The Corporate Governance Dialogue operates as an internal think tank to reinforce ecoDa’s advocacy role by anticipating future items, and by being one step ahead.
Its objective is therefore to identify the new CG trends and to brainstorm on the role of tomorrow board members. In other words, the mission is to bring awareness of ecoDa’s member institutes on new emerging topics and to provide preliminary thoughts.
This 4th edition focused on less-hierarchical organisations. Since many years, companies have adopted different models of self-management without this system having so far convinced a very large entrepreneurial community. The interest in this type of decentralised authority and more empowered, employees seems however to gain importance with the Covid crisis, current trends in business and society as well as the demand for autonomy and personal fulfilment from the new generations. The analysis of the cases (Mercury Urval and Decathlon) and the literature on this subject shows that success requires (among others) a strengthening of leadership at the board level and throughout the whole organization.
