Sustainable Production System

2Information Structures Production

2.1. The value chain: an outdated representation

In a social and ecological economy of sustainable development, linkages – whether between individuals and communities or between physical elements and ecosystem functions – precede the economic good. These links are necessarily objectified at the scale of a territory, which is not very compatible with the attribution of an added value to the activity of a single institutional entity. Indeed, beyond the value of a productive phenomenon, which can only be understood in a limited way at the entity level, it is necessary to take into account the effects exerted on that entity by the activities of other entities in the territory with which it is functionally linked.

Addressing the valuation of productive phenomena then implies opening a path of theoretical and practical coexistence between neoclassical and socioeconomic approaches to valuation.

One way to do this is to return to the ontology of work that we have just described and, from this perspective, to consider that some financial work products are not financial. Financial work, as part of plural work, influences economic work that selects productions with which an exchange value can be associated. Through this selection, it excludes or supports physical and digital productions which, because they are based in territories of ecological, social and economic production, influence the plural work that takes place there and makes these productions ...