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Report n°2: An integrated approach to economic and social contestability in business

Table of contents

• Author's short biographies
• Preface by Denis Gasquet
• Introduction
• The contestability of an economic operator: a multi-dimensional strategic variable
  • Between economic contestability and social contestability
  • The interplay of economic and social contestability in a branch of scrap metal recycling
    • Economic contestability in a recycling branch of activity
    • Social contestation of a recycling operator on environmental or safety grounds
    • Forms and dynamics of contestability management in a recycling branch
• Exchange of batches of scrap metal under the constraint of defection, local challenging vigilance and Nimby
  • The metal recycling industry: a brief overview
    • The scrap metal recycler
    • Upstream and downstream of the branch
  • Economic contestability of the recycler: inputs market and local assets
    • A potential market with close proximity to resources...
    • ... and a variable degree of openness
    • Threats weighing on access to the resources
  • Economic contestability of the recycler: intangible assets and expertise differential
    • Informational aspects of transactions regarding scrap metal batches
    • The recycler's credibility and the collector's efforts
    • When the envisioned solution is not a solution: transparency through expertise transfer
    • The recycler's dilemma overcome by creating an intangible asset: a reputation network
  • Elements for diagnosing the contestability of the historic operator
    • Forms of contestability identified
  • Intermediate conclusion on the link between economic contestability and social contestability
• Downstream trading of recycled material: the impact of location and quality uncertainty
  • Location and the downstream market
  • Exhanges with the downstream market
  • Intermediate conclusion based on an analysis of the downstream market
• Social contestability: acquiring experience and defining a coverage strategy
  • Learning about contestation: challenging a business because of its waste products
  • Reporting unconfirmed scientific facts
  • Intermediate conclusion: lessons from an experience of contestation
• The dynamic of economic and social contestability applied to metal recycling
  • Opening access to sources of supply and the operator's economic contestability
    • Restricting access to sources of supply using an intangible asset
    • A restriction of access to networks
    • Regulation issues for the productive asset
    • Internal economic contestation
  • Conditions favourable for a social contestation to a business activity
    • Acquiring an ideal location and exposure to challenging vigilance
    • The threat of contestation through defection in the context of social opposition to the business activity
  • Managing the risk of social contestation by anticipating it
    • Anticipating risks to the community is a rational business choice
    • Anticipating social contestation and the lever effect
• Conclusion
• Bibliography

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