LA DOUBLE HÉLICE DE LA GOUVERNANCE DES ‘COMMUNS’
Keywords:
Double helical structure – Governing – System of collective action – ‘Designing the evolving artifact’ – Common good.Abstract
The combination of the title and subtitle of the major work of E Ostrom’s major work allows two
alternative interpretations distinguishing ‘market economies’ and ‘organizational economies’. The
French translation of the title of the book (Governance of the commons: For a new resource
approach) only focuses on the first dimension. It does not reflect allow to be attentive to the
presence of three of the five key words of the original title entitled: ‘Collective Action’, ‘Evolution’
and ‘Institution’. By offering an alternative equally admissible translation, i.e. “The evolution of the
governance of collective action systems such as ‘the commons’,” cannot we quite significantly enrich
our conceptions of governance, by processes rather than by products?
