Chairs, Agreements and Contracts

Our Chairs

A number of Chairs are currently hosted within our Institute for Sustainability through Innovation (IRSI) as well as within our research area ‘Sustainable Development and CSR’.

Current themes:

• Strategy, Standards, and Management of Social Responsibility
  This Chair strives to design and implement CSR strategies in companies and, more broadly, in all types of organisations. Its aim is to understand all the mechanisms (employee training and engagement, appropriation, and organisational learning, formalisation of processes, prioritisation, etc.) that underpin the development and implementation of responsible approaches
• Extended Accounting & Sustainable Finance 
  The aim of this Chair is to create, develop, adapt and analyse new models, tools, and solutions enabling organisations to manage and report on responsible initiatives. This Chair focusses on extended accounting, management control, and extra-financial reporting. It also encompasses all the management tools required to better understand and address CSR issues (in terms of HR, the environment, the supply chain, etc.). Intervention research is the most frequently used methodology
• Sustainable Development & Regions
  This Chair is concerned with all ecosystem-based approaches (third places, ecosystems, local projects) that can be developed within regions as a means of managing a common interest (energy transition, local resources, sustainability, tourism heritage, etc.). Its objective is to understand how institutional and individual players can work together on projects designed to manage natural or intangible common interests.
• Sustainable Supply Chain 
  This Chair seeks to promote Sustainable Development and CSR throughout the entire supply chain of organisations including multinationals, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), Very Small Businesses (VSBs), public bodies, associations, etc. From the extraction of raw materials to the end-of-life of a product or service, this Chair addresses issues such as responsible purchasing (ISO 20400), the selection and management of suppliers, the respect for human rights in a context of globalisation of business activities, the carbon footprint of transportation, production and transformation processes, as well as the management of return flows, the digitalisation of the supply chain, industrial relocation, and the identification and involvement of stakeholders both within and outside the supply chain.
• Societal Innovation 
  This Chair brings together research projects focussing on partnerships and alternative organisations to reconsider our production and consumption models with a view to ensuring greater sustainability.