Emmanuel Raufflet

Educação para a sustentabilidade nos cursos de Administração: reflexão sobre paradigmas e práticas

Na ultima decada, multiplicaram-se os modulos, cursos e programas relacionados a sustentabilidade no ensino superior em geral, assim como mais especificamente no ensino da Administracao. O proposito deste artigo e apresentar uma reflexao e uma avaliacao de tais esforcos e mapear caminhos para a construcao de modulos, cursos e programas por meio de uma reflexao sobre paradigmas da educacao e suas praticas. O objetivo e contribuir no debate sobre o papel da educacao superior e notadamente dos cursos de Administracao e Gestao, na medida em que se observa um significativo aumento do numero de instituicoes de ensino superior que apresentam efetiva motivacao para formar estudantes com conhecimento e habilidades necessarios para colocar a sustentabilidade no centro de suas futuras atividades de gestao. Apresenta-se uma reflexao sobre as principais vertentes de pensamento e os debates atuais, identificam-se as ambiguidades e contradicoes, e se apresentam as possibilidades de integracao do tema da sustentabilidade nos cursos de Administracao. Os autores trazem a tona a tematica da sustentabilidade nas empresas e seu dialogo com a academia, bem como as implicacoes da emergencia da sociedade de risco para a educacao superior e as escolas de Administracao. Tambem se abordam as correntes de pensamento da economia e ecologia propostas para a educacao, dentro de paradigmas que tratem da complexidade e insercao da sustentabilidade na educacao superior e nas escolas de Administracao. O artigo esta estruturado em quatro secoes: a primeira mapeia a sociedade de risco e o pensamento economico recente, e esboca os fundamentos/premissas da sociedade, bem como os paradigmas da educacao; a segunda apresenta um levantamento sobre promocao/difusao da sustentabilidade na educacao superior, destacando contexto, resultados e desafios; a terceira foca a sustentabilidade no ensino da Administracao e seus principais desafios; e a ultima secao propoe tres caminhos para integrar o tema da sustentabilidade no ensino da Administracao, com as competencias para o desenvolvimento sustentavel, e, finalmente, as implicacoes, os obstaculos e as possibilidades de integrar a sustentabilidade no ensino da Administracao. O artigo dialoga com a literatura internacional mais recente e busca interessar os leitores sobre os principais desafios conceituais para educar individuos responsaveis e comprometidos com a sustentabilidade.

The dark side : critical cases on the downside of business

This paper describes the authors solution to the challenges of turning a no-distance collaboration into a long-distance one. The solution was The Dark Side of The Force, a new coding environment designed to meet the authors’ needs. In this paper we describe what led to the development of The Dark Side, and how The Dark Side led to new artistic paths.

Re-Mapping Corporate Environmental Management Paradigms

This paper uses a radical approach to propose a classification of corporate environmental management that goes beyond technical jargon, corporate “mixed messages,” and short-term operations. The author proposes to map the paradigms underpinning the three main forms of corporate environmental management to be composed of (1) a specific of framing the issue of CEM, and correspondingly, to a set of representations of (2) the firm, of (3) the natural environment, and of (4) the relation between the firm and the natural environment. I identified three paradigms. The first form is incremental; it involves business operations and is essentially a reactive behavior, whereby companies reduce their direct impact on the biosphere. The second form is adaptive; it strives to design production and organizational systems along the lines of ecosystems dynamics. This second form of CEM attempts to reorganize corporate activities in terms of flow and energy processes integrated and interdependent with those of other firms. The third form of CEM is radical.

Innovation in business‐community partnerships: evaluating the impact of local enterprise and global investment models on poverty, bio‐diversity and development

Purpose – Over the last decade, several innovative business‐community partnerships have emerged to address simultaneously two pressing development issues: poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation. The purpose of this paper is to identify relevant models and to propose a first evaluation of these models in relation to development.Design/methodology/approach – The models were identified following a literature review and were evaluated using Amartya Sens definition of poverty.Findings – The paper identifies two models: the local enterprise model and the global investment model. While the local model relies mainly on local resources, the global investment model includes local and global organizations and institutions. The paper has analyzed the respective impacts of these new business‐community partnerships, including their governance schemes, on communities and ecosystems through the lens of Amartya Sens definition of poverty and development. The key finding is double. First, both these models are s...

Pluralism in Organizations: Learning from Unconventional Forms of Organizations

The bureaucratic organization is still regarded as the conventional organizational form, but is ill-suited to an increasingly pluralistic world. Research on the variety of organizational forms has increased dramatically over the past three decades and offers the potential to understand better how pluralism is manifested and managed within organizations. However, this research remains fragmented. The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesize research on unconventional organizations to explore how organizations resolve or attenuate the tensions related to pluralism. Drawing from research in leading management journals, it covers seven distinct literatures: ‘referent organization’, ‘temporary organization’, ‘pluralistic organization’, ‘meta-organization’, ‘bridging organization’, ‘hybrid organization’ and ‘field-configuring event’. For each literature, the authors trace the genealogy of the key concepts and review their distinct insights regarding organizational pluralism. They then synthesize and discuss their collective contributions and conclude with avenues of research for pluralism in organizations.

