Introduction Although the road to get there may have been long and bumpy, the European Union (EU) finally adopted the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D or CSDDD) in a trilogue1 on 24 May 2024. A cornerstone of the European Green Deal2, this directive is expected to be transposed into French law by 26 July […]
Foreword International tensions, the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on budgets and Donald Trump’s return to the White House have disrupted Europe’s standard- and regulation-based strategy for transitioning to an economy with a social and environmental conscience. The European Union (EU) has spent several years working to put in place two directives: the Corporate Sustainability […]
1. Background “This crisis (COVID-19), undoubtedly more than any other, requires cooperation, requires the invention of new international solutions.” These words of the French President Emmanuel Macron, in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22nd, 2020, illustrates the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for new solutions to solve […]
Raluca Sandu, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Finance and Accounting at SKEMA Business School, is the guest of SKEMA Publika to discuss the risks involved in governments’ move towards New Public Management. Chapters: The interview is available below: To go further:
Claude Revel, Director of development at the SKEMA Publika think tank, gives us her analysis of the usefulness of economic intelligence for understanding the economy of sport. The interview is available below :
Sean Scull, Project Manager at SKEMA Publika, has just published a book on populism entitled Le Populisme : Symptôme d’une crise de la démocratie - Comment le néolibéralisme a triomphé en France et en Suède [Populism: the symptom of a crisis in democracy - How neoliberalism has triumphed in France and Sweden], through Editions l’Harmattan. […]
Maroun Eddé, Essayist and specialist in political philosophy is SKEMA Publika’s guest to discuss the influence of consulting firms on the State. These videos follow on from his keynote at SKEMA Publika’s conference of March 28th, 2024, entitled “What influence do consulting firms have on public policy?”. What influence do consulting firms have on the […]
When a company or an organisation designs or uses artificial intelligence (AI), it has a duty to question how it can develop this technology in a responsible manner, without raising any ethical issues. It falls to both AI designers and the leaders who will use this technology for their company’s activities to establish conscientious practices that follow a series of fundamental guidelines. So, what are those guidelines? An opinion by Diane de Saint-Affrique.
Opinion piece by Simon Chadwick States have long played a role in sport, sometimes in promoting participation and at other times in helping governments to achieve political ends. This role is often perceived as being positive, for instance in the way it is intended to address public health challenges. Though states’ engagement with sport can be for malign reasons, indeed there are many examples of sport being deployed for propaganda purposes. Such is the potential for states to exert their influence over and through sport that, for example, football’s governing body FIFA explicitly prohibits states from intervening in national associations.
Opinion by Jean-Baptiste Guégan | The Paris 2024 Games are about more than mere sporting excitement. They carry with them major economic stakes for more actors than the host city alone. An ideal opportunity to recall the growing importance of the geoeconomy of sport.
