Emmanuel Raufflet

HEC Montréal | HEC Montreal · Department of Management

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Ce cas présente l’expérience d’Insertech, une organisation d’économie sociale, dont la mission est d’aider les personnes éprouvant des difficultés à intégrer ou à réintégrer le marché du travail, tout en prolongeant la durée de vie du matériel informatique. Cet organisme d’insertion socioprofessionnelle a choisi d’allier une vocation environnementa...

L’économie circulaire vise à appuyer le développement des nations, tout enréduisant leur empreinte environnementale, ce qui contribue au bien-être desindividus et des collectivités. Son but est d’optimiser la valeur économique desproduits et services en les maintenant dans le système économique le plus long-temps possible, réduisant par le fait mêm...

The dominant conception of the circular economy presents it as a politically neutral, technology-driven process of efficiency improvements and green market expansion. However, it does not consider the social embedding of circularity and thereby risks undermining the transition out of de facto linear economies. This paper begins with a critique of t...

How can Indigenous peoples and practitioners engage Impact Assessment as a collaborative learning process that enables communities to affect and influence the design of development projects and their management systems? How to create conversations between Indigenous peoples in order to craft a message/voice in relation to developers? This article s...

The dominant conception of the circular economy presents it as a politically neutral, technology-driven process of efficiency improvements and green market expansion. However, it does not consider the social embedding of circularity and thereby risks undermining the transition out of de facto linear economies. This paper begins with a critique of t...

Both social economy and circular economy have received much attention recently. Yet, the relationship between the two remains under explored. While social economy primarily refers to economic democratization, collective enterprise, and the quest for common good, circular economy tends to focus on environmental sustainability. This article examines...

Écoscéno a été fondée en 2019 à Montréal afin d’offrir des solutions concrètes à la problématique de déchets dans le secteur des arts. Cette entreprise d’économie sociale sans but lucratif a pour mission de réduire l’empreinte écologique du domaine culturel en mettant en action des stratégies d’économie circulaire.

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Quebec is a pioneer in both social economy and social innovation (Wright 2010, Bouchard 2013) as well as in circular economy (Sauvé et al. 2016, Teigiero et al., 2018). In this chapter, we explore how social economy and circular economy policies accompany the transition towards a just and sustainable circular economy, identify areas of convergence,...

How can one analyze the public actions of organizations and actors from different sectors? Studies using a policy analysis perspective have shed light on the role of the state in making and implementing urban agriculture (UA) policy. However, this perspective has limitations when it comes to explaining the interactions between the state, civil soci...

This is a call for papers for the Research Topic at Frontiers in Sustainability - section Responsible Consumption. The Research Topic aims at investigating how mobilizing and empowering consumers may spur the production of circular products and the circularization of products already in the market. The special topic also seeks to better understand...

Sia la democrazia economica che l’economia circolare hanno ricevuto molta attenzione ultimamente (Ferreras et al. 2020; Raworth 2017). Ciononostante, il rapporto tra le due rimane poco studiato nella teoria come nella pratica. Semplificando, possiamo dire che mentre la democrazia economica riguarda soprattutto la giustizia e la partecipazione, l’ec...

Both economic democracy and circular economy have received much attention recently. However, the relation between the two remains understudied, both conceptually and empirically. While economic democracy primarily refers to justice and participation, circular economy tends to be explored with respect to environmental sustainability. This chapter ex...

Sherbrooke, Canada, October 2018—A team of managers of BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products) attended a presentation on circular economy. The following day, they decided to explore the potential of the circular economy model for their product lines (see Appendix 1: Definition of circular economy). BRP defined itself as a company that creates innov...

The 70th issue of the Journal Cuadernos de Administración in its 45th anniversary is a special issue on the Circular Economy. The guest editors called for and reviewed papers and made an initial manuscript selection, defined arbitrators and assigned them papers, reviewed the arbitrators’ first-round opinion, forwarding their comments to the referee...

This paper is based on a case study of the European space industry as it is organized in the postcolonial setting of French Guiana. It brings the state back into political corporate social responsibility (CSR) by showing how government shapes interactions between business and local communities, more specifically around CSR issues. The paper opens n...

