Durupty, Michel

Management et principe de légalité - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1980

By tradition, the legitimacy of intervention of Public Power is mainly based on the regularity of proceedings, which is demonstrates by the principle of legality of administrative action as evidenced by the various countries' public laws. The adoption by administration of new managerial techniques upsets considerably by traditional framework. Based on the existence of strict legal principles governing structures and means, our administration attempts to innovate by transposing the modern management techniques of the private sector to meet its own ends. This results in questioning the further applicability of the principle of legality of yore and requires not only a growing awareness of the dangers such an adoption is bound to entail, but also the retrieval of the value principles of modern management