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Axis 2 "Organizations" summer scientific day: contracts, institutions, risks

Published on 08/06/2023

Presentation 1:

Speaker: Emmanuel Cherrier
Title: Around the principle of legitimacy
Summary:
At the heart of politics lies the principle of legitimacy. Each institution, each elected official can only assume a political role if he or she is endowed with legitimacy.
Whether we seek it through a coup d'état, on territory disputed by parties, whether it underpins the action of public administration or is questioned by poll, legitimacy is this permanent quest, the importance of which current events regularly remind us. The recent pension reform crisis is a case in point. Examining legitimacy is therefore relevant, in our relationship to democracy.
 

Presentation 2:

Speakers: Christine Maati, Jérôme Maati
Title: Influence of directors' age diversity and personal values on the financial performance and risk of listed companies in France
Summary :
This research questions the effects of director age diversity on the performance and risk of French listed non-financial companies. It shows that the impact on financial performance is negative, while that on stock market volatility and firm default risk is positive. Age diversity is therefore not beneficial for companies. To explain these relationships, age diversity is decomposed into the diversity of directors' personal values, estimated from the European Social Survey. The research reveals that the diversity of values relating to egalitarianism, sociability, religious beliefs, wealth, hedonism, altruism, success, risk, traditionalism and pleasure can give rise to conflict and undermine board efficiency. Profitability can be weakened, stock market volatility and the risk of default exacerbated. Alternative measures of age diversity, performance and risk corroborate our results. These remain robust when potential endogeneity problems are taken into account.

 

Presentation 3:

Speaker: Josué Gimel
Title: When "lab rats" oppose experimentation: the political sociology of a social movement of parents opposed to an experiment in social mixing at middle school in Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Summary:

In the winter of 2016, parents of pupils at Clos d'Ambert elementary school in Noisy-le-Grand, a Seine-Saint-Denis commune belonging to the new town of Marne-la-Vallée, organized to protest against the sectorization of their school at Victor Hugo middle school located in the working-class neighborhood of Pavé Neuf and designated as a priority by the city policy (QPV). This sectorization, undertaken for demographic reasons, is part of a national experiment to promote social diversity in secondary schools. It has the backing of local elected representatives, in particular the vice-president for education on the departmental council (PS), who is also the first deputy mayor of Noisy-le-Grand and a promoter of the experimental approach in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. The elected official seems convinced that he is acting in the general interest.

The elementary school, located in the Marnois pavilion neighborhood of salaried middle-class owner-occupiers, is also recruiting from the new town center built by the Socialist municipality. The neighborhood is gentrifying, and the newcomers seem to be spreading an instrumental, elitist vision of school choice. In fact, they are helping to create competition for places in the local private school, which until now had not been full.

Deploying from the school's core group of PEEP parents, the social movement leads several demonstrations and manages to enliven the local pages of the Parisien on several occasions. The watchword is refusal to be the " lab rats " of an insufficiently prepared and debated experiment. For many observers involved (parents, elected representatives, civil servants), this is a movement of owners who consider public services to be their own property, and who wish to preserve their own privacy in their local middle school, while stigmatizing the REP middle school in the low-income neighborhood next door. Refusing to debate or listen to the protesters' arguments, the departmental council and certain FCPE parents consider these parents to be "NIMBYs"

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  1. https://bbb.uphf.fr/b/maa-3ur-pzg-hmh

Programme

  1. Programme de la journée scientifique d’été de l’axe 2 « Organisations » : contrats, institutions, risques (pdf 950.5 KB)