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ABSTRACT
This article offers some answers for organizations that want to integrate sustainability issues into their strategy and management of innovation. It gives definitions, a typology of integration situations, and tools, methods and methodologies adapted to each situation. In conclusion, it proposes models of management that are sources of organizational innovation, and support the development of responsible management of organizations.
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Elise MARCANDELLA: Senior Lecturer, Centre européen de recherche en économie financière et gestion des entreprises (CEREFIGE), Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
INTRODUCTION
Sustainable development is a source of both technological and organizational innovation. This article suggests ways in which companies that are or wish to become involved in a socially responsible approach can apply this approach to their strategy and innovation process.
After clarifying the concepts of sustainable development, social responsibility and innovation management, we present four situations in which innovation and sustainable development can be linked: the "product" approach, the "life-cycle thinking" approach, the "sustainable performance management" approach and, finally, the "responsible management" approach. For each of these situations, we propose methods and tools to facilitate the integration of sustainable development issues into the innovation process. To make these different scenarios explicit, we will illustrate our remarks with examples of companies or organizations that have already embarked on these new forms of innovation (eco-design, industrial ecology, functional economy, collaborative economy...).
Finally, we'll be proposing levers for progress to support companies wishing to move towards responsible innovation management. These levers, which are a source of organizational innovation, are four in number: training in sustainable development tools, opening up the company to its stakeholders, shared resource management, and a dynamic, integrated assessment of the impact of innovative projects.
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KEYWORDS
sustainable development | Sustainable management | management | Company | innovation | Corporate Social Responsibility
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Bibliography
Websites
CIRAIG – LCA and life cycle thinking http://www.ciraig.org/fr/acv.php (page consulted on August 20, 2014)
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health https://solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/ (page consulted on August 26, 2014)...
Standards and norms
- Lignes directrices relatives à la responsabilité sociétale (indice de classement : X 30-026) - NF ISO 26000 - 11-10
- Social responsibility – Governance and corporate social responsibility – ISO 26000 - FD X30-031 - 08-13
- Innovation management – Guide to implementing an innovation management approach - FD X50-271 - 12-13
- Innovation management – Guide to implementing an open innovation approach -...
Regulations
Decree no. 2012-557 of April 24, 2012 on corporate social and environmental transparency obligations (JORF no. 0099 of April 26, 2012, p. 7439, text no. 18)
Law no. 2014-856 of July 31, 2014 on the social and solidarity economy (JORF no. 0176 of 1 er August 2014, p. 12666, text no. 2)
Constitutional Act no. 2005-205 of 1...
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