Montpellier Business School

Dr. Staessens Matthias

Staessens Matthias
Fonction Assistant Professor
Teaching department Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Technology, Innovation, Management
Contact

Mail: m.staessens@montpellier-bs.com

Short Bio

Dr. Matthias Staessens joined Montpellier Business School in 2022 as an assistant Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at department Management, Entrepreneurship & Strategy. He holds a PhD in Business Economics (KU Leuven, 2019). His research interests cover decision-making and performance of hybrid organisations, in particular cooperatives and social enterprises. Specifically, his work takes a behavioral and upper echelon perspective to understand how cooperatives and social enterprises manage the social-business tension within their organisation. His work has been published in Journal of Business Ethics, Academy of Management Perspective and Strategic Change.

Selected intellectual contributions

Billiet A., Dufays F., Friedel S. & Staessens M. 2021. The resilience of the cooperative model: How do cooperatives deal with Covid-19? Strategic Change.

Bruneel J., Clarysse B., Staessens M. & Weemaes S. 2020. Breaking with the past: The need for innovation in the governance of nonprofit social enterprises. Academy of Management Perspectives.

Staessens M., Kerstens P.J., Bruneel J. & Cherchye L. 2019. Data envelopment analysis and social enterprises: Analysing performance, strategic orientation and mission drift. Journal of Business Ethics, 159 (2): 325-341.

Teaching

2022-2023: Green Innovation Management
2022-2023: Corporate Entrepreneurship
2021-2022 : Cooperative and social Entrepreneurship, KU Leuven.
2021-2022: Writing Effective Business Plans, IESEG.
2018-2019: Regional Innovation Systems, KU Leuven.

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