Olivier Boiral
Biographic Data
| ID | 3475245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivier Boiral |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivier |
| FAMILY NAME | Boiral |
| SIGNATURE | BOIRAL O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9722-7644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Avoiding Corporate Greenwashing? Sustainability Silence Narratives in the Agri‐Food Industry
The aim of this article is to shed more light on the reasons underlying companies' under‐communication or lack of communication to stakeholders about sustainability achievements in the agri‐food sector. A qualitative study based on 34 semi‐structured interviews with respondents from this sector shows the predominance of a rationale of sustainability silence and a high level of stakeholders' mistrust concerning the information publicly available i…
From Disclosure to Democracy? A Content Analysis of Stakeholder Engagement Processes in Sustainability Reports
As sustainability reporting has become mainstream, questions remain about whether disclosed stakeholder engagement supports more democratic forms of corporate accountability. This study examines the extent to which stakeholder engagement disclosures in sustainability reports reflect practices associated with stakeholder democracy and how these disclosures have evolved over time. Using a qualitative content analysis of sustainability reports from …
Building on Sand? Third-Party Sustainability Measures in the Business Literature
Third-party sustainability measures, such as ESG scores and rankings, are central to research linking corporate sustainability and financial performance. However, these measures lack transparency and vary significantly across providers, raising reliability concerns. This systematic review of 82 business journal articles (1995–2024) assesses how scholars engage with and critically assess these measures. We distinguish two sources of uncertainty th…
Management Responses to Climate Change
This article analyzes management scholars' recommendations for business managers on how to respond to climate change. It distinguishes recommendations by whether they propose responsiveness to climate change that aims for adaptation, mitigation, and resilience as short‐term orientations as well as transformation and regeneration as long‐term orientations. The analysis of 192 practical implications in 91 articles suggests that managers are recomme…
Navigating Uncertainties
Les mécanismes de surveillance politique sont essentiels pour évaluer le développement et l'efficacité des programmes climatiques publics. Malgré l'importance stratégique de l'information divulguée dans les documents de surveillance, les facteurs qui entachent la crédibilité des données sont peu étudiés. Le présent article explore la complexité de mesurer et de surveiller les programmes publics conçus pour réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de …
Comment promouvoir la consommation de protéines végétales
La consommation de protéines végétales présente plusieurs bénéfices sur le plan de la santé, de l’environnement et du développement du secteur agro-alimentaire. Malgré les avantages liés à la consommation de protéines végétales, la consommation de viande demeure souvent privilégiée. Cet article présente une revue de la littérature de presse visant à répertorier les interventions de promotion de la consommation de protéines végétales mises en plac…
What you see is what you get? Building confidence in ESG disclosures for sustainable finance through external assurance
The main objective of this study is to understand the value of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure assurance in the context of the development of sustainable finance standards and laws. This study is based on an analysis of 188 comment letters submitted by such actors in the context of public consultations on the development of three new sustainable finance initiatives (the CFA Institute, the Financial Conduct Authority in the …
Best Practices for Municipalities to Promote Online Citizen Participation and Engagement on Facebook
The objective of this study is to identify the best practices of Facebook use for municipalities looking to communicate and interact with their citizens, with a particular impact for rural municipalities. A narrative review was conducted to identify the scientific and gray literature on research databases and Google, respectively. A thematic analysis of the data was conducted to summarize the main strengths, challenges, and recommendations to imp…
Integrating recommendations from sustainability performance audits
This study explores how government organizations integrate audit recommendations and justify decoupling auditees’ commitments from organizational realities. Moreover, it examines the analysis of recommendations from 31 sustainability performance audits conducted in 20 Canadian public organizations over 12 years. The longitudinal approach adopted in this study revealed decoupling strategies in most audited organizations and a tendency to perpetuat…
Responsible sourcing in the food industry
Circular economy at the company level
Circular economy (CE) has attracted both media and academic interest. However, there is a lack of empirical work that clarifies the specific activities involved in CE at the firm level. To fill this gap, this article offers an analysis of how firms disclose information about their activities associated with CE, based on an extensive worldwide dataset of sustainability reports from 1367 companies. The findings point to a rather limited, superficia…
Promoting local food products for sustainability
The number of practices promoting local food have been rapidly growing in recent years, mainly in response to the increasing interest from consumers and their sustainability benefits. The objective of this scoping review is to present a taxonomy of the most promising promotion practices in this domain. A targeted search within a database specialized in storing newspaper articles resulted in the identification of 78 documents that were published p…
Failure to consider environmental risk
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption
Organizations' engagement with sustainable development goals
This article analyzes the organizational engagement with the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs), an initiative for corporate social responsibility also referred to as the 2030 Agenda. Engagement with the SDGs by organizations all around the world, whatever their sector and size, has attracted a lot of media interest and heightened expectations. Nevertheless, there is a lack of empirical work that sheds light on the commitment to …
Is there a place for employee-driven pro-environmental innovations? The case of public organizations
