Research groups and chairs

Presentation

Formed in February 2018 through the collaboration between Créa-Sol and Montpellier Business School (MBS), the Chair Microfinance in Developed Countries strives to promote research, training and exchange of good practices linked to Microfinance in developed countries.

The Chair is intended to be open to other partners. To find out more about the Chair’s activities or how to join it, please contact its Director, Dr Anastasia Cozarenco (a.cozarenco@montpellier-bs.com).

For more information, please visit the website dedicated to this Chair.

Research

The purpose of the Chair is to conduct research on two major topic areas:

• the study and improvement of the business models of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Europe and particularly in France;
• the development of relevant social performance indicators.

The holder
Dr Anastasia COZARENCO

Examples of intellectual contributions

– Academic paper: “Motivation Entrepreneuriale et Performance de Microentreprises : Le cas d’une Institution de Microfinance Française” (“Entrepreneurial Motivation and Microenterprise Performance: the case of a French Microfinance Institution”). Summary in French available here : Entrepreneurial motivation / Full article in English available here.

Presentation

The Chair in Social Entrepreneurship & Inclusion was created in March 2019. It federates an ecosystem of firms, professors, associations and students. The aim of this Chair is to support the creation of sustainable social enterprises through education, research activities as well as concrete actions in our territory. The Chair in Social Entrepreneurship & Inclusion also attempts to support unemployed people to contribute to a more inclusive economy.

Thanks to our partners: A.f.e; AG2R La Mondiale; Face Hérault; Realis; Google ateliers numériques.

For more information, please visit the webpage dedicated to this Chair.

The holder

Dr Walid Nakara

Members

Dr. Alain Fayolle
EM Lyon, FR

Dr. Diana M. Hechavarria
University of South Florida, US

Dr. Helen Etchanchu
Montpellier Business School, FR

Dr. Frank Janssen
Louvain School of Management, BE

Dr. Annabelle Jaouen
Montpellier Business School, FR

Dr. Emilie Fortin- Lefebvre
Université du Québec, CA

Pr. Brigitte Hoogendoorn

Erasmus School of Economics, NL

Pr. Vanessa Ratten

La Trobe University, AUS

Presentation

The Pégase Chair is the first French chair dedicated to the economics and management of air transport and aerospace. Its ambition is to strengthen ties between academia and businesses in the aviation and aerospace sectors.

The activities of the Chair revolve around 3 axes:

• Monitoring and scientific research activities to create new knowledge
• Educational activities to train the managers of tomorrow
• Orientation and animation activities of the alumni network in the aviation and aerospace sectors

The Pégase Chair brings together around twenty researchers who devote part of their research to the issues of air transport and aerospace. The members of the Chair come from Montpellier Business School, the University of Montpellier as well as other French and international institutions with which we collaborate regularly.

For more information, do not hesitate to consult the website dedicated to the Chair (in French).

The holder

Dr Paul Chiambaretto.

Brief presentation

Entrepreneurship research has investigated and generally well-documented the determinants of outcomes of new firm formation (survival and growth). But so far, little distinction is made between different entry modes. An emerging line of thinking shows that starting a new firm from scratch and taking over an existing firm are two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes.

The research group is a joint effort of Montpellier Business School (Frank Lasch, Frank Robert, Roy Thurik) and the University of Trier in Germany (Jörn Block, Guoqian Xi).

Examples of current work

• Work experience from paid employment and the path to entrepreneurship: business takeover versus new venture start-up
  Mode of entry into hybrid entrepreneurship: new venture start-up versus business takeover

  How does firm survival differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups?

Examples of communications

• Xi G., Block J., Lasch F., Robert F. & Thurik R. 2016. Work experience from paid employment and the path to entrepreneurship: business takeover versus new venture start-up. G-Forum/ Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, October 6-7, Leipzig, Germany.
• Block J., Lasch F., Robert F., Thurik R. & XI G. 2015. Human capital and success in entrepreneurship: new venture start versus business takeover. Economics of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, June 2-3, Trier, Germany.

