ABSTRACT
The emergence of enterprises operating in networks, against the backdrop of outsourcing for productive purposes, has also modified relations between stakeholders, with business-to-business relationships becoming a determining factor in achieving the industrial pact. Employees’ participation in the corporate management has developed through representation, information, and consultation mechanisms, rather than through association with decision-making bodies. The enterprise has known many historical avatars, since the abolition of corporations by the law, until the advent of the large multinational listed on the financial markets. The competition between public and private authorities has multiple consequences in the long term. In the issue of co-management, it is the participation of workers in the governance of the enterprise that is involved. In the wake of privatizations, the standard has introduced an optional representation of employees, with voting rights, within the board of directors or the supervisory board of the commercial companies.