Employee-driven pro-environmental innovations improve the performance of public organizations and contribute to social well-being. Nevertheless, the factors that impede the emergence of such innovations remain unclear. To shed light on why some employee-driven innovations succeed while others fail, 33 semi-structured interviews with public sector managers and sustainability advisors were conducted. The analysis of individual, organizational, and …
Organizational Learning for Environmental Sustainability
Implementing a substantial environmental strategy that addresses all phases of the product lifecycle is a complex and demanding challenge that most organizations fail to convincingly overcome. Based on a case study of five frontrunner companies located in Italy and Norway, this study explores the factors that promote, or hinder, the learning process underlying the implementation of substantial measures for lifecycle management and how this can co…
Through the Smokescreen of the Dieselgate Disclosure
This article analyzes the main neutralization techniques used in car manufacturers’ sustainability reports to disclose on the Dieselgate scandal. We conduct a conventional qualitative content analysis of 72 sustainability reports, covering the period 2013-2017, from 15 car manufacturers that were accused of unethical behaviors related to the measurement of diesel vehicle pollutant emissions. We then present a framework based on four configuration…
Sustainability management and social license to operate in the extractive industry
This study aims to analyze the role of cross‐cultural differences between Indigenous communities and extractive organizations with regard to the sustainability measures these organizations employ. Although Indigenous communities are important stakeholders, especially in remote areas where extractive organizations are mainly located, these organizations' relationships with Indigenous communities have been overlooked in the literature on sustainabi…
Sustainable development and stakeholder engagement in the agri‐food sector
Organizations across various industries engage in biodiversity conservation as a way to achieve sustainable development and to manage stakeholder engagement expectations. Although the importance of information and communication technology to promote biodiversity conservation has been recognized, little attention has been devoted to shedding more light on corporate practices in this area. This study explores how organizations do use information te…
The Measurement of Green Workplace Behaviors
The literature on the green behaviors adopted by individuals in workplace settings has grown significantly over the past decade. Many studies have examined the factors associated with individual actions. However, the comparability of the studies conducted on the subject is a common concern, mainly because of the wide range of measurement tools based on different sets of items used in such research. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine…
Exploring bluewashing practices of alleged sustainability leaders through a counter-accounting analysis
Pro-environmental behaviors through the lens of the theory of planned behavior
La norme ISO 45001 et les controverses autour de la régulation transnationale privée de la sécurité et de la santé au travail
Les auteurs analysent la genèse de la norme ISO 45001 sur la sécurité et la santé au travail, une initiative de régulation transnationale privée. Ils décrivent les controverses qui ont surgi à cette occasion, en se fondant sur des entretiens avec des personnes associées à l'élaboration, l'approbation et la diffusion initiale du texte, ainsi que sur une analyse qualitative des documents internes au comité chargé de sa finalisation. À l'instar de n…
Integrating sustainable nutrition into health-related institutions
Greening the Corporation Through Organizational Citizenship Behaviors
Improving environmental management through indigenous peoples’ involvement
Sustainability management and social license to operate in the extractive industry
This study aims to analyze the role of cross‐cultural differences between Indigenous communities and extractive organizations with regard to the sustainability measures these organizations employ. Although Indigenous communities are important stakeholders, especially in remote areas where extractive organizations are mainly located, these organizations' relationships with Indigenous communities have been overlooked in the literature on sustainabi…
Sustainable development and stakeholder engagement in the agri‐food sector
Organizations across various industries engage in biodiversity conservation as a way to achieve sustainable development and to manage stakeholder engagement expectations. Although the importance of information and communication technology to promote biodiversity conservation has been recognized, little attention has been devoted to shedding more light on corporate practices in this area. This study explores how organizations do use information te…
Exploring bluewashing practices of alleged sustainability leaders through a counter-accounting analysis
Circular economy at the company level
Circular economy (CE) has attracted both media and academic interest. However, there is a lack of empirical work that clarifies the specific activities involved in CE at the firm level. To fill this gap, this article offers an analysis of how firms disclose information about their activities associated with CE, based on an extensive worldwide dataset of sustainability reports from 1367 companies. The findings point to a rather limited, superficia…
Promoting local food products for sustainability
The number of practices promoting local food have been rapidly growing in recent years, mainly in response to the increasing interest from consumers and their sustainability benefits. The objective of this scoping review is to present a taxonomy of the most promising promotion practices in this domain. A targeted search within a database specialized in storing newspaper articles resulted in the identification of 78 documents that were published p…
Failure to consider environmental risk
Best practices for corporate commitment to biodiversity
Corporate Greening Through ISO 14001
The process used by organizations to integrate the ISO 14001 standard has not yet been the subject of extensive research in environmental management despite the rapid development of this standard, particularly in industrial companies. The results of a case study conducted among nine ISO 14001 certified Canadian organizations showed that adopting this standard tends to lead to a ceremonial behaviour intended to superficially show that the certifie…
Greening the Corporation Through Organizational Citizenship Behaviors
Organizational Citizenship Behaviour for the Environment
Sustainability reports as simulacra? A counter-account of A and A+ GRI reports
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which sustainability reporting can be viewed as a simulacrum used to camouflage real sustainable-development problems and project an idealized view of the firms' situations. Design/methodology/approach – The method was based on the content analysis and counter accounting of 23 sustainability reports from firms in the energy and mining sectors which had received application levels of …
