Raymond L. Paquin

Concordia University · Department of Management

Environmental strategy research has often used organizational interpretation as a key lens for understanding how firms engage in sensemaking around natural environmental issues and environmental performance. This work has rarely empirically tested the proposed relationships of organizational interpretation in firms' sensemaking around environmental...

With increasing pressure for climate action, commitments to setting scientifically supported emissions targets have become more common among firms. The target‐setting methods currently endorsed by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) use emission pathways that are aligned with 1.5°C and well‐below 2°C long‐term temperature goals to inform ne...

Organization and environment scholars have extensively employed strategic cognition research to explore how managers in firms engage in environmental interpretation – i.e., making sense of and responding to issues surrounding the natural environment – yet rarely addressed the effectiveness of such responses. Applying mixed effects general linear mo...

Increasingly, firms are integrating environmental sustainability into their business strategies. Yet, sustainability is a complex topic and many firms need to form environmental partnerships to access additional resources—in the form of investments, technologies, expertise, public image, and/or political influence—to develop competitive advantage....

À mesure que les dirigeants se rendent compte du potentiel concurrentiel des questions environnementales, de plus en plus d’entreprises intègrent les enjeux du développement durable à leur stratégie. Pour ce faire, elles doivent souvent trouver des alliés. Comment faire pour que ces partenariats environnementaux portent les fruits espérés ?

The Triple Layered Business Model Canvas is a tool for exploring sustainability-oriented business model innovation. It extends the original business model canvas by adding two layers: an environmental layer based on a lifecycle perspective and a social layer based on a stakeholder perspective. When taken together, the three layers of the business m...

Past work on industrial symbiosis (IS) includes a wealth of case studies across diverse settings, including industrial estates, economic regions, and IS networks. Though this work provides needed insight into factors shaping IS, much of it has been descriptive in nature. Relatively few findings have been subjected to hypothesis development and test...

Past work on industrial symbiosis includes a wealth of case studies across diverse settings including industrial estates, economic regions, and industrial symbiosis networks. While this work provides needed insight into factors shaping industrial symbiosis, much of it has been descriptive in nature. Relatively few findings have been subjected to hy...

Using longitudinal qualitative and network data capturing five years of evolution of an interorganizational network, this paper explores network orchestration – the process of assembling and developing an interorganizational network. In particular, we analyze shifts in the network orchestrator’s actions and the network’s structure and composition....

The engagement of firms in environmental collaborations has become a ubiquitous phenomenon in today’s business landscape. Yet much of the research to date is fragmented across multiple disciplines and lacks a clear framework to support future study. The authors consolidate and synthesize existing contributions into a conceptual map comprised of ant...

Increasingly, organizations view sustainable development principles as a key tool in aligning their strategic plans with specific objectives and procedures used for managing projects. However, more research is needed to identify how sustainable development contributes to aligning longer-term strategic management of clients in the building sector wi...

While much work has been done on the conditions surrounding the emergence and establishment of industrial symbiosis (IS), new attention is being paid to understanding the evolution of IS over time. We demonstrate empirically how a new, facilitated IS initiative developed and evolved over an 8‐year period. We explore its network evolution by conside...

Business and policy leaders seeking to balance economic and environmental concerns often seem to turn to the promise of future technology and infrastructure investments. Yet, meaningful approaches for addressing these concerns already exist. Industrial symbiosis, which involves firms sharing and exchanging wastes or other excess resources from one...

'There are many things we do not know about the future. But one thing we do know is that business as usual will not continue for much longer. Massive change is inevitable. Will the change come because we move quickly to restructure the economy or because we fail to act and civilization begins to unravel?' Lester Brown (2008) in Plan B 3.0: Mobilizi...