► Full reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, “Ouverture et introduction” (Opening and introduction), in Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Paris Cité (Faculty of Law, Economics and Management – Centre de Droit des Affaires et de Gestion, CEDAG), Les stratégies d’entreprise dans l’organisation contractuelle des chaînes de valeur (Corporate strategies in the contractual organisation of value chains), Malakoff, 12 November 2026.
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🏗️This colloquium is part of the 2026 cycle of colloquia Compliance and Contract.
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► Presentation of this conference: This intervention opens the colloquium, for which Marie-Anne Frison-Roche shares scientific responsibility with Étienne Maclouf, and which gives as much room to management science as to Law.
“Value chains” have always existed, long before the legal system took hold of this reality, at once economic, financial and managerial; their entry into the legal order is recent, probably through the so-called “Vigilance” Act of 2017, and the expression now appears expressly in the texts of the European Union. Yet Law has always been present through the natural use of contract, an instrument of stability and organisation through which firms deploy their strategies.
The introduction sets out the three questions that structure the colloquium: how do firms deploy and give value to their strategies through the contractual organisation of value chains? How do legal systems react, to a greater or lesser extent, to these strategies, depending on whether they know them and approve of them? And how can the firm’s strategy be articulated with the Monumental Goals underpinning Compliance Law when the contract becomes the instrument through which the firm implements its Compliance Obligation?
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