Sessions thématiques ouvertes > Responsabilité territoriale des entreprises, quels enseignements au niveau international ?

Contact pour soumission de communication

Maryline Filippi : maryline.filippi@agroparistech.fr

Timothée Duverger : t.duverger@sciencespobordeaux.fr

Cadrage et objectif de la session

In a society subject to increasing demands to take account of environmental and social dimensions, the territory is asserting itself more than ever as the place for transformations and responses to complex challenges. At a time when companies are struggling to establish their social responsibility, this session is dedicated to the notion of Corporate Territorial Responsibility (CTR), which represents a radical change of approach in a sustainability perspective. The territory becomes a means of recomposing the "making of society" by balancing divergent priorities between the care of human and natural resources for living territorial ecosystems in the Anthropocene era.

This session will discuss this collective and responsible undertaking for the common good, renewing analytical frameworks for territorial development processes. How can we stimulate cooperative dynamics within communities? What are the differences with CSR? What role can the Social Solidarity Economy play in the deployment of concrete solutions? How, and under what conditions, does CTR enable the transition from individual design to collective construction, based as closely as possible on the needs of local players? How can we involve cooperatives, social enterprises or more traditional SMEs, or even large corporations with a local heritage, in these more virtuous territorial development processes? What new, innovative and creative forms of collective action? It's about innovating in social and territorial practices specific to places and arrangements between players. CRT enables the sometimes-contradictory interests of local players to converge, and is part of a complex process of territorial anchoring, based on partnership networks and multi-level, long-term governance. How can we rethink the co-construction of actions at the limits of public authority competencies, requiring innovation and the creation of new public, private and/or mixed partnerships?

This special session will confront various international experiments, reporting both best and worst practices, in order to rethink our analytical frameworks, identify new parameters and tools for measuring the value created, and open up new research perspectives concerning also who the value creation process serves and who is included in the deliberations within a particular territory (entrepreneurs, civil society, political class, academics, etc.). Contributions are welcome in English or French.

References

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Filippi M (dir.) (2022) La Responsabilité Territoriale des Entreprises. Edition Le Bord de l’Eau. OCDE (2019) Business Models for the Circular Economy: Opportunities and Challenges for Policy. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/business-models-for-the-circular-economy_g2g9dd62-en

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