Example of publications

• Xi G., Block J., Lasch F., Robert F. & Thurik R. 2020. The survival of business takeovers and new venture start-ups. Industrial and Corporate Change, 29(3): 797-826.
• Xi G., Block J., Lasch F., Robert F. & Thurik R. 2018. Mode of entry into hybrid entrepreneurship: new venture start-up versus business takeover. International Review of Entrepreneurship, 16(2): 217-240.
• Xi G., Block J., Lasch F., Robert F. & Thurik R. 2018. Work experience from paid employment and the path to entrepreneurship: business takeover versus new venture start-up. Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat, 17(2): 91-112.
• Block J., Thurik R., van der Zwan P. & Walter S. 2013. Business takeover or new venture? Individual and environmental determinants from a cross-country study. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 37(5), 1099-1121.

Members

• Dr Frank Lasch,
• Dr Roy Thurik
• Dr Frank Robert
• Dr Aliaa El Shoubaki (University of Economics, Prague)

Contact
Dr Frank Lasch

Brief presentation

The issue of entrepreneurship outcomes is a well-established theme in entrepreneurship research using different levels of analysis (the entrepreneur, the firm, and the region) and investigating in a variety of determinants such as founder demographics, human capital and education, social capital, work and entrepreneurship specific experience, organization-related factors, start-up preparation, etc. But entrepreneurship support and economic policy in Europe still face the problem that most new firms start small, remain small or close down without generating desired employment effects.

The research group takes into account the diversity of industries and entrepreneurs in investigating new firm survival and firm growth.

Examples of current work

• ICT venture survival and growth
• Types of entrepreneurs and propensity of survival
• Growth determinants across firm size

Selected presentations/missions

• El Shoubaki A., Stephan M., Lasch F. & Werner A. 2018. Life-partners employment type and the well-being of entrepreneurs. Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research IECER, September 26-28, Innsbruck, Austria.
• El Shoubaki A., Cozarenco A. & Lasch F. 2018. Entrepreneurial teams and the growth of young firms. Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research IECER, September 26-28, Innsbruck, Austria.
• El Shoubaki A., Block J. & Lasch F. 2017. Copreneurship: A systematic review. Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research IECER, September 20-22, Siegen, Germany.
• El Shoubaki A., Cozarenco A., Lasch F. & Dana L.-P. 2017. Spouses of female entrepreneurs: Lubricant or Brakes? Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference BCERC, June 7-11, Oklahoma, USA.
• El Shoubaki A., Cozarenco A., Lasch F. & Dana L.-P. 2017. Life-partner support and growth of female-led firms. Entrepreneurship Research: Past, Present & Future, May 10-12, Paris School of Business, France. [Best paper award]
• El Shoubaki A., Block J. & Lasch F. 2017. A systematic review of copreneurship. Workshop Entrepreneurship Future, May 10-12, Paris, France.

Examples of publications :

• El Shoubaki A., Laguir I. & Den Besten M. 2019. Human capital and SME growth: The mediating role of reasons to start a business. Small Business Economics, 1-5.
• El Shoubaki A, Cozarenco A., Lasch F. & Dana L.-P. 2017. Spouses of female entrepreneurs: Lubricant or brakes? Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 37(7): 179-180.
• Robert F., El Shoubaki A., Lasch F. & Dana L.-P. 2017. Linking types of ICT entrepreneurs to new firm survival. International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Small Business, 30(1): 110-146.
• Gurău C., Dana L.-P. & Lasch F. 2010. Human capital for successful entrepreneurial ventures: the profile of the top management team (TMT) in UK biopharmaceutical SMEs. International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Small Business, 11(4): 436-454.
• Lasch F., Le Roy F. & Yami S. 2007. Critical growth factors of ICT start-ups. Management Decision, 45(1): 62-75.

Members 

• Dr Frank Lasch
• Dr Frank Robert
• Dr Calin Gurău
• Dr Aliaa El Shoubaki (University of Economics, Prague)

Contact
Dr Frank Lasch

Presentation

Trust is usually considered to be crucial in inter-organizational and interpersonal long-lasting relations. Research on SMEs underline the overlapping of social and economic relations. In this research group, the work focuses on the forms, objectives and modalities of relationships in SMEs, whether internal or external, at the level of individuals or organizations.

