Research

For almost 15 years, Montpellier Business School has been furthering a dynamic research policy which has resulted in a constant effort to recruit the best researchers at national and international level. More than 55 teacher-researchers have been recruited over the past 15 years.

The number of publications in peer-reviewed journals referenced in the National Center for Scientific Research list (~800 titles) has logically increased both in quantity and quality in recent years following our faculty member’s voluntary rise in competence, maturation, internationalisation and reinforcement by numerous recent recruitments. Our teacher-researchers have published in peer-reviewed journals such as (but not limited to):
Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control; Human Resource Management; Nature; Science; Management Science; European Journal of Operational Research; Review of Finance; Journal of Comparative Economics; Economic Theory; Human Relations; Journal of Management Studies, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Our research activities cover all traditional areas of management research. Research activities are based on the work of permanent teacher-researchers, who are themselves affiliated to the MRM laboratory (Montpellier Recherche en Management “Montpellier Research in Management”). Montpellier Business School’s teacher-researchers are also part of the LabEx Entreprendre. This LabEx is the only laboratory which is specialised on this topic in France, within the framework of the call for projects of the “Investments for the Future”.

Our researchers play an important role in editorial activities and in the organisation of annual conferences such as the Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) and the International Finance Conference (IFC). In November 2017, Montpellier Business School has also organised its first International Conference on Energy, Finance and the Macroeconomics “Conférence Internationale sur l’Energie, la Finance et la Macroéconomie” (ICEFM).

Montpellier Business School also organises research seminars every 15 days around three axes: methodology, presentation of working papers and presentations of external teacher-researchers. The first months programme is presented below :

Dates	Speakers	Institutions	Types of seminar	Titles
18 October	Pavlo Blavatskyy, Meena andiappan, Katerine Gundolf, Frank Lasch	Montpellier Business School	Methodology	Sharing experience on applying for funding opportunities
2 November	Aliaa El Shoubaki	Montpellier Business School	Work in progress	Life-partner support and growth of female-led firms
16 November	Rameshwar Dubey	Montpellier Business School	Methodology	How to “Build Theories Using Graph Theoretic Approach”
30 November	Wojciech Czakon	University of Economics in Katowice, Poland	External scholar	Coopetition mindset: empirical investigation into the microfoundations of coopetition strategy
14 December	Frank Lash	Montpellier Business School	Work in progress	The second life of an article
11 January	Arash Aloosh	Neoma Business School	External scholar	Presentation of his paper on digital currencies
8 February	Bart Vangerven	KU Leuven & Ugent	External scholar	Combinatorial auctions: coordination and threshold problems
22 February	Sebastien Duchene	Université Côte d’Azur	External scholar	Présentation du projet BEAM, Behavioral and Experimental Analyses in Macro-finance
8 March	Sandra Dow	Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA	External scholar	Institutional Investors: Striking the Balance with Dominant Owners
29 March	Roy Thurik	Montpellier Business School	Methodology	How to set up a research programme: the case of Entrepreneurship and psychomarkers
5 April	Calin Gurau	Montpellier Business School	Methodology	How to publish in peer-reviewed journals
11 April	Sebastiano Delre	Montpellier Business School	Methodology	Does Quality Win? Using an Empirically Validated ABM to Study the Drivers of Market Inefficiency in the Motion Picture Market
18 April	Paul A David	Stanford University, USA	External scholar	Rethinking Economic Policy Designs for Near-term Climate Stabilization and Sustainable Growth in the Anthropocene
3 May	Mark Sanders	Utrecht University School of Economics, Netherlands	External scholar	FIRES and IRIS: Expériences in applying for Horizon 2020 funding
15 May	Philippe Villemus	Montpellier Business School		Presentation of his book « Le leadership selon la trilogie de l’anneau »
16 May	Charles Cho	York University, Canada	External scholar	Dos and Donts of publication in PRJs