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Les firmes face au développement soutenable : changement technologique et gouvernance au sein de la dynamique industrielle

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  • Sylvie Faucheux
  • Isabelle Nicolaï

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[eng] In the 1980s, confronted with the emergence of global environmental problems, new practices have highlighted the question of how to reconcile the attainment of economic goals with environmental protection. Firms play a fundamental role through the endogenisation of technological change, within the perspective of implementing win-win strategies. We question the role of environmental technological innovation and the conditions of their implementation. However, allowing competition among firms to become the only factor determining environmental strategies could possibly lead to lock-in situations, where technological and social options have been chosen, which may in the long term be non-sustainable. It is for this underlying reason that we introduce as complements to competitiveness, the requirement for new forms of governance. [fre] Avec l'émergence de problèmes globaux d'environnement dans les années 1980, de nouvelles pratiques visent à réconcilier l'activité économique et la préservation de la qualité environnementale. Les firmes jouent un rôle fondamental vis-à-vis d'une endogénéisation du changement technologique dans le cadre de stratégies « win-win ». Nous nous interrogeons sur le rôle de l'innovation technologique environnementale et sur les conditions de sa mise en oeuvre. Laisser l'initiative des choix stratégiques en matière environnementale à la seule compétitivité industrielle peut conduire à des options technologiques et sociales « verrouillées » loin de toute trajectoire de soutenabilité. Aussi, à côté de la compétitivité d'autres notions comme la « gouvernance » sont-elles introduites.

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  • Sylvie Faucheux & Isabelle Nicolaï, 1998. "Les firmes face au développement soutenable : changement technologique et gouvernance au sein de la dynamique industrielle," Revue d'Économie Industrielle, Programme National Persée, vol. 83(1), pages 127-146.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recind:rei_0154-3229_1998_num_83_1_1704
    DOI: 10.3406/rei.1998.1704
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    1. Vanessa Oltra & Maider Saint Jean, 2005. "The dynamics of environmental innovations: three stylised trajectories of clean technology," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(3), pages 189-212.
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    6. Vanessa OLTRA & Maïder SAINT JEAN, 2009. "Environmental Innovations and Industrial Dynamics (In French)," Cahiers du GREThA (2007-2019) 2009-22, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA).

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