THE CLIMATE RESILIENCE OF COMPANIES
In VIE ET SCIENCES DE L’ENTREPRISE
Jean-Jacques Pluchart
Chairman of the VSE Editorial Board
The academic journal Vie et Sciences de l’Entreprise (VSE), created in 1960 by the Association Nationale des Docteurs en Sciences Économiques (ANDESE)* has published two special issues devoted respectively to the climate resilience of companies (No. 220, 10 editors, 130 pages) and to the application of the Environment Social Governance or ESG principles (No. 221/222, 50 editors, 415 pages). The topics covered deserve the attention of the many readers of clubturgot.com.
Issue 220 raises three main questions: do ESG-based management and sustainability reporting contribute to improving a company’s resilience? How is this management exercised in the financial sector? What transformations should be implemented to improve business skills, management training and managerial culture? The research presented shows the progress made by socially responsible companies in terms of performance, organization and values shared with their stakeholders.
Issue 221/222 combines several research projects that address original issues raised in the social and societal fields, through the promotion of social enterprises, the cost of free labor, the search for parity between men and women in the public service, the role of standardization in ethical management, the psychological and social capital of a new employee, personalized entrepreneurial support, the inclusion of people with disabilities, etc.; in the industrial and environmental fields, by the management of a sustainable supply chain, the measurement of the home-work footprint, the contribution of design thinking to creation, coopetition within incubators; in the financial field, the paradoxes of financial inclusion, the types of extra-financial audit, financial communication targeting generation Z, institutional activism in F&A, and in the field of governance, the sharing of the leadership of an organization, the entrenchment of leaders, the governance of public companies, the management of a company with a mission.
The diversity of these reflections testifies to the vitality of university research and the diversity of issues facing private and public enterprises today.
* Each year, ANDESE organizes the international French-speaking competition for the Best Doctoral Theses in Economics and Management, whose jury includes several members of the Turgot Club.