This article presents an analysis of the municipal urban agriculture (UA) policy implementation at the local level, based on a comparison of three regions of the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil—namely extreme south, east, and north. Our findings show that although UA policymaking of the past has led to successful improvements at the municipal lev...

Circular economy is concerned with rethinking economic models to reduce both the pressure on resources and the generation of waste. The implementation of such models often implies new forms of coordination across different processes, actors, and scales. The literature on value chains has struggled to conceptualize such transitions. Recent contribut...

Ce n’est un secret pour personne : bien que les ressources naturelles s’amenuisent, nous les consommons toujours à un rythme effréné. Nombreux sont ceux qui s’inquiètent des conséquences à venir, tant pour notre planète que pour nos sociétés, et qui réfléchissent à des pistes de solution. Parmi celles-ci, l’économie circulaire.

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The term ‘social innovation’ has come to gather all manner of (positive) meanings from policymakers and politicians across the political spectrum. But while actors may unproblematically unite around a broadly positive perspective of social innovation as bringing about (positive) social change, we rarely see evidence of a shared vision for the kind...

Researchers have addressed the implications of power imbalance for nonprofits engaging in collaborations with businesses. Yet as nonprofit–business collaboration intensifies, nonprofit managers’ perceptions of power asymmetry in these relationships remain scantly studied. We argue that investigating these perceptions can sharpen the understanding o...

: This article presents BiomiMETRIC, a quantitative performance tool for biomimetic design. This tool is developed as a complement to the standard ISO 18458 Biomimetics—terminology, concepts, and methodology to quantitatively evaluate the biomimetics performance of a design, a project, or a product. BiomiMETRIC is aimed to assist designers, archite...

El cuestionamiento del sistema capitalista de mercado tiene una larga trayectoria, pero en las últimas décadas se han incrementado las propuestas que pretenden ofrecer alternativas a un sistema de mercado que favorece a los más aventajados e incrementa la desigualdad (Piketty 2014; Stiglitz 2013). Estas propuestas han surgido desde la experiencia d...

Over the last decade, businesses, policymakers, and researchers alike have advocated the need for (and potential of) value creation through inter-organizational collaboration. Researchers have widely argued that organizations that are engaged in collaborative processes create value. Because researchers have tended to focus on the identification of...

This third collection of outstanding contributions from the Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) continues to challenge business practice in ways not tackled by other more typical business case studies. There is a critical need for business educators to expose students and managers to the multifaceted pheno...

Over the last decade, sustainability has aroused interest in the area of management education. It has been integrated into the curricula of some management courses, guided by the dominant paradigm embedded in instrumental rationality and the strategic approach. Thus the question that has guided this chapter is: ‘What could be a new approach to weav...

Ensure that innovation contributes to the development of engineering solutions in harmony with the limits of the environment ! This is what is offered by the biomimicry design approach. After the general presentation of the concept of biomimicry, the emphasis will be placed on methods and practical biomimetic tools to facilitate ideas generation an...

Stakeholder thinking has contributed considerably to the organizational literature by demonstrating the significance of the environment in managing organizations. Stakeholders affect and are affected by organizations’ daily operations and decisions. They have varied and often conflicting interests, making it necessary for managers and organizations...

Faire en sorte que l’innovation en ingénierie contribue au développement de solutions en harmonie avec la capacité de support de l’environnement, voilà ce que propose le biomimétisme. Après la présentation générale du concept de biomimétisme, l’emphase sera portée sur les méthodes et outils de mise en œuvre concrète de la démarche biomimétique en i...

There is a growing consensus among scholars and practitioners that corporate community relations matter, especially from a sustainability standpoint. While current research has focused on strategies of corporate community engagement per se, little is known about the interactions between organizational arrangements and community engagement strategie...

A necessary review of teaching and research in finance and Emmanuel Raufflet, page 57 Our contention is that the 2007 crisis goes beyond a financial crisis and is actually a crisis of the debt model which has evolved into a multifaceted crisis. This crisis also reveals a crisis in education and research in management, and finance in particular. Bas...

