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The article provides information on the seminar conducted by the 2023 RIODD Congress (International Network on Organizations and Sustainable Development), scheduled for October 17-10, 2023, in Lille, France, on the topic of "Sustainability of Human Societies and their Ecosystems".

The article focuses on varying degrees a process of deindustrialization which, combining relocations, development of international subcontracting and financialization has led to a reclassification of territories. It mentions decline of the working class, appearance of industrial wastelands, rise of populism. It also mentions management sciences is also due to the fact that sub-disciplines have captured part of the deindustrialization by relating to categories.

The article reports that the SSE companies experiences a renewal of their social solidarity practices and their production models. Topics include considered that the covid-19 crisis has thus generated a major surge of solidarity, leading to a sharp increase in the number of voluntary workers and above all, a great involvement of civil society from the "solidarity brigades".

The article focuses on how states are utilizing corporate law to steer companies towards sustainable goals, but the rise of diverse legal forms, such as "profit-with-purpose corporations," could lead to confusion without adequate theoretical understanding. It offers a conceptual framework to categorize different types of profit-with-purpose corporations based on their objectives, suggesting governance strategies tailored to each purpose and emphasizing integrity in implementing these forms.

The article examines the strategy of the French industrial group Saint-Gobain in the face of deindustrialization in Europe between 1978 and 1991. It analyzes the challenges faced by European industrial companies during that period, including the two oil shocks and the slowdown in key sectors such as automobiles, construction, and public works. It explores the consequences of deindustrialization on the company's operations, the changes in strategy and human resource management.

The article discusses call for papers for the periodical in debate concerning the relationship between business and society, and the life of the company in interaction with the socioeconomic, legal and cultural system.

The article revisits Frank Knight's essay, particularly his intuitions about what is now known as behavioral economics. It mentions Knight's approach is based on psychology, and tries to better understand people's attitude towards uncertainty. It also mentions classic distinction between risk and uncertainty is a famous one yet its real implications are often ignored.

The article focuses on the centenary of book "Risk, Uncertainty and Profit" by Frank Knight. It mentions he explicitly addresses the problem of controlling and reducing uncertainty by making it dependent on form of social organization and not on a calculation of probabilities. It also mentions theory of the firm based on transaction costs initiated by Coase, rejects this approach by dint of being a theory of choice and exchange without any real consideration of either production or uncertainty.

The article focuses on the centenary of book "Risk, Uncertainty and Profit" from Frank Knight. It mentions general sense that uncertainty is now a central concern of societies and good reason to do so here in Enterprise & Society (ENSO). It also mentions Knight's work delivers one of the first economic theories of the firm, and this theory is directly associated with a theory of the functioning of societies.

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The article focuses on governance crisis that shook Danone in 2021 and particular because the dismissal of the chief executive officer (CEO) by the board of directors was seen as a sign of weakness of the status of société à mission. It mentions effects of the governance mechanisms provided for by the société à mission and highlight original phenomena. It also mentions corporate governance in which functioning of the board of directors is transformed by the novel role of mission committee.

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The article examines that there are two reasons to celebrate Frank Knight as the centenary of his great work Risk, Uncertainty and Profit and the general feeling that uncertainty is now at the center of company concerns. Topics include considered that there is at least a good reason to celebrate it in Entreprise & Société (ENSO) because Knight's book offers one of the first economic theories of the firm and that this theory is directly associated with a theory of the functioning of companies.

The article examines that Frank Knight, in his most famous work, Risk, Uncertainty and Profit who develops an approach that recalls, in many respects, behavioral economics. Topics include considered that certain chapters thus contain very up-to-date insights into the way in which economic agents make their decisions.

The article examines that Frank Knight's reference work, Risk, Uncertainty and Profit often quoted, less often read, is "an attempt to establish more precisely the essential principles of conventional economic doctrine and to show their implications more clearly than has been done. Its object is refinement, not reconstruction". Topics include reports that the bearer of an analysis of the nature, role and function of the company that breaks with this conventional doctrine will continue.

