Environmental Scanning and Sustainable Development

Klappentext This work is an initial exploration of the relationship between scanning and sustainable development. In ten chapters, the authors examine the application, characteristics and implementation of scanning oriented toward sustainable development. Thus the work offers some answers to the questions "what is sustainable scanning?", "what new issues does it raise for management practice and management science?", "what forms can it take?" and "how...?" Zusammenfassung This work is an initial exploration of the relationship between scanning and sustainable development. In ten chapters, the authors examine the application, characteristics and implementation of scanning oriented toward sustainable development. Thus the work offers some answers to the questions "what is sustainable scanning?", "what new issues does it raise for management practice and management science?", "what forms can it take?" and "how...?" Inhaltsverzeichnis 25647111

List of contents

Introduction xi

Nicholas LESCA

Chapter 1. Sustainable Development: a Vague and Ambiguous"Theory" 1
Yvon PESQUEUX

1.1. Introduction 1

1.2. Sustainable development as a "vague" theory6

1.3. Company actions justified by reference to the notion ofsustainable development: consequentialism tested by moderndeontology 9

1.4. The dimensions of ambiguity of the notion 14

1.5. Conclusion: calling into question managerial references inrelation to sustainable development 19

1.6. Bibliography 22

Chapter 2. Parameters and Particularities of SustainableDevelopment-oriented Strategic Scanning 25
Marie-Laurence CARON-FASAN

2.1. Introduction 25

2.2. Strategic scanning 26

2.3. Applying a sustainable development-oriented strategicscanning process 36

2.4. Conclusion 44

2.5. Bibliography 45

Chapter 3. Sustainable Development of Large Network ServiceCompanies: Inhabiting Territories via Middle Managers, StrategicScanners 47
Alain Charles MARTINET and Marielle Audrey PAYAUD

3.1. Introduction 47

3.2. The foundation of modeling 48

3.3. The architecture of the model 52

3.4. Middle managers: key players of sustainable development62

3.5. Conclusion 71

3.6. Bibliography 72

Chapter 4. Small Business and Sustainable Development77
Michel MARCHESNAY

4.1. Introduction 77

4.2. The favored SD fields 77

4.3. SB: a multiple identity 79

4.4. Strategic scanning in SBs: a specific approach 84

4.5. Types of entrepreneurs, strategic scanning and SD 87

4.6. Conclusion 98

4.7. Bibliography 99

Chapter 5. Human Resources Scanning: a Tool for theImplementation of Sustainable Development? 101
Marie-Christine CHALUS-SAUVANNET

5.1. Introduction 101

5.2. Theoretical approach, explanations and the link between HRSand SD 102

5.3. Research methodology 109

5.4. Results and discussion 111

5.5. Conclusion 124

5.6. Bibliography 125

Chapter 6. Sustainable Scanning in a Network: an AmbitiousProject for Company/territory Synergies Creation 129
Magalie MARAIS, Solange HERNANDEZ and Olivier KERAMIDAS

6.1. Introduction 129

6.2. Sustainable scanning within RPISED: a"chameleon" concept locally orchestrated 131

6.3. An empirical study of sustainable scanning in the RPISED: amethodological approach 140

6.4. Empirical contributions to the theory: presentation of themain results 143

6.5. Conclusion 156

6.6. Bibliography 157

Chapter 7. The Greenhouse Gas Inventory: a Scanning Tool inthe Fight Against Climate Change 161
Odile BLANCHARD

7.1. Introduction 161

7.2. Methodology for constructing a GHG inventory 163

7.3. The GHG inventory as a strategic scanning tool 173

7.4. Conclusion 180

7.5. Bibliography 182

Chapter 8. Targeting "Sustainable Scanning": aMethodology Based on Logistics and Supply Chain Management185
Nathalie FABBE-COSTES, Christine ROUSSAT and Jacques COLIN

8.1. Introduction 185

8.2. Sustainable development: multiple logistical stakes 186

8.3. Relevance of logistics and SCM to anticipate evolutionslinked to sustainable development and imagine strategic directions:examples 191

8.4. The logistics intelligence process to target sustainablescanning 196

8.5. Confronting LIP and sustainable development: a first testbased on secondary data 203

8.6. Conclusion 207

8.7. Bibliography 208

Chapter 9. Our Actions and Projects, their Risks and Impacton the Environment: using the Weak Signal Concept to ExploreUnforeseen and Unexpected Possibilities 213
Nicolas LESCA

9.1. Introduction 213

9.2. The future: a field of possibilities 215

9.3. Detecting weak signals and early (warning) signs in orderto explore unexpected possibilities 229

9.4. Conclusion 244

9.5. Bibliography 244

Chapter 10. Sustainable Chemistry and Weak Signals: CO2 as aRaw Material to Value 249
Humbert LESCA

10.1. Introduction 249

10.2. First step: lead the committee to discover the field ofsustainable chemistry themselves 253

10.3

About the author

Nicolas LESCA is Lecturer at LIG and CERAG.

Summary

This work is an initial exploration of the relationship between scanning and sustainable development. In ten chapters, the authors examine the application, characteristics and implementation of scanning oriented toward sustainable development.

Product details

• Authors: N Lesca, Nicolas Lesca
• Assisted by: Nicolas Lesca (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2011
• EAN: 9781848212848
• ISBN: 978-1-84821-284-8
• Series: ISTE; ISTE
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Umweltmanagement, Umweltforschung, Environmental Studies, Environmental Management, Policy & Planning, Umweltmanagement, Politik u. -Planung