Institute of Sustainable Business and Organizations (ISBO) constitutes the "pôle 8" of the UCLy Research Center.
ISBO addresses major social and management issues, in response to ESDES' mission: to prepare students and professionals, through Education and Research, to create sustainable value in order to foster the emergence of a responsible economy in a globalized and digital world.
Institute of Sustainable Business and Organizations – Inspiring CSR: transformative and impactful research
Responsible management is the key requirement expected by stakeholders from their organizations. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a major strategic asset and many actions are being elaborated and implemented.
The pathway to responsible management is by addressing social and environmental issues through genuine changes, which generally require significant commitment, resource investment, and modification of practices. It very often encounters a myriad of conflicts, forces, and paradoxes that make it tempting to give up.
As such, ISBO’s faculty members offer their expertise around four domains: being, doing, showing and engaging in CSR. We research how socially and environmentally responsible companies are, how they take actions to convert these commitments into a reality, how they communicate and share their difficulties as much as their achievements during that endeavor, and importantly, how they engage others to move past conflicts and paradoxes inherent in simultaneous pursuits of economic, social, and environmental goals. Through our transformative and impactful research, we inspire different stakeholders (including academic community, students, managers and society) to commit to the endeavor of CSR not only with their heads and hands, but also with their hearts.
Key Figures
"Through the training of future ethical and responsible managers, as well as through the diffusion of their work in this collected volume, ESDES faculty members thus contribute to embody in the mindsets as well as in the managerial practices of companies, what might have otherwise, likely remained a mere academic subject. We can now fully appreciate the extent of the social responsibility of a Business School and its faculty in economics and management.
Gerald NARO, MRM, Montpellier Management, University of Montpellier
Review of the collective work "la responsabilité sociale des entreprises. Des relations sociales à la dimension stratégique" (Edition EMS, Questions de Société, Paris, 2020, Revue de l'Organisation Responsable, vol.16, pp. 40-42) coordinated by Christian LE BAS and Sylvaine MERCURI CHAPUIS, (ISBO faculty members).
