顾问是促进可持续发展的谨慎的企业变革推动者:由外而内的组织变革

IF 3.6 2区 哲学 Q2 BUSINESS
Jean-Pascal Gond, Luc Brès, Szilvia Mosonyi
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摘要

尽管可持续发展顾问在美德市场的建设和发展中,以及在企业可持续发展战略和政府可持续发展政策的设计、实施和评估中发挥着核心作用,但他们充其量仍然是 "隐藏的 "企业变革推动者。在本文中,我们将把可持续发展顾问重新推到前台,以说明这些行动者是如何从外到内谨慎地调节和塑造当代可持续发展变革的。为此,我们首先解读了顾问作为工程师、市场建设者、权力载体、边界工作者、问题翻译者和软监管者所扮演的各种角色;然后,我们从概念上阐述了顾问如何通过这些角色,为企业内部的企业变革推动者的活动赋权、使其合法化,但也有可能取代和破坏这些活动。最后,我们为进一步研究可持续发展顾问在企业可持续发展转型中的作用提出了一些研究方向。
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Consultants as discreet corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the outside-in

Consultants as discreet corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the outside-in

Despite their central role in the construction and development of the market for virtues as well as in the design, implementation, and evaluation of corporate sustainability strategies and governmental sustainability policies, sustainability consultants remain at best “hidden” corporate change agents. In this paper, we bring sustainability consultants back to the fore to account for how these actors discreetly regulate and shape contemporary sustainability transformations from the outside-in. We do so first by unpacking various roles of consultants as engineers, market builders, power vehicles, boundary workers, issue translators, and soft regulators; then we conceptualize how, through these roles, they contribute to empowering, legitimizing but also potentially supplanting and undermining the activities of corporate change agents operating inside corporations. We finally propose some research orientations for studying further the role of sustainability consultants in corporate transformations toward sustainability.

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