Citation
Pesqueux, Y. (2015), "Editorial", Society and Business Review, Vol. 10 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-08-2015-0040
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Editorial
Article Type: Editorial From: Society and Business Review, Volume 10, Issue 3
This issue is built with six papers.
In “Business Models and the Diffusion of Eco-innovations in the Eco-mobility Sector”, I. Nicolai and S. Faucheux argue about the fact that private vehicle use represents 60 per cent of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions coming from road transport. What mobility solutions might be proposed, to respond to individual mobility needs while nonetheless proposing products or mobility services with as low a social cost as possible? Several major changes in mobility behavior patterns and “lifestyles” can be anticipated for coming years, linked, on the one hand, to habits and expectations of the new “connected” generations and, on the other hand, to the growing “senior” (elderly) populations. One might imagine a changing demand for safer and more “connected” (smart) mobility options, more easily accessible and adapted to different needs, and more environmentally friendly. What might be the strategies on the supply side? In this paper, they seek to identify and to characterize the current evolution of “sustainable mobility” solutions.
In “Directors Networks and Access to Collective Resources”, G. Breton and S. Dicko investigate the ties between the nomination of board members and the different external resources needed by a firm. Using a case study approach, they document the ties between the members of the board of a major Canadian firm and different categories of resources. They also compare their results with those of a similar study made on data gathered in 2007. To explain the formation of a board of directors, they will refer to the resource dependency theory. Then, they will use some tools from the networks theories to help describe the relationships between persons and organizations.
W. Khlif has collected a set of four papers presented with a covering text (“Capitalism is dead […] long live capitalism: a Deleuzian approach for sustainability”):
S. Zouaghi: “Ethnic segmentation in marketing: a tool for social domination in France”.
K.A. Seny Khan, S.M. Apitsa and E. Adgebite: “‘African Management’: Concept, Content and Usability”.
N. Chabrak: “Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: A Model of Integrity”.
T. Clarke: “Changing Paradigms in Corporate Governance: New Cycles and New Responsibilities”.
At the end, Y. Bazin who has become co-editor of SBR has written “10 years later, why is an academic journal about society and business more relevant than ever?”
Yvon Pesqueux
CNAM, Paris, France