The effects of the dominant conception of the enterprise (enterprises exist for profit) resonate incessantly. Yet the objective raisons d’être of this organ and its other main specificities are still too often passed over in silence. A few observations establish that this repression is neither desirable nor inevitable:
The enterprise is the only entity that exists only for the practice of economic exchanges.
Enterprises are not inevitably enslaved to a maximum to the advantage of their owners or managers. Maximum profit and maximum capital gain are not part of the standards that the market economy obliges enterprises to respect. The goal of maximization of profit is useless and dangerous; to consider it an imperative is illiberal; the alternative of maximum capital gain is even more questionable. The "social refoundation" without a refoundation of the doctrine of profit comes up against an impossibility.
Entrepreneurs have economic responsibilities that are all social.
Enterprises are not taxpayers in their own rights (3.5).
Enterprises have two other specificities (3.6, 3.7).