Social requirements concerning corporate social responsibility focus on transparency and harmlessness of firm activities : a factory or a quarry must be invisible, odorless, and silent. Firms must show that they respect those requirements in order to gain legitimacy. They must change...

Les exigences de la société en matière de responsabilité sociétale portent sur la transparence et l’innocuité des activités de l’entreprise : l’usine que l’on construit ou la carrière que l’on exploite se doivent d’être invisibles, inodores, insonores. L’entreprise se doit...

The emergence of the concept of ’sustainable development’leads companies to redefine the notion of performance and to implement practices to manage it.An exploratory research, undertaken in five multinational companies, highlights changes in their management systems and shows that companies...