This study aims to understand how a banking cooperative developing in a globalized industry achieves territorial strategic positioning in the context of growth through an extraterritorial merger. Theoretically, this study challenges the seemingly accepted assertion that a cooperative drifts into a sectoral competitive logic in its growth, which is contrary to its original territorial logic of action. This article concludes that studies have failed to address the question of how these logics can be reconciled. Therefore, this article adopts a strategic management theoretical perspective to investigate the organizational arrangements of a large cooperative banking group embarking on a major extraterritorial merger strategy. We show that far from being an obstacle to growth, territorial logic plays a central role in defining the new group strategy and its restructuring for economic sustainability. We also show that many organizational processes in a growth context involve co-construction and co-management with local partners. These modes of operation form a bulwark against the isomorphism potential drift that threatens any large financial cooperative in a growth context. More generally, our research calls for a reterritorializing of the field study on the strategic management of cooperatives.

Using a historical and institutional approach, this analysis examines the key dimensions of the marketization of home care in France from 1950 to 2020, focusing on its effects on funding, services, labor, regulations, and governance systems. Our case study illustrates the trajectory of home care services in France using an analytical framework that enhances our understanding of the marketization process. This long-term investigation sheds light on the dynamics of marketization in activities that possess several non-market characteristics. Although home care is considered a social service and receives public funding, it also has a commodified aspect that falls within the economic realm. Drawing on a critical review of political economy, moral philosophy, and social policy literature, we propose an original analytical framework that transcends the traditional divide between state and market. The case study of French home care services reveals that marketization revolves around four key dimensions: i) commodification of care labor and activities, ii) monetization (the transition from familial care to paid labor), iii) codification (task standardization and contractualization), and iv) privatization through the rise of for-profit providers. Marketization is accompanied by two interconnected movements. The first movement involves a transition from domestic work within the family to the market sphere (commodification of labor). The second movement reflects the shift from quasi-public services, which lacked market logic, to services that, even though they remain social services, operate in a competitive environment exhibiting all the characteristics of a market, despite partial public funding. Public funding is the major origin of care commodification.

The charter applies to all researchers contributing to or supporting the research activities of the Flex-Mediation project. Participants undertake to respect the principles set out in the charter. The charter sets out a framework to facilitate collective research, the sharing of resources (documents, raw data, etc.) and the opening up of data.

Since the mid-2010s, participatory renewable energy (RE) projects in France have included so-called co-development projects, involving a private developer, citizens' associations and a local authority. As yet little studied, this article proposes an analysis based on the following question: in what way does the cooperative process supporting co-development ENR projects constitute a form of commoning of energy production that contributes to the "citizen energy transition"? Based on a study of three cases, and through the prism of commoning, we analyze the social construction of cooperation between heterogeneous players aimed at the collective management of ENR production. We show that, in these projects, the creation of energy commons is based on five variables: a heterogeneous cooperating community, the articulation of plural logics (market, public and reciprocal), the territorialization of resources, democratic governance and conflictuality, provided it is the vector of compromise.

Understanding mediations between variable production and evolving uses of electricity. Presentation of the human and social sciences research project 2023-2028 in 5 axes: - New organizational arrangements between production and consumption, and the ways in which resources are used - Influence of the ways in which energy communities emerge and operate on the fair sharing of costs and benefits - Influence of intermediaries on the perception of the variability of renewable energies and consumer practices - Design of public policies and regulation relating to flexibility: new forms of services (suppliers, aggregators, communities) and integration into market mechanisms, international comparison - Legal translation of flexibility and questions of energy justice: European comparison, multi-scale contractual analysis, innovations in specific rights for the players concerned.