RIODD 2025: Navigating Conflicts and Convergences

The International Research Network on Organizations and Sustainable Development (RIODD) will hold its 20th congress intitled "Navigating Conflicts and Convergences: Unraveling the Dynamics of Social Acceptability in Socio-Environmental Transitions" in Toulouse from October 8 to 10, 2025. This edition will focus on the description and analysis of organizational modes that facilitate or block socio-environmental transitions in order to identify levers for action, by questioning the notion of social acceptability. 

It invites participants to address these questions through a diversity of approaches (theoretical and conceptual approaches as well as qualitative and/or quantitative empirical work) and in a plurality of perspectives (from the angle of actors promoting changes as well as those opposing them) and scientific disciplines. 

Particular attention will be paid to ongoing experiments where involved actors put social acceptability to work and seek original and innovative ways of doing things.

This congress thus invites a broad approach to phenomena, also taking into account the evolution of the geopolitical context, the multiplication of armed conflicts, the questioning of the rule of law, the polarization of our societies, the growing vulnerability of certain populations, in short, what makes us collectively accept the unacceptable. While the subject is of great topicality in Europe, the examination of historical cases and international comparisons will provide valuable insights.

The 20th edition is organised in partnership with the University of Toulouse Capitole and the University of Toulouse. The congress will be held on the premises of the University of Toulouse Capitole:

University of Toulouse Capitole
2 rue du Doyen Gabriel Marty
31 042 Toulouse Cedex 9