Examples of current work  

• interpersonal relationships in small businesses
• paradox management
• coopetition
• collective strategies
• bricolage
• trust

   

Examples of publications (selected) 

• Kessari M., Joly C., Jaouen A., Jaeck M. 2020. Alternative food networks: good practices for sustainable performance. Journal of Marketing Management. A paraitre.
• Jaouen A., Jaeck M., Joly C., Kessari M. 2020. Les magasins de producteurs : vers un renouveau de l’action collective des PME agricoles. Revue Internationale PME. A paraitre.
• Rouher L., Jaouen A., Jaeck M., Joly C., Kessari M. 2020. Vendre ses produits en direct et en collectif dans un magasin de producteurs : adopter un projet collectif correspondant aux fermes, adapter les fermes au projet. Innovations Agronomiques, 79, 455-469.
• Granata J., Lasch F., Le Roy F. & Dana L. (forthcoming). How do micro-firms manage coopetition? International Small Business Journal.
• Barlette Y. & Jaouen A. 2019. Information Security in SMEs: determinants of CEOs’ protective and supportive behaviors. Systèmes d’Information et Management, 24(3), 7-40.
• Nakara W., Jaouen A., Gabarret I., Vedel B. & D’Andria A. 2019. Examining the startup phase of an incubator from a bricolage perspective, Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat, 17(3-4), 103-138
• Gundolf K., Jaouen A. & Gast J. 2018. Motives for strategic alliances in cultural and creative industries. Creativity and Innovation Management Journal, 27(2), 148-160.
• Granata J., Géraudel M., Nicolosi A. & Garcia K. 2017. Understanding the evolution of coopetition among SMEs in a wine cluster: A social capital approach, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 67-84.
• Granata J., Da Fonseca M-C., Marquès P. & Géraudel M. 2016. Dynamique d’évolution d’une stratégie collective entre PME : le cas des vignerons du Pic Saint-Loup, Management International, Vol. 20, N°2, pp. 163-177.
• Gundolf K.,  Jaouen A. & Missonier A. 2012. Une entreprise mature décide d’accompagner une jeune entreprise potentiellement concurrente : Quelles motivations et conditions d’émergence ? Revue Sciences de Gestion, 254: 69-79.
• Gundolf K.,  Meier O. & Missonier A. 2012. Mergers between size-unequal partners: Strategic Risks and Hurdles. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 19 (2): 281 – 299.
• Jaouen A. & Lasch F. 2015. A new typology of micro-firm owner-managers. International Small Business Journal, 334: 397-421.
• Jaouen A. & Nakara W.A. 2014. Les systèmes d’information en micro-firme: une approche par le bricolage organisationnel. Revue Internationale PME, 273-4: 225-260.

Members 

• Dr Johanna Gast
• Dr Julien Granata
• Dr Annabelle Jaouen
• Dr Audrey Missonier
• Dr Walid Nakara

Contact

• Dr Annabelle Jaouen

Brief presentation

Entrepreneurs/self-entrepreneurs, senior and top managers are the drivers of entrepreneurial orientation and business growth. They have long been considered to possess better mental health than their employees. However, this distinction remains little explored. Several studies have been conducted on the mental health of employees, but little is known about the health of entrepreneurs/self-entrepreneurs and executives. Few empirical studies interested in their health and job performance. Examining their psychological and personality traits – such as affect, self-efficacy, personality traits (the 5 big traits), mindfulness, impulsivity and the Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) – could thus prove useful for better understanding their behavior. Thus, studying “bright and dark sides” of these traits could help to better understanding how to counteract their effects on stress/technostress and burnout at work. The list of psychological and personality traits is not exhaustive. Any research on this issue is welcome.
The research carried out by this group addresses these problems and is based on teacher-researchers from Montpellier Business School and other partner universities.
The research group on “health, Entrepreneurship and Psychological Markers” deals with these issues and represents a pooling of skills between researchers from Montpellier Business School and other partner schools.

