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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]

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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)

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.

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  • Alice Lyonnet & Marianne Cerf & Chloé Le Bail & Gwenola Yannou-Le Bris, 2024. "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," Post-Print hal-04787901, HAL.
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    1. Anthony Hussenot & Isabelle Bouty & Tor Hernès, 2019. "Suivre et retranscrire l’organisation à partir des approches processuelles," Post-Print hal-02305724, HAL.
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