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Sustainable development: a need for social and organizational innovation or why TMEC is essential? Corinne Gendron Chaire de responsabilité sociale et de développement durable-UQAM PLENARY SESSION How to improve innovation: the technicomanagerial entrepreneurial culture (TMEC), NCE, 5-7 december 2011 Sustainable development and environnemental crisis as new parameters for business activities - New costs - Business opportunities - New expectations Disconnection between economic and social development We experience today a new economic model based on the rejection of the Smith hypothesis as legitimacy principle. – Business has responsibilities in addition to its economic mission – Business can (must) embrace a general interest mission – Business sphere is not independent from social and environmental materiality and dynamic Business and society in a new social dialogue dynamic Social responsibility mechanisms as stakeholder dialogue – New forum for dialogue and debate – Forum which articulate themselves with a remodeled regulatory process (governance) – Social and environmental performance reports addressed to stakeholders The call for social responsibility is a symptom of several profound transformations CSR seams a symptom of : – The breaking of the compromise underlying the capitalist business – Resulting from the growing gap between businesses as production structure and the transforming development model towards sustainable development – Weakening of business legitimacy as private social institution Innovation for organization/business in post-ecologist societies Institutional transformations already take place • Discussion about governance structure of the firm and formal participation of stakeholders • Participation of social movements to corporate evaluation and market political structuration Innovation for organization/business in postecologist societies • New arena of social dialogue with a new generation of procedural legislation • Use of economic dynamic and institutions by social movements Innovation for organization/business in post-ecologist societies • Emergence of new actors (NMSÉ and social rating agency) • a posteriori regulation (after a social compromise has been reached) • Environmental accounting Innovation for organization/business in postecologist societies To conclude – – – – The environment as a new parameter Social dialogue intrinsic to business activities The need to repond to new expectations Until these expectations changes into rules and economic parameters.