Manon Rodhain

Thesis in management sciences

On going

Self-management practices and their effects on governance and work in "Société Coopérative d'Intérêt Collectif "(SCIC) in the agri-food sector under the supervision of Pascale Château-Terisse & Charlène Arnaud

Abstract

As the existing literature focuses mainly on self-management in SCOP-type cooperatives, this research will examine how self-management and this new type of organization, the SCIC, interact, and what this interaction generates.

As many authors have pointed out, does this interaction enable us to move from theory to practice? From utopia to reality?

As the self-management utopia aims to achieve both a "democratic ideal" (democratization of the economy) and a "work utopia" (alternative practices enabling worker emancipation), the concept of self-management will enable us to explore both the (democratic) governance and work organization dimensions of the SCIC, which are at the same time its major challenges.  

This research work and its field of study centered on agricultural SCICs will contribute to our knowledge of the potential of this legal status for the rural environment and the many environmental and societal challenges facing agriculture today, and to the study of practices enabling us to concretely arm and support these organizations, which offer an alternative model to the dominant one.