We use the neo-institutional and legitimacy theoretical perspective in order to analyze the “business case” i.e. the arguments in favor of sustainable development and best practices, stated by organizations of “The Big Model Companies” that are commited in CSR and want to incitate...

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...