devoir de vigilance : une managérialisation de la loi ?, in  Droit et Société, 2020/3 n° 106, p. 699-714.

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►English Summary of the Article:(done by the Authors) : Implementing the Corporate Duty of Vigilance: A Case of Managerialization of Law?

The 2017 French Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law obliges companies within its scope to draw up a “vigilance plan” and to publish it immediately in their next annual management report.

The article analyzes how these first “vigilance plans” were drafted in 2018-2019. Following Lauren B. Edelman's theory of legal endogeneity, the authors question how the French law is being incorporated by companies and they examine the extent to which a process of managerialization shapes these plans.

Firstly, the authors argue that companies have heavily relied on pre-existing tools and policies, while taking the drafting of the plans as an opportunity to rationalize these tools.

Secondly, the authors argue that this managerialization of law occurs under the critical eye of the nongovernmental organizations that actively contributed to the statute’s adoption and that promote alternative ways for its implementation. Duty of vigilance – Endogenization of law – Implementation – Managerialization – Multinational companies. 

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