Education for sustainability in management courses: reflection on paradigms and practices

Na ultima decada, multiplicaram-se os modulos, cursos e programas relacionados a sustentabilidade no ensino superior em geral, assim como mais especificamente no ensino da Administracao. O proposito deste artigo e apresentar uma reflexao e uma avaliacao de tais esforcos e mapear caminhos para a construcao de modulos, cursos e programas por meio de uma reflexao sobre paradigmas da educacao e suas praticas. O objetivo e contribuir no debate sobre o papel da educacao superior e notadamente dos cursos de Administracao e Gestao, na medida em que se observa um significativo aumento do numero de instituicoes de ensino superior que apresentam efetiva motivacao para formar estudantes com conhecimento e habilidades necessarios para colocar a sustentabilidade no centro de suas futuras atividades de gestao. Apresenta-se uma reflexao sobre as principais vertentes de pensamento e os debates atuais, identificam-se as ambiguidades e contradicoes, e se apresentam as possibilidades de integracao do tema da sustentabilidade nos cursos de Administracao. Os autores trazem a tona a tematica da sustentabilidade nas empresas e seu dialogo com a academia, bem como as implicacoes da emergencia da sociedade de risco para a educacao superior e as escolas de Administracao. Tambem se abordam as correntes de pensamento da economia e ecologia propostas para a educacao, dentro de paradigmas que tratem da complexidade e insercao da sustentabilidade na educacao superior e nas escolas de Administracao. O artigo esta estruturado em quatro secoes: a primeira mapeia a sociedade de risco e o pensamento economico recente, e esboca os fundamentos/premissas da sociedade, bem como os paradigmas da educacao; a segunda apresenta um levantamento sobre promocao/difusao da sustentabilidade na educacao superior, destacando contexto, resultados e desafios; a terceira foca a sustentabilidade no ensino da Administracao e seus principais desafios; e a ultima secao propoe tres caminhos para integrar o tema da sustentabilidade no ensino da Administracao, com as competencias para o desenvolvimento sustentavel, e, finalmente, as implicacoes, os obstaculos e as possibilidades de integrar a sustentabilidade no ensino da Administracao. O artigo dialoga com a literatura internacional mais recente e busca interessar os leitores sobre os principais desafios conceituais para educar individuos responsaveis e comprometidos com a sustentabilidade.

Challenging Stakeholder Salience: Lessons from Dormant Local Stakeholders

Abstract 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 to know who they are as well as their attributes. Consequently, Mitchell et al. (1997) developed the stakeholder salience theory to help managers and organizations identify the power of certain stakeholders and their salience to the organization. With a few exceptions, the mainstream stakeholder salience theory is in many ways still largely static, short-term oriented, and firm-centered. The aim of this paper is to revisit certain conformist assumptions concerning the role of marginalized stakeholders, or “dormant” stakeholders, in stakeholder thinking. Overall, this chapter is a call to a new conceptualization of stakeholders that reintroduces stakeholder dynamics at the core of stakeholder thinking to overcome its restrictive shortcomings. We argue that managing stakeholder relationships is not simply meeting stakeholder demands but also involves taking into account the long-term dynamics of stakeholder interactions.

From mines to minds: addressing the skills gap in Sierra Leone

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 London Mining Corporation and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH were discussing the details about the official launch of the From Mines to Minds project. The From Mines to Minds project consisted of two components technical, vocational and educational training at St. Josephs and functional adult literacy for people who could not benefit from the upgrade of St. Josephs in 17 communities around the mine site. Each of them had committed 200,000 euros to the project. While the mining company favored an early launch due to internal and external pressures, the development agency evaluated that they needed to have a consolidated program before ad...

Alicia Meneces and the challenges of Aguablanca

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 development. These teaching notes result from this in-class experience. Case overview The morning of January 22, 2009. Cali, Colombia – Alicia Meneces was a member of the inaugural panel of the Simposio Internacional: Microfinanzas y Construccion de Paz (International Symposium: Microfinance as a Tool for Peacebuilding). The panel was composed of Alvaro Uribe (President of the Republic of Colombia), Enrique Garcia Rodriguez (President of the Development Bank of Latin America-CAF) and Luis Alberto Moreno (President of the Inter-American Development Bank). Her presence contrasted with that of the other panelists on several accounts: she was the only woman, she was the only panelist with direct and daily experience in poor neighborhoods and she was the only one familiar with the everyday processes of community mobilization in relation to microcredit in underprivileged communities. The case focuses on the message that Alicia Meneces intended to deliver to the audience of the Symposium based on her trajectory as a woman, as a community leader, and as the founder of the first Grameen microfinance institution in Colombia. Expected learning outcomes After using this case, students will be able to improve their understanding of poverty traps in developing countries; appreciate the challenges of living in poverty and the mechanisms of poverty production; and understand different forms of leadership. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes.

Hydro-Québec and the Crees: the challenges of being accountable to First Nations – case and teaching notes

This case highlights various phases in four decades of relations between Hydro-Quebec, 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 perspective of a social license to operate at the interorganisational level; 2) management accounting processes, which translate into corporate commitments and agreements concerning accountability and transparency. The major purpose of this case is to provide material (background) for discussion on how a company can improve its corporate social responsibility by enhancing transparency and accountability towards its stakeholders. This case illustrates how Hydro-Quebec has used accountability mechanisms such as voluntary and mandatory disclosure, environmental impact measurement and assessment, and compensation to engage with the First Nations and to build a long-term reciprocity-based relationship with them.