Paris Research in Norms Management and Law (Primal) is a group of interdisciplinary researchers (from Law, Management and Philosophy).
The creation of Primal was inspired by the observation that management has a normative influence beyond the company and influences the functioning of society. To better understand the changes in today’s society it is necessary to consider the consequences of extending the scope of managerial norms.
This problem is addressed through two main research themes:
> The interaction between legal norms, standards, policies and managerial standards
> The effects of this interaction for democratic processes.
These research themes are developed four areas where projects are carried out specific research. The group is facilitated by this Coordinating Committee and is supported by an international Research Committee.
The group meets primal twenty researchers. It is run by a multidisciplinary coordination committee: Pierre Brunet, Professor of Public Law; Sophie Robin-Olivier, Professor of Private Law; Frédéric Guiomard, Assistant Professor in Private Law; Nelarine Cornelius, Professor of Management (University of Bradford, UK), Frederic Gautier, Professor of Management, and Eric Pezet, Professor of Management; Malik Bozzo-Rey, Assistant Professor in Philosophy.
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> Interdisciplinarity, Law, Philosophy and Management
Without denying epistemological and methodological boundaries, primal will strive to explore and redefine the issues and the relationships between Law, Philosophy and Management. Its work will be marked by a central concern: to articulate theory and practice and to reveal new issues. Multi-disciplinary inputs and their tensions will lead to the development of new objects of study and new methodological approaches and epistemological questions.
> Legal norms and managerial norms: Coexistence and redefinitions
The normative influence of management is not limited to the company and extends more and more to social life. The influence of managerial norms is observable in many different fields. For example, work on Sundays long unthinkable is now accepted.
In the public sector, the principles of organization are replaced by others derived from private management helping to challenge the legal structures and the concepts with which these structures were understood. At a European level, ‘soft’ law gives a legal framework to standards influenced by management practices. European accounting law is changing and is influenced by the Anglo-Saxon tradition through large companies and consulting firms.
From the public institutional sphere it has become increasingly difficult to question the political and economic consequences of the actions of the business. The concepts of governance, government, citizenship, sovereignty, responsibility for future generations or deliberation are now in play as it will be to understand the character of managerial government. The study of the world of business and management redefines some theoretical boundaries in particular because issues related to globalization cannot escape political philosophical scrutiny.
The law, as a collection of norms, aims to codify and regulate a number of behaviors, or to impose a number of mandates. The reference to management in areas hitherto structured strongly by law (public management) raises the question of the coexistence of legal norms and managerial standards. This question is particularly important as management creates new situations through renewing its organizational techniques, for example. Therefore, what are the legal limits to managerial standards or, put another way, is what the law provides a way to limit the influence of managerial discourse? Here we may think of the confrontation between different sets of standards themselves based on antithetical principles.
> Research Questions
Primal intends to focus on the interaction between legal norms, political norms and managerial standards and the effects of this interaction on democracy.
> The interaction between legal norms, standards, political norms and managerial norms
What is the process of creating managerial, legal and political norms and what are their strength? Indeed, if management is a discourse, how is this discourse able to form a set of norms and processes through which social policies and the law are able to incorporate these standards? In other words, who are the actors, prescribers, the drafters of these standards? What kind of managerial discourse is constructed on the basis of valid legal norms whose legal existence itself has been the result of this managerial discourse?
> The effects on the democratic processes of the interaction between legal norms, political norms and managerial norms
What effects do the application and interaction of these standards have on democratic processes and the fundamental values of democracy? How do the structures of law enforcement, which are the largest producers of standards, adopt or resist managerial discourse and, if necessary, resolve any contradictions between the managerial standards not yet included in law.
> Specific research projects
The specific research projects are designed to develop and deepen these issues from field studies conducted by multidisciplinary teams. Specific projects are interacting from the questions they address and the new questions they generate. These projects are grouped into
four areas.
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