LA DÉMOCRATIE PARTICIPATIVE AU PRISME DE L’ANALYSE DES CONTROVERSES ET DE LA RSE

Abstract

How to increase participatory democracy to better avoid controversy? How to identify alternative controversy avoidance strategies that promote learning and progress? In order to answer these questions, this article explores two avenues: analyzes controversies on the one hand, and examining the literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the other. In addition to (potentially) revealing controversy avoidance strategies not yet identified in the literature, these two avenues are complementary. CSR can contribute to the analysis of controversies by facilitating the identification of potential controversy points. In turn, the analysis of controversies can contribute to the reflection on the operationalization of CSR by offering tools to understand the trajectory of socio-environmental issues: systematic monitoring and symmetrical analysis