Examples of current work

• Stress/Technostress/burnout
• Positive/negative affect
• Mindfulness
• Personality traits
• Entrepreneurial success
• Entrepreneurial orientation

Examples of communications

• Benzari, A., Khedhaouria, A., & Torrès, O. 2020. The Rise of Technostress: A Literature Review from 1984 until 2018. In Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). An Online AIS Conference, June 15-17, Morocco.
• Benzari A., Torres O., Khedhaouria A., & Cucchi A. 2019. The impact of technostress on burnout of small business owners. 11ème congrès de l’Académie de l’Entrepreneuriat et de l’Innovation. June 3-5, Montpellier.
• Cesinger B., Gundolf K., Hughes M. & Khedhaouira A. 2018. Bright and dark sides of the dark triad: Managers personality traits and organizational commitment. Cognitive Perspective in Entrepreneurship Research-Past, Present and Future, September 23-24, Paris.
• Bernoster I., Khedhaouria A. & Thurik R. 2017. The association between positive affect and entrepreneurial success. Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research IECER, September 20-21, Siegen, Deutschland.
• Bernoster I., Khedhaouria A. & Thurik R. 2016. Affect, aspects of the entrepreneurial process, and entrepreneurial success. International Workshop on Health of Small Business Owners & Entrepreneurs, September 29-30, Montpellier, France.

Examples of publications

• Montani F., Vandenberghe C., Khedhaouria A., & Courcy F. 2020. Examining the inverted u-shaped relationship between workload and innovative work behavior: The role of work engagement and mindfulness. Human Relations, 73, 59-93. [Top 50 Journals de la Financial Times; FNEGE: 1; CNRS: 2]
• Khedhaouria A., & Cucchi A. 2019. Technostress creators, personality traits, and job burnout: A fuzzy-set configurational analysis. Journal of Business Research, 101, 346-361 [FNEGE: 2; CNRS: 2]
• Bernoster I., Khedhaouria A., & Thurik R. 2018. Positive affect, the entrepreneurial process, and the entrepreneurial success of sole proprietors. M@n@gement, 22, 273-296. [FNEGE: 2; CNRS: 2]
• Chollet, B., Géraudel, M., Khedhaouria, A., & Mothe C. 2016. Market knowledge as a function of CEOs’ personality: A fuzzy set approach. Journal of Business Research, 69, 2567–2573. [FNEGE: 2; CNRS: 2]
• Khedhaouria A., Gurău C., Torrès O. 2015. Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation. Small Business Economics, 44, 485–504. [FNEGE: 2; CNRS: 2]

Members 

• Dr Anis Khedhaouria
• Dr Roy Thurik
• Dr Olivier Torrès
• Dr Calin Gurău
• Dr Katherine Gundolf
• Dr Walid Nakara
• Ph.D Student Alexandre Benzari

Contact
Dr Anis Khedhaouria

Brief presentation

This group conducts research at the intersection of technology and innovation management. Innovation is now considered a top priority by CEOs. At the same time, information technology (IT) has come to bear a critical role in all aspects of innovation -from product-service innovation to business model innovation to management innovation. Our goal is to develop theories, empirical studies, design experiments and propose guidelines to inform the role of IT in innovation.

The research group is a joint effort of Montpellier Business School and the following international collaborators Bill McKelvey (UCLA and Kedge Business School), Dorothy Leidner (Baylor University), and Tanya Menon (Fisher College of Business)..

Examples of communications

• Cheruy C. & Belbaly N. 2017. Crowdsourcing a problem: how to search for optimized ideas. Association Information et Management AIM, May 17-19, Paris, France.
• Yan K., Leidner D. & Benbya H. 2016. User-generated content and employee creativity: Evidence from salesforce idea exchange community. International Conference on Information Systems ICIS, December 10-12, Dublin, Ireland.
• Benbya H. & Leidner D. 2016. Harnessing employee innovation in internal crowdsourcing platforms: Lessons from Allianz UK. International Conference on Information Systems ICIS, December 10-12, Dublin, Ireland.
• Belbaly N., El Mezouaghi R. & Gurau C. 2016. Factors influencing the quality of open ideas: Open innovation, networks and interlocking ties. R&D Management Conference, July 3-6, Cambridge, UK.

Examples of publications

• Benbya, H. and Leidner, D. 2018. How Allianz UK used an idea management platform to harness employee innovation Allianz UK. MIS Quarterly Executive, 17(2), PP. 139-155.
• Yan, K. Leidner, D. & Benbya, H. 2018. “Differential Innovativeness Outcomes of User and Employee Participation in Online User Innovation Communities”, Journal of Management Information Systems, 35(3), PP. 1-34.  
• Autcharaporn S. & Belbaly N. Forthcoming. Managerial creativity: The roles of dynamic capabilities and risk preferences. European Management Review.
• Benbya H. 2016. Mechanisms for knowledge transfer in the context of knowledge platforms: A governance perspective. Système d’Information et Management, 211: 39-67.
• Cheruy C., Robert F. & Belbaly N. Forthcoming. OSS popularity: understanding the relationship between user-developer interaction, market potential and development stage. Système d’Information et Management.
• Benbya H. 2015. Exploring the design and effects of internal knowledge markets. Springer Publishing.

