Abstracts n°209

The « Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants d’entreprise » 1 (CJD, France) has just released a study. According to its National President – Didier Livio – this is the brainchild of an anger born from the divorce between business and society. « For twenty years, D. Livio explains, business has consumed society in the quest for profits ». In his preface, he denounces « the unbearable contradiction between our economic performance and our social fractures ». « We have driven ourselves into a corner, he adds. For enterprises will be unable to thrive for long in a society menaced by an erosion of social links and increasing inequalities in a State which is impoverished by loss of meaning, standards and collective goals ».