The return of domination ?

• David COURPASSON
  Professor, École Supérieure de Commerce, Lyon
  
• Michel VILLETTE
  Senior lecturer, École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Agricoles et Alimentaires
  
• Alain LEBAUBE
  Editorialist, Le Monde newspaper
  
• Jean-Claude THOENIG
  Research director, CNRS ; Groupe d'Analyse des Politiques Publiques, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cachan
  

Summary

The current rules and regulations of making job appointments and generating work has given rise to a pattern of behaviour within companies which comes close to an atmosphere of domination. However, is it not a matter of the individual submitting voluntarily, given a largely consensual situation, where this domination is accepted by the people involved ? In any case, the end of the Utopia of the 1980s, which regarded the company to be a model for society, marks the return of this concept which was thought to be out-of-date.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Élisabeth BOURGUINAT.

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The entire article appears in French in the Journal de l'École de Paris du management N° 8.