Responsible Management and Practices
The group is led by Angélique Rodhain and Claire Gillet-Monjarret.
The Responsible Management and Practices (RMP) research group brings together faculty members and doctoral students from various disciplinary research groups at the Montpellier Management Research Laboratory, as well as associate researchers from other institutions.
RESEARCH TOPICS
The research topics covered by this cross-disciplinary focus area are based on the work carried out by researchers at the MRM laboratory in the areas of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility (CSR/CSO). The research focuses mainly on the themes of social reporting, non-financial management in organizations, responsible entrepreneurship and sustainable development in SMEs, socially responsible consumption, sustainable finance, responsible HRM, and the social responsibility of higher education institutions.
In addition, the Research Area is participating in the Occitanie Region's Circulades key challenge. This key challenge brings together researchers from several laboratories in Occitanie working on the theme of the circular economy (CE). The aim of this project is to develop regional momentum on the theme of CE, forge academic and industrial partnerships, and fuel the dialogue between science and society. The goal is to promote transdisciplinarity and partnerships with local stakeholders. The theme of the project led by the MPR Key Challenge focuses on the circular economy in higher education institutions.
The aim is therefore to mobilize all or some of the researchers involved in CSR and SD-related topics within their disciplinary groups around one or more joint projects, with a view to creating synergies with the work of the groups. The goal of better uniting researchers around joint multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary projects is also reflected in the organization of events on sustainable development issues, including facilitation and training in the Circular Economy Fresco and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
The Responsible Management and Practices division is committed to the Circulades Key Challenge.
Circulades is a group of 36 laboratories belonging to research organizations across the Occitanie region, working together with the aim of conducting pioneering and applied research on the circular economy.
The interdisciplinary expertise of this consortium aims to build a scientific foundation for this development model in order to offer decision-making tools to institutions, entrepreneurs, citizens, etc.
Within the Circulades project, the Responsible Management and Practices division coordinates the ASECT Project for a Systemic Approach to the Circular Economy in the Territory.
The ASECT project aims to propose a systemic approach to the circular economy (CE) that allows it to be studied as a complex system with a global and interdisciplinary vision. We will propose a global multi-scale model representing the circular economy based on several case studies. In each identified case study, the first step will be to observe the existing situation, then to create a generic representation that can be reused in other comparable case studies, and finally to cross-reference the results to create a common basis for these elements (1). The next step will be to use action research and the data collected in the previous step to identify the relevant measures for each case study and test these measures through a feedback loop. This work will enable us to propose indicators for assessing the circularity and sustainability of circular sectors and to build global scenarios at different scales (region-city-university, etc.) (2). The next step will be to study the roles of stakeholders and behaviors, particularly in decision-making, following the proposal of measurement indicators and management tools, in order to analyze the acceptability of these new territorial and economic models (3). Ultimately, this will give us a cross-cutting representation of the definition of the circular economy in a given territory and a master plan for its implementation.