Managerial work, between exploitation and exploration activities facing sustainability issues: The case of an SME in collective catering for adults at work

Le travail managérial, entre exploration et exploitation face aux enjeux de durabilité: cas d’une PME en restauration collective pour adultes au travail

Alice Lyonnet (), Marianne Cerf (), Chloé Le Bail () and Gwenola Yannou-Le Bris ()
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Alice Lyonnet: INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Marianne Cerf: SADAPT - Sciences pour l'Action et le Développement : Activités, Produits, Territoires - AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Chloé Le Bail: CPU - Cognition, Perception et Usages - LISN - LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique - Inria - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - CentraleSupélec - Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - IaH - Interaction avec l'Humain - LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique - Inria - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - CentraleSupélec - Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Gwenola Yannou-Le Bris: SayFood - Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering - AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: In France, the 2016 EGalim law requires an increase in the sustainability of the offer of products and services (OPS) particularly in the Collective Catering sector (CC). Introducing a more sustainable offering in an SME, requires managers to manage an organizational ambidexterity and to balance between a logic of exploitation (strengthening the existing) and the one of exploration (innovation). Based on a diachronic and processual approach, this study examines the case of the "RECHO" association, which has implemented actions for a sustainable OPS. The data are analyzed to understand how the manager constructs coherence in sustainable actions, negotiates the constraints of the CC, and mobilizes necessary resources to do so. The context of an associative SME and the sector's constraints make exploration difficult despite the external support sought by the manager.

Keywords: Organizational ambidexterity; Sustainability; Managerial work; Organisational change; Ambidextrie organisationnelle; Durabilité; Ttravail managérial; Changement organisationnel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-09-26
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Published in Congrès RIODD 2024 : Imaginer, expérimenter et pérenniser la soutenabilité forte. Quelles institutions en Europe et au-delà ?, RIODD, Sep 2024, Bruxelles, Belgique

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