Examples of current work

• Unlocking the potential of Idea systems
• Emergent phenomena in IT
• Crowdsourcing and lead user innovation

   

Events

• Co-Chair of the scientific committee of the 22^nd conference of the Association Information & Management (AIM), May 17-19, 2017: http://www.skema.edu/faculty-and-research/aim-2017/aim-2017-22nd-aim-colloquium.
• Co-organized (with Ning Nan, Huseyin Tanriverdi and Youngjin Yoo) a Professional Development Workshop on Complexity in Information Systems Research and Digital Business, Academy of Management, August 7, 2015: https://ocis.aom.org/category/pdws/
• Co-organized and hosted the Third Annual Symposium on Complexity and Information. Technology at Montpellier Business School, July 6-7, 2015.

Members

• Dr Hind Benbya
• Dr Nassim Belbaly (Birmingham City Business School)
• Dr Calin Gurau
• Dr Clémence Cheruy (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III)
• Dr Autcharaporn Somsing (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis)
• PhD student Vidya Vallury 

Contact
Dr Hind Benbya

Brief presentation

Much research has been conducted in the last decades to understand the emergence of startups and the key factors of success for entrepreneurs. As argued by Pr. Thomas Hellmann (Saïd Business School, Oxford, UK), due to its positive impact on job creations and economics growth entrepreneurship is now considered and recognized as one subdomain of the economic science research, alongside macroeconomics, development economics and others. The objective of the group is to join researchers specialized in entrepreneurship from various areas (strategy, economics, finance, innovation) that share an economic viewpoint on entrepreneurial topics as well as global policy concerns. In particular we focus on quantitative methods and theoretical analysis. The research group is a joint effort of Montpellier Business School (Andrieu, den Besten, Khedhaouria, Laguir, Nakara, Sekeris, Thurik), EM Lyon, France (Groh), UPMC Paris VI, France (Dalle), Calabria University, Italy (La Rocca), University of Messina, Italy (Staglianò).

Our research fields include

• Venture capital, business angels
• Business incubators
• Crowdfunding
• Initial Coin Offerings
• Corporate governance
• Networks
• SMEs financing
• Motivating innovation

Examples of communications

• Academy of management
• BABSON
• RENT
• Financial Management Association

Examples of publications

• Andrieu, G., & Groh, A. P. 2020. Strategic exits in secondary venture capital markets. Journal of Business Venturing, Forthcoming.
• Andrieu, G., & Groh, A. P. (2018). Specialist versus generalist investors: Trading off support quality, investment horizon and control rights. European Economic Review, 101, 459-478.
• Andrieu, G. & Groh, A.P. 2012. Entrepreneurs’ Financing Choice Between Independent and Bank-Affiliated Venture Capital Firms”. Journal of Corporate Finance Vol. 18, 1143-1167.
• Andrieu, G., Staglianò, R., & van der Zwan, P. (2017). Bank debt and trade credit for SMEs in Europe: firm-, industry-, and country-level determinants. Small Business Economics, 1-20.
• Block, J. H., Hoogerheide, L., & Thurik, R. (2013). Education and entrepreneurial choice: An instrumental variables analysis. International Small Business Journal, 31(1), 23-33.
• El Baz, J., Laguir, I., Marais, M., & Staglianò, R. Forhtcoming. Influence of National Institutions on the Corporate Social Responsibility Practices of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in the Food-processing Industry: Differences between France and Morocco. Journal of Business Ethics.
• Khedhaouria A., Gurău C. & Torrès O. 2014. Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation. Small Business Economics, Vol. 43, n°2. [DOI 10.1007/s11187-014-9608-y]
• Sekeris, P. G. (2014). The tragedy of the commons in a violent world. The RAND Journal of Economics, 45(3), 521-532.

Contact

Dr Guillaume Andrieu

Brief presentation

Accounting for sustainability and innovation can play a major role in the development of sustainable business models.. It comprises internal and external practices and mechanisms devoted to measure, monitor, represent and communicate the wider performance of an organization including environmental, social, economic, innovation and operations aspects and their interrelationships.