This article focuses on the reconstruction of relationships between Hydro-Québec and the Cree Nation during the period 1994-2015. The indefinite suspension of Great Whale - a major hydroelectric project - decided by Premier Jacques Parizeau in 1994 marks both a "victory" for the Cree opposed to this project and the severity of the conflict between...

How could a de facto moratorium on shale gas exploration emerge in Québec despite the broad adoption of fracking in North American jurisdictions, support from the provincial government and a favorable power position initially enjoyed by the oil and gas industry? This paper analyzes this turn of events by studying how stakeholders from government, c...

Sustainability has received increasing attention in management education over the past ten years. This article reviews a decade’s worth of research in a systematic analysis of 63 articles published in international higher education and management education journals between 2003 and 2013. The purpose of this article is to map and review the publicat...

In recent years, issues related to companies' relations with their local stakeholders, namely the local community, have become increasingly salient. There is a growing consensus among practitioners, business associations, international financial institutions and consultants that these relations matter to a company's long-term success. However, litt...

This qualitative study maps international development organizations based on their respective levels of experience in cross-sector collaboration. The trend of cross-sector collaboration is taking increasing importance for nonprofit organizations. Donors consider collaboration between nonprofits and businesses as a key to achieving development goals...

Cet article examine un enjeu particulièrement important pour toutes les entreprises qui ont des ancrages locaux marqués : l’acceptabilité sociale. Cette notion s’est imposé au cours des dernières années dans différents contextes à la suite de controverses entre entreprises et communautés locales. Cependant, sa diffusion parmi les praticiens et les...

Subject area – Urban poverty, mobilization, leadership, communication Study level/applicability – This case is intended for graduate/postgraduate and MBA courses that discuss management issues in relation to corporate social responsibility, business and society or global issues. This case was successfully tested in an MBA course on sustainable dev...

This article draws on the political CSR literature to investigate how an organization responds to political and economic tensions through its corporate community involvement (CCI). It is based on the longitudinal case study of a hybrid organization in the space industry, which has engaged in relations with the local community over the last 50 years...

Subject area – International business, Strategic management Study level/applicability – BA and MA; courses: International business, Management courses with special focus on emerging and developing countries, Intercultural management, Strategic management. Case overview – Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, June 2013 – Representatives of the Lond...

In recent years, questions related to the social license to operate, particularly in the extractive sector, have become important issues for businesses, as projects direct investors and operators, as well as for governments, as promoters of local and regional economic developement projects. Our key argument is that resilient local development think...

Les questions liées aux relations entre entreprises et communautés locales se sont imposées au cours des dernières années comme un enjeu de gestion important pour nombre d’entreprises, en particulier dans le secteur industriel et des ressources naturelles. Comment construire, cultiver et reconstruire des relations durables et de réciprocité entre e...

Community-based entrepreneurship projects have been advocated as a potential approach to alleviate extreme poverty as they provide opportunities for income generation and capacity enhancement. This practical note provides an overview of the PRODECO project undertaken jointly by the Paraguayan government and the World Bank (1999–2008) in three south...

Esta revisão de pesquisas sobre desenvolvimento sustentável e empreendedorismo (EDS) busca identificar os conceitos-chaves e examinar o conhecimento atual neste campo, tais como as razões para a emergência do EDS, o perfil dos novos empreendedores (ED – empreendedores em desenvolvimento sustentável), as especificidades dos processos de gestão e os...

The 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent economic crisis have highlighted two major obstacles, namely the entrenched and repeated failures of financial institutions and instruments as well as the moral silence of finance managers regarding their professional responsibility. This article aims to take stock of developments in the teaching of ethi...

Issues related to company-community relations and the social license to operate have emerged as strategic business issues. This paper aims to contribute to the growing body of research on long-term company-community relations. An analysis of the relationship between Alcan (Aluminum of Canada, Montréal, Canada part of Rio Tinto since 2007) with the...

Established in 1971, DePaul Industries was a social venture operated as one organization (and for short called DePaul Industries) but legally registered as two 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organizations (DePaul Industries and DePaul Services). DePaul’s mission was to generate employment opportunities for people with disabilities. DePaul operated in th...

