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Organizing among citizens for a societal transition: Insight from Follettian theory
[S'autoorganiser pour engager une transition vers une société circulaire : Eclairage de la théorie Follettienne]

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  • Anne-Claire Savy

    (MRM - Montpellier Research in Management - UM1 - Université Montpellier 1 - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UM2 - Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School, ADEME - Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie, CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes)

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Nowadays, a transition to a circular economy is being considered facing the assessment of the threatened or exceeded limits of our planet. This article seeks to understand how a self-organized dynamic can emerge to engage it. Accompanying research puts into perspective a collective citizen project of transition towards a circular society (TVSC) with the perspectives of actors, researchers and theories of self-organization. The analysis of an abundant material, in floating attention and manual inductive NVivo coding, shows an emergence through individual commitment facing successive needs for cooperation. The dynamic operates through cooperative work cycles flowed by the diversity of actors, collectively appropriating the contributions, challenges and perspectives. It materializes through a TVSC project, transforming the situation from which it emerges and overcoming its brakes through continuous mutual reflexivity. These results illustrate and extend the Follettian theory to study TVSC and then respond to the limitations of neighboring theories of self-organization.

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  • Anne-Claire Savy, 2022. "Organizing among citizens for a societal transition: Insight from Follettian theory [S'autoorganiser pour engager une transition vers une société circulaire : Eclairage de la théorie Follettienne]," Working Papers hal-04312606, HAL.
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