Titre : Does the French Plan of Transition to a Circular Economy Institutionalize a Concept? A Transversal Analysis of Discourse. Auteurs : Anne-Claire Savy, Malick N’Diaye, Myriam-Emilie Kessari, Revue : Technology and Innovation Numéro : L’économie circulaire : innovations avenir
Volume : 4 Date : 2019/03/11 DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2019.0341 ISSN : 2399-8571 Résumé : This article, based on the theory of the social construction of reality, aims to understand if the construction of the plan of transition towards the circular economy (dispositif de transition vers l’économie circulaire – DTEC) induces, in France, the institutionalization of a concept. The emerging concept of the circular economy (économie circulaire – EC) is situated in the context of debates on taking into account the impact of economic activity on nature (l’impact de l’activité économique sur la nature – IAEN). A corpus of French texts, participating in the DTEC since 2008, is the subject of a transversal contextualized analysis of discourse. The results show a diversified institutional job, in the theorization phase, without a common conceptualization of EC but converging on the need for a regulated territorial waste management policy. The institutionalization process is then discussed with the institutional change model. The interactions between institutional pressures to take the IAEN into account introduce the prospect of societal institutional change. Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience