Business Legitimacy, Agricultural Biodiversity, and Environmental Ethics: Insights from Sustainable Bakeries

Torelli, Riccardo; Balluchi, Federica

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68845-9_119-1

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“…Regarding the agrifood industry, this study focuses on the bread and bread derivatives sector because it represents basic food products purchased and consumed by almost everyone in industrialized countries. The bakery industry (in its most natural and sustainable form) is also particularly interesting because it is represented by a short supply chain, with only one intermediate step between the producer of the raw material (flour) and the consumer, that is, the baker (Torelli and Balluchi, 2020).…”

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Biodiversity management approaches in small and innovative businesses: insights from asystems thinkingperspective

Torelli

Balluchi

2022

SRJ

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Purpose Amid the current global crisis, biodiversity remains a topic that is often relegated to a few disciplines. Many issues related to the relationship between organizations and the ecosystem remain unexplored. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the characteristics of the interrelationship between these two complex and dynamic systems. Design/methodology/approach This research is conducted using a constructivist approach, with an interpretivist perspective and a case study methodology. Through this research perspective and an exploratory multiple case study (holistic), the authors assess the implications related to the concept of biodiversity and the impacts that organizational choices could have on the consideration and management of this complex concept. Findings The desire of these entrepreneurs to change their ways of doing things and try to produce in a way that respects the ecosystem and enhances natural genetic diversity, while simultaneously drawing value from it in a healthy and sustainable manner, is evident. The orientation toward a sustainable and ecologically innovative business brings the concept of profit into the background on several occasions, leading these bakery entrepreneurs to be visionary green entrepreneurs (or ecopreneurs). The desire to be sustainable and to change the ways of “business as usual” makes these companies and their entrepreneurs an example of “sustainability-as-flourishing.” Originality/value By adopting the systems thinking approach and multiple case studies, this study examines the interrelation between some innovative small companies (bakeries) and biodiversity, their motivations to actively engage in biodiversity protection and their roles in protecting agrobiodiversity as well as the natural wealth of the ecosystem.

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