The aim of the research group is to address all issues related to this area including new developments in sustainability accounting, the role and use of accounting systems for sustainability, operations and innovation strategies, the integration of sustainability, operations and innovation into performance measurement systems, the linkage between business strategy, sustainable strategy, innovation strategy, operations strategy and corporate governance as well as the role of accounting, finance and innovation departments for organizational change towards sustainability and innovation, and their relationship with the CSR/sustainability/innovation.

The research group is a joint effort of Montpellier Business School (Matthijs den Besten, Cyril Foropon, Issam Laguir andMagalie Marais), ICN Business School (Rebecca Stekelorum), ‎Università degli Studi di Messina (Raffaele Staglianò) and the University of Ibn Zohr in Morocco (Jamal Elbaz).

Examples of current work

• Management control systems, CSR and corporate tax aggressiveness;
• Management control systems and innovation;
• Management control systems and supply chain management;
• Management control systems and resilience.

Examples of communications

• Laguir I, El Shoubaki A. & Den Besten M. 2017. Human capital, firm creation, and SME growth: a mediation approach. Entrepreneurship Future, May 11, Paris, France.
• Laguir I., Laguir L. & Stekelorum R. 2016. Does it pay to be a socially responsible bank? Accounting & Finance Associations of Australia and New Zealand AFAANZ, July 03-05, Queensland, Australia.
• Marais M. & Young S. 2016. Corporate governance perspectives and CSR: Issues for stakeholder management. Academy of Management AOM, August 5-9, Anaheim, California, USA.
• Laguir I., Elbaz J. & Laguir L. 2014. Are family SMEs more socially responsible than nonfamily SMEs? Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), June 05-08, Portland, USA.
• Laguir I., Elbaz J. & Marais M. 2013. Family Firms and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Preliminary Evidence from the French stock market. Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), May 17-19, Viña del Mar, Chile
• El Baz J., Laguir I., Marais M. & Staglianò R. 2012. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in SMEs: Understanding differences between France and Morocco in the food-processing industry. International Council for Small Business Conference (ICSB), June 10-13, Wellington, New Zealand.

   

Examples of publications

• Laguir, I., Stekelorum, R., & El Baz, J. 2020. Going green? Investigating the relationships between proactive environmental strategy, GSCM practices and performances of third-party logistics providers (TPLs). Production Planning & Control, 1-14.
• Forgione, A. F., Laguir, I., & Staglianò, R. 2020. Effect of corporate social responsibility scores on bank efficiency: The moderating role of institutional context. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management.
• Laguir L., Laguir I. & Tchemeni E. 2019. Implementing CSR activities through management control systems: A formal and informal control perspective. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.
• El Shoubaki A., Laguir I. & Den Besten M. 2019. Human capital and SME growth: The mediating role of reasons to start a business. Small Business Economics, 1-15
• Brulhart F., Gherra S. & Marais M. 2017. Are environmental strategies profitable for companies? The key role of natural competences from a resource-based view. Management Decision.
• Laguir I., Laguir L., Elbaz J. 2016. Are family small- and medium-sized enterprises more socially responsible than nonfamily small- and medium-sized enterprises? Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Vol. 23 (6) 2016, pp. 386–398.
• El Baz J. & Laguir I. Forthcoming. Third party logistics providers TPLs and environmental sustainability practices in developing countries: the case of Morocco. International Journal of Operations & Production Management.
• El Baz J., Laguir I., Marais M. & Staglianò R. 2016. Influence of National Institutions on the Corporate Social Responsibility Practices of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in the Food-processing Industry: Differences between France and Morocco. Journal of Business Ethics, 134: 117-133.
• Laguir I., Staglianò R. & El Baz J. 2015. Does corporate social responsibility affect corporate tax aggressiveness? Journal of Cleaner Production, 107: 662-675.

Members 

• Dr Matthijs den Besten
• Dr Jamal Elbaz 
• Dr Cyril Foropon
• Dr Issam Laguir
• Dr Magalie Marais
• Raffaele Staglianò
• Dr Rebecca Stekelorum

Contact

• Dr Issam Laguir

Brief description

This group brings together researchers in marketing, design, communication and management, with a wide array of specializations, all sharing a common goal of better understanding how theories and methods coming from management and design can enrich each other to improve organizations global performance. Our research works deal with brand design and communication, design thinking, design management, management of innovation, management of creative thinking within organizations, social marketing, packaging design, spread of innovation to consumers and consumers acceptance of innovation, creative industries amongst others.

