Le renforcement des attentes réglementaires en matière de communication extra-financière va contraindre de nombreuses organisations privées à évaluer les incidences de leurs activités sur la nature et l’homme. Le processus d’évaluation d’impact est appliqué dans de nombreux champs, dont celui des politiques publiques, depuis plusieurs décennies. Les entreprises pourraient donc s’inspirer de l’expérience acquise dans ces champs précurseurs. Considérant que l’information extra-financière concerne la responsabilité sociétale de l’entreprise, nous inscrivons notre recherche dans le cadre conceptuel de la théorie des parties prenantes et proposons de répondre à la problématique suivante : quels enseignements retenir de l’expérience des acteurs historiques de l’EI pour utiliser cet outil au service du management stratégique des organisations ? Notre approche qualitative applique la méthodologie Gioia et al. (2013). D’un point de vue opérationnel, nos résultats présentent d’abord une catégorisation des attentes des parties prenantes de l’EI pour ensuite proposer des pistes de mise en œuvre efficiente de l’EI dans les entreprises. Enfin, d’un point de vue théorique, ils ré-interrogent la légitimité des attentes des parties prenantes.
Despite the growing literature on Business Models, the theorisation of the concept need still be linked to the planetary limitation. Based on collaborative research with a Deeptech technology project, we show that innovating in the era of the anthropocene requires expanding our view of what technology is.
Linking the literature about business model innovation and Living technologies, we explore an agricultural DeepTech project based on Living technologies, and we track the evolution of the business model elaboration.
We contribute to the literature on innovation by bringing the notion of Living Zombie technology as a sound resource to think about innovation. This research also refines the concept of Zombie technology by showing the impact of surrounding socio-technical arrangement and the sustainable BM literature in showing the impact of relations with the entrepreneurial ecosystem in transforming the value proposition.
In this article, I explore the political work that arises when human efforts to organize space interfere with the way other species inhabit and organize the same space. Such phenomena, already a feature of many organizations, can be expected to become more frequent and intense, due to the perturbations associated with the Anthropocene. Drawing from a posthumanist approach influenced by the works of Donna Haraway and Vinciane Despret, this article examines a controversy related to a municipal administration’s decision to cull the deer in an urban park. As they engage with this situation, the actors of the controversy negotiate and construct specific forms of organizing and managing multispecies relationships, on which they rely to determine who will be authorized to be a part of the collective, and under which conditions. From the analysis of this situation, I identify two modes of composition of multispecies relationships put forward by the actors, namely attachment and detachment. I also discuss how political institutions and practices, due to their anchoring in an anthropocentric modernist tradition, may be ill-suited to the challenges posed by multispecies controversies.
In the current Anthropocene context, organizations are facing imminent risks caused by a degraded climate and an increasing resources rarity, thus nudging them towards finding more sustainable practices to ensure their survival. Energy Management Systems (EnMS) are receiving growing attention from organizations across several sectors, especially the international standard ISO 50001 which recognizes an organization’s efforts to achieve better energy performance through certification. However, amidst the hype around implementing this standard and obtaining this worldwide recognition, literature around the unexpected challenges and negative outcomes for organizational members engaging in this process, such as the destruction of value, remained unexplored. This exploratory qualitative study aims to uncover the different forms of value co-destruction that could result from the hidden challenges related to conforming to this institutional norm, through a multi-stakeholder perspective, by conducting interviews with different organizational actors, to help establish the necessary strategies to avoid value conflicts and resolve emerging controversies. The Economies of Worth framework represents the basis of the analysis of these social interactions and allows for a deep reading of the complexity of institutional settings.
This paper explores how do actors cope with their routines in the face of rhythms unpredictability. This question takes place within the context of climate change where previous taken-for-granted ecosystem rhythms are not anymore and interrogated the routines associated. To explore this question, we mobilize the concept of routine dynamics that we cross with the Lefebvre Rhythmanalysis. The we draw on a singular but representative case: the local forest planning renewing routine in a French state forest, facing current and future but still largely unknown consequences of climate change. We show that foresters are facing situation of arrhythmia, meaning situations where rhythms are not in sync and might lead the routine to collapse. To overcome those risks, the local actors are redesigning the routine in a more agile way, not to solve the rhythms’ unpredictability, but acknowledging it and coping with arrhythmia.
