La réhabilitation de la dimension constructive du conflit comme fondement d'un programme de recherche politique pour une gouvernance partagée de l'entreprise

Research into corporate governance could benefit from a clearer recognition of the constructive role of conflict in democratic regimes. With a critical perspective, the current study seeks to demonstrate the political implications of the idea of shared governance in enterprises, which often gets reduced to a technical question in studies that adopt contractual or disciplinary views of corporate governance. In contrast, shared governance of an enterprise may require an implemented culture of conflict, as central to the productive organization. Such a culture can encourage complementarity among the personal projects prioritized by various stakeholders and the social union that they form. This orientation also enables a critical view on the evolution of corporate reform, which in turn raises new questions that can inform a research agenda capable of grappling with the polemogenic atmosphere surrounding and shaping the functioning of enterprises in the 21st century.