The Impact of Human Resource Management on Environmental Performance
Legitimizing Corporate (Un) Sustainability
The objective of this article is to explore how decision makers in small- and medium-sized enterprises explain their lack of commitment to sustainability through various justifications. These justifications are intended to rationalize and legitimize, through socially acceptable arguments, the absence of substantial actions in this area. A case study based on 33 interviews in nine Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises showed that managers r…
Best practices for corporate commitment to biodiversity
Le secteur de l’aluminium en quête de légitimité et d’influence
Au début des années 2000, le Gouvernement du Québec a négocié avec les acteurs du secteur de l’aluminium des ententes volontaires de réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GES). Pour les autorités gouvernementales, ces accords permettent généralement de pallier le vide institutionnel en la matière. Cependant les raisons qui motivent la participation des entreprises sont plus complexes à interpréter. À partir de deux études de cas menées…
Adopting ISO Management Standards in Africa
Overcoming the barriers to pro-environmental behaviors in the workplace
Internalization of Environmental Practices and Institutional Complexity
Improving environmental management through indigenous peoples’ involvement
Pro-environmental behaviors through the lens of the theory of planned behavior
La norme ISO 45001 et les controverses autour de la régulation transnationale privée de la sécurité et de la santé au travail
Les auteurs analysent la genèse de la norme ISO 45001 sur la sécurité et la santé au travail, une initiative de régulation transnationale privée. Ils décrivent les controverses qui ont surgi à cette occasion, en se fondant sur des entretiens avec des personnes associées à l'élaboration, l'approbation et la diffusion initiale du texte, ainsi que sur une analyse qualitative des documents internes au comité chargé de sa finalisation. À l'instar de n…
Integrating sustainable nutrition into health-related institutions
The Measurement of Green Workplace Behaviors
The literature on the green behaviors adopted by individuals in workplace settings has grown significantly over the past decade. Many studies have examined the factors associated with individual actions. However, the comparability of the studies conducted on the subject is a common concern, mainly because of the wide range of measurement tools based on different sets of items used in such research. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine…
Exploring bluewashing practices of alleged sustainability leaders through a counter-accounting analysis
Organizations' engagement with sustainable development goals
This article analyzes the organizational engagement with the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs), an initiative for corporate social responsibility also referred to as the 2030 Agenda. Engagement with the SDGs by organizations all around the world, whatever their sector and size, has attracted a lot of media interest and heightened expectations. Nevertheless, there is a lack of empirical work that sheds light on the commitment to …
Is there a place for employee-driven pro-environmental innovations? The case of public organizations
Employee-driven pro-environmental innovations improve the performance of public organizations and contribute to social well-being. Nevertheless, the factors that impede the emergence of such innovations remain unclear. To shed light on why some employee-driven innovations succeed while others fail, 33 semi-structured interviews with public sector managers and sustainability advisors were conducted. The analysis of individual, organizational, and …
Organizational Learning for Environmental Sustainability
Implementing a substantial environmental strategy that addresses all phases of the product lifecycle is a complex and demanding challenge that most organizations fail to convincingly overcome. Based on a case study of five frontrunner companies located in Italy and Norway, this study explores the factors that promote, or hinder, the learning process underlying the implementation of substantial measures for lifecycle management and how this can co…
Through the Smokescreen of the Dieselgate Disclosure
This article analyzes the main neutralization techniques used in car manufacturers’ sustainability reports to disclose on the Dieselgate scandal. We conduct a conventional qualitative content analysis of 72 sustainability reports, covering the period 2013-2017, from 15 car manufacturers that were accused of unethical behaviors related to the measurement of diesel vehicle pollutant emissions. We then present a framework based on four configuration…
Sustainability management and social license to operate in the extractive industry
This study aims to analyze the role of cross‐cultural differences between Indigenous communities and extractive organizations with regard to the sustainability measures these organizations employ. Although Indigenous communities are important stakeholders, especially in remote areas where extractive organizations are mainly located, these organizations' relationships with Indigenous communities have been overlooked in the literature on sustainabi…
Sustainable development and stakeholder engagement in the agri‐food sector
Organizations across various industries engage in biodiversity conservation as a way to achieve sustainable development and to manage stakeholder engagement expectations. Although the importance of information and communication technology to promote biodiversity conservation has been recognized, little attention has been devoted to shedding more light on corporate practices in this area. This study explores how organizations do use information te…
Integrating recommendations from sustainability performance audits
This study explores how government organizations integrate audit recommendations and justify decoupling auditees’ commitments from organizational realities. Moreover, it examines the analysis of recommendations from 31 sustainability performance audits conducted in 20 Canadian public organizations over 12 years. The longitudinal approach adopted in this study revealed decoupling strategies in most audited organizations and a tendency to perpetuat…
Responsible sourcing in the food industry
Business (24 works) · Political science (21 works) · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (19 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (19 works) · Sustainability (16 works) · Public relations (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Environmental resource management (10 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Sustainable Supply Chain Management (9 works)