This group aims at stimulating the scientific debate and at diffusing new research ideas. To that end, the group creates research and pedagogical materials about themes mentioned above. The group also organizes workshops on these questions as well as specific courses/seminars.

Examples of publications 

• Bertele K., Feiereisen S., Storey C. & Van Laer T. 2020. It’s not what you say, it’s the way you say it! Effective message styles for promoting innovative new services. Journal of Business Research.
• Celhay F., Magnier L. & Schoormans J. 2020. Hip and Authentic. Defining Neo-Retro Style in Package Design. International Journal of Design.
• Celhay F., Cheng P., Masson J. & Li W. 2020. Package graphic design and communication across cultures: An investigation of Chinese consumers’ interpretation of imported wine labels. International Journal of Research in Marketing.
• Luffarelli J., Mukesh M. & Mahmood A. 2019. Let the Logo Do the Talking: The Influence of Logo Descriptiveness on Brand Equity. Journal of Marketing Research.
• Mahmood A., Luffarelli J. & Mukesh M. & 2019. What’s in a Logo? The Impact of Complex Visual Cues in Equity Crowdfunding. Journal of Business Venturing
• Favier M., Celhay F. & Pantin Sohier G. 2019. Is less more or a bore? Package design simplicity and brand perception: an application to Champagne. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services.
• Feiereisen S., Rasolofoarison D., De Valck K. & Schmitt J. 2018. Understanding emerging adults’ consumption of TV series in the digital age: A practice-theory-based approach. Journal of Business Research.
• Luffarelli J., Stamatogiannakis A. & Yang H. 2018. The visual asymmetry effect: an interplay of Logo design and brand personality on brand equity. Journal of Marketing Research.
• Celhay F., Masson J., Garcia Granata K., Folcher P. & Cohen J. 2017. Package graphic design and innovation: A comparative study of Bordeaux and Barossa wine visual codes. Recherche et Applications en Marketing.
• Kaminska R. & and Mukerjee Nath J. 2016.Designing for entrepreneurship and emergence.  Academy of Management Proceedings.
• Delre S. A., Broekhuizen T. L. J.& Bijmolt, T. H. A. 2016. The Effects of Shared Consumption on Product Life Cycles and Advertising Effectiveness: The Case of the Motion Picture Market. Journal of Marketing Research.
• Celhay F. & Trinquecoste J.-F. 2015. Package graphic design: investigating the variables that moderate consumer response to atypical designs. Journal of Product Innovation Management.
• Khedhaouria A., Gurău C. & Torrès O. 2015. Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation. Small Business Economics.
• Feiereisen S., Wong V. & Broderick 2013. Is a Picture Always Worth a Thousand Words? The Impact of Presentation Formats in Consumers’ Early Evaluations of Really New Products (RNPs). Journal of Product Innovation Management.

Members

• Dr Jacqueline Boysselle
• Dr Franck Celhay
• Dr Paul Chiambaretto
• Dr Sebastiano Delre
• Dr Calin Gurău
• Dr Stéphanie Feireisen
• Dr Jonathan Luffarelli
• Dr Jinia Mukerjee
• Manon Favier (PhD student, MBS – Angers University)
• Dr Josselin Masson (Montpellier University)
• Dr Karine Garcia Granata (Montpellier University)

Contact 

Dr Franck Celhay

Presentation

This multidisciplinary research group, formed in January 2012, aims to investigate responsibility of organizations by integrating performance elements. It understands how organizations participate in the social and environmental transition of our societies.Responsibility and performance are defined here around various dimensions such as economic, social and environmental. This group looks in particular at values viewpoint of economic and social actors while taking into account the diversity of organizational forms. The word “values” has many interpretations because it not only refers to financial, economic and social values (value created for different kind of stakeholders) but also to individual and collective values influencing peoples’ behavior. Different levels of analysis (individual, joint and organizational) are used to describe these concepts, their importance and their managerial implications.

