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International audience; Par son immensité, sans doute aussi par son éloignement de nos considérations quotidiennes, l'océan nous semble capable d'encaisser tous les coups que nous lui faisons subir : plastique, réchauffement, acidification, surconsommation des ressources, introductions d'entités chimiques nouvelles, perte de biodiversité et d'habitat. Il est urgent d'adresser ces menaces qui font courir le risque d'un effondrement irrémédiable des écosystèmes naturels et humains. Pour ce faire, nous appelons de nos voeux le développement de Sustainable Ocean Studies dont le management pourrait constituer la clé de voute. Car hélas, alors que l'océan fait l'objet de nombreuses recherches en sciences de la Terre, il semble à l'inverse oublié du management. Dans ce dossier, nous abordons l'océan comme enjeu pour la recherche en management à travers trois éclairages : celui de la plongée sous-marine, celui de la consommation de faune menacée et enfin celui de la recherche en mer, nécessairement interdisciplinaire

Organizing practices at the collective level of firms and entrepreneurs, i.e. ‘meta-organizing’, is a necessity for the development and diffusion of sustainable innovations. This paper seeks to build a meta-organization approach of sustainable innovation’s governance. To do so, we conducted a three-stage literature review and analysis to 1) identify organizational capabilities that businesses need to acquire to develop sustainable innovations, 2) uncover attributes of meta-organizations as devices for governance, 3) relate these attributes to the capabilities for sustainable innovations. Our contributions are twofold: first we build a more comprehensive understanding of organizational capabilities, insisting on the overlooked importance of accountability, in addition to existing literature on anticipation, resilience, reflexivity, responsiveness and inclusion. Second, we highlight the key role of meta-organizations in facilitating the meta-governance of these capabilities. We propose a research agenda to further investigate these issues in several families of meta-organizations. Meta-Organizing Firms’ Capabilities for... (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321491104_Meta-Organizing_Firms'_Capabilities_for_Sustainable_Innovation_a_Conceptual_Framework [accessed Apr 05 2018].

In a recent issue in this journal, Lawton et al. and Spillman argue for the importance of studying trade associations, also referred to with the broader term meta-organization. They discuss why meta-organizations matter and why more research is needed on the topic. We fully concur with the authors that meta-organizations constitute an inflating, diverse, and undeniable phenomenon of collective action among organizations and that collective scholarly efforts are necessary to improve our understanding of meta-organizations in their multiplicity. In this article, we shed some light on a body of work already investigating the matter. They constitute what we call the “European School” of meta-organization. We show the relevance of this recent European work for the US–UK-oriented trade association research and aim to bridge the gap between these research traditions by proposing a common research agenda on key topics of resources, forms’ differentiation, coopetition, and their role in sustainability governance.

International audience; Few industries have been pressured to develop corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards and policies like oil and gas. This has translated into the creation of non-governmental organizations and branches of the oil and gas firms focused on CSR. However, given the intrinsic complex characteristics of this industry, its global reach, and the fact that its operations affect and involve a wide variety of stakeholders, CSR issues cannot be defined and implemented exclusively at the industry or firm levels, but require the participation of other actors affected directly or indirectly by oil and gas activities. In this paper we argue, first, that oil and gas CSR issues are collectively constructed through meta-organizations (organizations composed by other organizations), and, second, that the complexity and variety of CSR issues require companies to build industry-specific and non-industry-specific collective actions. Based on how oil and gas firms participate in this multi-level co-construction of CSR issues, we created a typology of meta-organizations as infra-sectoral, sectoral, cross-sectoral, and supra-sectoral meta-organizations.

International audience; In this essay, we criticize how the performativity thesis, as described and exemplified in Do Economists Make Markets, has focused primarily on the field of economics generally and business school–based financial economics consequently. By doing so the performativity literature has ignored whether, when, and how financial economics outperforms, or might be outperformed by, other business school sciences, such as management. In other words, just as a firm’s economic performance depends on its capacity to outperform its competitors, we suggest that the performativity of a science, like financial economics, also results from its capacity to outperform other sciences, like management.; Cet essai critique la thèse de la performativité, c’est-à-dire la capacité d’une théorie à créer la réalité qu’elle décrit, telle qu’elle est abordée dans Do Economists Make Markets, un ouvrage qui s’est concentré principalement sur le champ de l’économie en général et de l’économie financière enseignée dans les business schools plus précisément. De ce fait, la littérature sur la performativité a ignoré si, quand et comment l’économie financière surperforme ou peut être surperformée par, les autres disciplines de gestion, telle que le management. Tout comme la performance financière d’une firme dépend de sa capacité à surperformer ses concurrents, nous suggérons dans cet essai que la performativité d’une science résulte aussi de sa capacité à surperformer les autres sciences, comme le management