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The Multiplicity of Paths to Sustainability, Grand Challenges and Routine Changes: The Long Road for Bordeaux Winemakers

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  • Nathalie Lazaric

    (GREDEG, CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, France
    University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

  • Loubna Echajari

    (GREDEG, CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, France
    Tech-CICO Research Group - LIST3N
    UTT - Université de Technologie de Troyes, France)

  • Dorota Leszczyńska

    (IDRAC Business School, campus de Nice, France)

Abstract

We explore potential changes to the organizational routines of Bordeaux winemakers faced with the need to reduce their use of pesticides – one of the grand challenges for agriculture. A routine dynamics lens suggests that the goal of sustainability can be achieved through various paths. The uncertainties related to reducing the use of chemical pesticides to encourage ecological biodiversity have resulted in efforts by viticulturalists, winemakers, and policy makers to find local solutions. Our results reveal a three-layered process of patterning and creating new routines. Our empirical findings contribute to theoretical work on routine dynamics and grand challenges. We show that there are several potential solutions to environmental problems based on new patterns and demonstrate that reflection is a major structural enabler of changes. Our research explores the ontological multiplicity of routines in the journey to achieving sustainability and the role of policy making in this process.

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  • Nathalie Lazaric & Loubna Echajari & Dorota Leszczyńska, 2025. "The Multiplicity of Paths to Sustainability, Grand Challenges and Routine Changes: The Long Road for Bordeaux Winemakers," GREDEG Working Papers 2025-27, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France.
    • Handle: RePEc:gre:wpaper:2025-27
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    Keywords

    Routines Dynamics; Practices; Sustainability; Viticulture; Winemaking;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • R5 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis
    • L21 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Business Objectives of the Firm
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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