Activities/missions

This research group aims at addressing (without restriction) the following themes/questions : 

• How can organizations manage to be mission-driven and to satisfy in the same time their economic objectives? What are the resulting tensions/paradoxes and how can we manage them?
• How do stakeholders contribute to the realization of economic, social and environmental outcomes in organizations? What are the power relations? How to manage them?
• What forms of alternatives organizations or managerial innovations are desirable and feasible to sustain the social and environmental transition of our societies?

Selected academic contributions

• Marais M. & Magnani S. Forthcoming. Les monnaies locales complémentaires (MLC) en France : des organisations hybrides en tension(s). Management International.
• Kessari M., Joly C., Jaouen A. & Jaeck M. Forthcoming. Alternative food networks: good practices for sustainable performance, Journal of Marketing Management.
• Jaouen A., Jaeck M., Joly C., & Kessari M. Forthcoming. Les magasins de producteurs : vers un renouveau de l’action collective des PME agricoles. Revue Internationale PME.
• Marais, M., Reynaud, E. & Vilanova, L. 2020 CSR dynamics in the midst of competing injunctions: the case of Danone. European Management Review, 17(1), 19-39.
• Marais M., Joly C, Meyer M, Jaeck M., Kessari M., Andiappan M. & Dufour L. 2020. Legitimizing a diversity policy in a challenging environment: A case study of a French business school. Management International, 24(1): 56-71. 
• Nakara, W. A., Messeghem, K., & Ramaroson, A. (2019). Innovation and entrepreneurship in a context of poverty: a multilevel approach. Small Business Economics, 1-17.
• Etchanchu, H. and Djelic, M.L. (2019). Old Wine in New Bottles? Parentalism, Power and its Legitimacy in Business-Society Relations. Journal of Business Ethics, 160(4), 893-911.
• Meyer M., Ohana M. & Stinglhamber F. 2018. The impact of supervisor interpersonal justice on supervisor-directed citizenship behaviors in social enterprises: a moderated mediation model. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 29(20), 2927-2948
• Meyer M., Granata J., Narjoud S. 2017. When collective action drives corporate social responsibility implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises: The case of a network of French winemaking cooperatives. International Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB ) 321/2: 7-27.
• Aigouy C. & Granata J. 2017. L’implémentation de la simplification en tant qu’innovation organisationnelle et première étape d’un processus de libération : le cas de Volkswagen Groupe France, Revue Internationale de Psychologie et Comportements Organisationnels, Numéro spécial sur L’entreprise libérée, Vol. 23, No. 56, pp. 63-85.
• Nakara, W. A., & Bourdil, M. 2016. Entrepreneuriat et prison : une étude exploratoire sur la création d’entreprise par des anciens détenus. Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat, 15(2), 109-139.

Contribution to practice

• Marais, M. (2020). Développer la résilience de son entreprise en temps de crise : la force de l’intelligence collective et de la gouvernance partagée. Focus RH. 15/06.
• Etchanchu, H. (2020). Covid-19 et climat : Quelles leçons tirer de ces crises ? Environnement
• Magazine. 07/04.
• Meyer M. & Granata J. 2020. Des leaders humains inclusifs pour mieux manager les crises, Monde des Grandes Ecoles, 8 juin.
• Granata J. 2020. Entreprise libérée : les nouveaux rôles des managers, The Conversation, 8 janvier.

• Nakara, W. A., Crespo-Febvay, Dufoix, C. (2020). Les quatre leviers pour rendre l’entreprise plus inclusive. The conversation.
• Marais, M., Nakara, W. A., (2019). Donner du sens au travail : vers une approche entrepreneuriale et inclusive ? Monde des Grandes Ecoles.
• Granata J. 2018. Santé et stress au travail : du constat aux innovations managériales, Sommet de la santé Objectif LR La Tribune, 17 mai, Le Crès, France. (Invited Speaker);
• Granata J. 2017. Libération, simplification et management démocratique, Journée RSE Mutuelle EOVI, 14 avril, MBS, Montpellier, France. (Invited Speaker).

Members

• Dr Helen Etchanchu
• Dr Julien Granata
• Dr Mélanie Jaeck
• Dr Cédrine Joly
• Dr Magalie Marais
• Dr Maryline Meyer
• Dr Walid Nakara

Contact 

Dr Magalie Marais