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The article explore the relationship between financial stability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) oriented governance. Topics discussed include importance of systemic stability for sustainable finance; need to address social problems, such as poverty, social exclusion and illiteracy for implementation of CSR in emerging countries; and literature review on the interaction between stability and CSR.

The article discusses the debt financing policy of large family businesses in Arab countries, which includes the interest increased to this category of business. Statistics show that in general, families control almost 95% of companies in Asia and the Middle East, and despite the presence of certain disparities between countries, their economies are confronted the same evolutions and the same ruptures at the level Economic and Social.

The article discusses Which Financial Instruments for the Agenda 2030, Lighting of Ecological Financial Theory, which includes the industrial Great Acceleration underway for 75 years has for mirror an unprecedented destabilization of the Earth System. These mechanisms lead to unpredictable cascades of events biosphere, atmospheric, hydro-spherical and geological interconnected, thereby creating an overall risk of collapse social.

The article presents the summary, which includes Big angle, Thematic File Business and Common, Contents and Finance booklet.

The article discusses conceptual approach to the territory businesses, especially family businesses. Topics discussed include role of historical, temporal, institutional, spatial and social context in understanding behavior and entrepreneurial goals; use of conceptual territory in strategic development and influence of the company; and promotion of corporate social responsibility through conceptual approach.

The article discusses orientation entrepreneurial (OE) performance relationship in context of family businesses. Topics discussed include impact of OE, type of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and degree of hostility of the competitive environment on performance of companies; decisions in family business towards minimizing the loss of socio-emotional heritage to the detriment of the financial challenges facing the organization; and role of non-financial objectives non financial objectives.

The article focuses in particular on the role of private actors on plastic recycling, and draws on on case studies of inclusive recycling projects in Mexico, in Indonesia, Brazil and Argentina led by Danone as part of its Ecosystem fund. It mentions that private actors seeking to improve the productivity of rag pickers or the managerial efficiency of factories, is central.

The article focuses on the advantages of social entrepreneurship in eleminating the acceleration of global warming and collapses of biodiversity. It mentions about the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in educating society about ecological degradation, carbon dioxide emissions, cultures and languages disappear under the influence of increasing standardization, and privatization.

The article presents a report on the involvement of employees in the shareholding of their companies. It states that now more companies are offering their employees the opportunity to take part in the firms' decision making and to become its shareholder. It also states that engagement in corporate gorvernance motivates employees to perform better.

The article presents a report on the importance of employee participation in the firm's decision making. It states that lesser number of firms in France give employees the opportunity to participate in management as compared to German companies. It also mentions about the huge difference between the culture and societies of the two nations.

The article presents a report on the employee participation in the stock purchasing plans of a company. It mentions about the works that employees need to perform if they are given the chance to get involved in the share purchase plans of a firm. It states that employees may be asked to build up a portfolio of movable properties during their participation.

The article presents a report on the economic concepts and the governance of a company. It states that the corporate governance is a system by which a firm is directed and controlled. It mentions about the evolution of the corporate governance without recalling financial capitalism. It also mentions about the different objectives and theories that a firm may have for its governance.

The article discusses Résumés and abstracts, which includes the prospects for development economic organizations social and solidarity (ESS) by the common. The commons movement developed new forms of action collective and of identify common criteria social relating to four dimensions of practice towards governance, work, economic model, territory.

The article presents the author's views on the influence of social innovation on Austrian economy. Topics discussed include how social innovation affects technological innovation, economic and financial crisis faced by international organizations, public policies enforced in Austria and business literature.

The article presents a study on social innovation with reference to social practices of business enterprises. Topics discussed include how it improves industrial profitability, goals of social development, its self-management, social needs of business enterprises and introduction of technological innovation in the firms.

The article presents a study on social and financial objectives of business enterprises of France. Topics discussed include studies on organizational hybrids, their economic and financial goals, business activities of nonprofit organizations, their commercial objectives and social value of commercial activities.

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