Over the last decade, numerous modules, courses, and programs in Management Education have integrated sustainability into their curricula. However, this “integration” has translated into very diverse forms and contents. This article aims to clarify these ambiguities. It maps four forms of sustainability integration in Management Education. These fo...

Formally organized collaborations in pluralistic settings are currently rising and wide-spread phenomena. Over the past three decades, authors from different research traditions in management have proposed various concepts of organizations in pluralistic settings. However, these concepts remain largely unrelated, and they are currently stuck in a “...

This case highlights various phases in four decades of relations between Hydro-Québec, a provincial utility, and the Crees, a First Nation living mainly in northern Quebec, progressing from conflicts and impasse to accountability. It highlights two processes: 1) the stages in the relational process between a company and a community from the perspec...

Subject area The case is suitable for undergraduate and MBA courses: strategic management, social entrepreneurship. Study level/applicability Masters, Bachelors. Case overview In Fortaleza, January 2008, an urban microfinance manager and the planning committee of Crediamigo, Brazil's largest microfinance institution need to devise an entry strate...

This paper seeks to understand the success of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in creating a platform for the development of ISO 26000, a standard of organizational social responsibility (OSR). The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, neo-institutional theory combined with political theory will help us to understand...

Si les liens entre environnement et organisations syndicales ont été trop peu étudiés, les données disponibles montrent une relation difficile ou du moins particulière entre ces deux thèmes. Prenant appui sur une étude empirique que nous avons mise en oeuvre, le présent article contribue à éclairer la compréhension de la relation entre ces thèmes e...

span style="font-family: MetaPro-Book; font-size: xx-small;"> En la primera decada del siglo XXI, los conceptos de responsabilidad corporativa y la nocion de desarrollo sostenible han sido ampliamente difundidos tanto en los circulos de investigadores como en los de profesionales de la gestion y de la administracion. El objetivo de este trabajo es...

There has been a multiplication of sustainability related modules, courses, programs over the last decade in Higher Education in general, as well as more specifically in Business Education. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critique/evaluation of these efforts and to map avenues for the design of modules, courses and programs through a refl...

What Are Companies Doing in the Area of Community Relations ? This article presents the community relations practices employed by 21 companies based in Quebec. Two main trends are identified in terms of the relations existing between organizations and communities. The first trend concerns the imperative for companies to ensure their operations are...

Kingsey Falls, 120 km west of Montreal, 1959 – Antonio Lemaire is unemployed. He uses a blender to recycle paper and fiber gathered around his village. Five years later, in 1964, his two older sons get a grant from their local credit union (caisse populaire) to refurbish and restart a local abandoned paper mill. They quickly transform the equipment...

Investigating the experience of the Community Individual Development Association University in South Africa, this article examines a new and potentially replicable model for post-secondary education in developing countries. In this article, we particularly focus on understanding the new model from two perspectives: (1) as an educational model and (...

Over the last decade, the concepts of corporate responsibility and the notion of sustainable development have been widely disseminated both in the circles of both researchers and professionals in management. The purpose of this paper is to propose some elements of clarification with regard to these two concepts and in relation to the current contex...

This research article analyzes the founding and expansion of the Instituto Ethos, a nonprofit organization that has helped to create and develop the necessary infrastructure to promote Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Brazil. From 1998 to 2008, the Instituto Ethos has brought together more than 1200 small, medium and large companies in Braz...

Résumé Au cours de la dernière décennie, nombre d’entreprises ont répondu aux défis liés au développement durable en adoptant des systèmes de gestion environnementale intégrés, dont les normes ISO 14000. Cet article se concentre sur l’évolution des motivations d’adoption de quatre entreprises canadiennes vis-à-vis de la norme ISO 14001 dans le sect...

Reconciling Social Responsibility and Profitability: The Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Grameen Bank How does one reconcile the pursuit of business activities and responsibility vis-à-vis society? This article offers valuable lessons to anyone who asks themselves this question by describing the specific case of the Grameen Bank, founded by Muhammad Yunu...