Research groups and chairs

Research groups play a major role in the organisation and development of research at Montpellier Business School. Research adopts a modern strategy based on interdisciplinary research groups fostering strong cooperation between internal and external teacher-researchers. Research groups are dynamic and evolving with teacher-researchers who can contribute simultaneously to several groups. Organisationally, they are holacratic and setting up to capture synergies and create a scientific body spirit.

Montpellier Business School is strong with its 9 research groups :

Entrepreneurship entry mode and survival
Business survival and growth
Inter-organisational and interpersonal relations in the SMEs context
Health, entrepreneurship and psychological markers
Information Technology and Innovation
Entrepreneurial economics
Accounting for sustainability and innovation
Design, creative thinking and innovation
Values, organisations, actors and responsibility (VOAR)

In addition to these research groups, Montpellier Business School also has several chairs:

Chair Microfinance in Developed Countries
Chair in Digital Business
Chair in Social Entrepreneurship and Inclusion

Based on the activities of the Chair Microfinance in Developed Countries and the Chair in Social Entrepreneurship & Inclusion, MBS launched the « Yunus Centre for Social Business and Financial Inclusion »in October 2019.

MBS is also a Partner of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Chair.

Chair Microfinance in Developed Countries

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.

Chair in Digital Business

Présentation

The Chair in Digital Business, held by Prof Hind Benbya, uses state-of-the-art methodologies to study the implications and consequences of emerging technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing platforms and other digital technologies on the future of the workplace. The research chair’s activities are conducted by experts in their fields in cooperation with industry leaders and, as such, they are of high practical and academic relevance. The chair’s main priority is to provide a solid basis for research and education into recent advances in digital technologies and share key business insights on its implications on the workplace.

The holder

Dr Hind BENBYA

Members

Dr Stella Pachidi
Cambridge University, UK

Dr Dorothy Leidner
Baylor University, US

Dr Jerry Kane
Boston College, US

Dr Cristina Alaimo
Surrey University, UK

Dr Kevin (Jie) Yan
Dalton State University, US

Dr Samia Cornelius
Baylor University, US

Dr Nassim Belbaly
Montpellier Business School, FR

Dr Mathijs Den Besten
Montpellier Business School, FR

News

Call for Papers: Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) – MISQ Executive (MISQE) Joint Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in Organizations: Opportunities for Management and Implications for IS Research

Guest Editors:

Hind Benbya, Montpellier Business School, h.benbya@montpellier-bs.com

Stella Pachidi, Cambridge University, s.pachidi@jbs.cam.ac.uk

Tom Davenport, Babson College, tdavenport@babson.edu

Sirkka Jarvenpaa, University of Texas, Sirkka.Jarvenpaa@mccombs.utexas.edu

For topics of interest, deadlines and rationale for the joint JAIS-MISQE special issue, please see the call for papers below:
Call for Papers JAIS-MISQE joint SI on AI in Organizations

Chair in Social Entrepreneurship and Inclusion

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; 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

Entrepreneurship entry mode and survival

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. Forthcoming. The survival of business takeovers and new venture start-ups. Industrial and Corporate Change.
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

Contact
Dr Frank Lasch

Firm survival and growth

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. Forthcoming. Human capital and SME growth: The mediating role of reasons to start a business. Small Business Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0129-y
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

Contact
Dr Frank Lasch

Inter-organizational and inter-personal relations in the context of SMEs

Presentation

Trust is usually considered to be crucial in inter-organizational and interpersonal long-lasting relations. This thesis is sometimes contradictory to the notion of economic rationality but researches on SMEs underline the overlapping of social and economic relations. Strong and direct ties play an important role in the small firm context as they permit to establish special relations based mainly on personal ties. In this perspective, strong ties may induce parallel coordination mechanisms, provide new organizational forms and improve firm performance. Furthermore, they may give sense to paradox that arises when contradictory aims are pursued, as the universe of references changes.

Examples of current work

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

Examples of publications (selected)

Members

Contact

Dr Katherine Gundolf
Dr Annabelle Jaouen

Health, entrepreneurship and psychological markers

Brief presentation

Knowing their crucial role for innovation and economic growth, entrepreneurs and self-employed people have often been considered to be in better mental health than employees. However, this distinction remains unexplored or even unknown. The links that deal with the mental health of employees are widely documented in the literature, which is not the case for entrepreneurs and self-employed people. In addition, studies on entrepreneurs’ mental health and performance, related to technostress, affect, mindfulness, personality traits, job burnout, job stressors, and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are scarce in the entrepreneurship literature.

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

Technostress creators
Positive affect
Mindfulness
The entrepreneurial process
The success of sole proprietors

Examples of communications

Benzari A., Torres O., Khedhaouria A. & Cucchi A. 2019. The impact of technostress on burnout of small business owners. Académie de l’Entrepreneuriat et de l’Innovation (AEI), Montpellier, France.
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.
Khedhaouria A., Thurik R., Torrès O., & Verheul I. 2015. Entrepreneurship and ADHD symptoms. 13th Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER), February 25–27, Montpellier, France (nominated best paper).

Examples of publications

Khedhaouria A. & Cucchi A. 2019. Technostress creators, personality traits, and job burnout: A fuzzy-set configurational analysis. Journal of Business Research, 101: 349-361.
Bernoster I., Khedhaouria A. & Thurik R. 2019. Positive affect, the entrepreneurial process, and the entrepreneurial success of sole proprietors. M@n@gement.
Montani F., Vandenberghe C., Khedhaouria A. & Courcy F. 2018. Examining the inverted u-shaped relationship between workload and innovative work behavior: The role of work engagement and mindfulness. Human Relations.
Thurik, R., Khedhaouria, A., Torrès, O., & Verheul, I. 2016. ADHD Symptoms and Entrepreneurial Orientation of Small Firm Owners, Applied Psychology, 65 (3), 568–586.
Khedhaouria A., Gurău C., & Torrès O. 2015. Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation, Small Business Economics, 44 (3), 485–504.

Members

Contact
Dr Anis Khedhaouria

IT and innovation

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

Contact
Dr Hind Benbya

Entrepreneurial economics

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 importance in job creations, economics growth etc. 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

Examples of communications

Academy of management
BABSON
RENT
Financial Management Association

Examples of publications

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

Accounting for sustainability and innovation

Brief presentation

Accounting for sustainability and innovation can play a major role in this context. 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, and innovation 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 and innovation strategies, the integration of sustainability and innovation into performance measurement systems, the linkage between business strategy, sustainable strategy, innovation 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, Magalie Marais, and Carlos Sanchez), Université de Montpellier (Rebecca Stekelorum) and the University of Ibn Zohr in Morocco (Jamal Elbaz).

Examples of current work

CSR and corporate tax aggressiveness;
Family SMEs and innovation;
CSR and financial performance;
Family firms and tax aggressiveness.

Examples of communications

Boysselle J. & Sanchez Sanchez CR. 2017. Qualitative evaluation of the influence of two different cultures, Mexican and French, on Corporate Social Responsibility CSR perceptions in organic and Fairtrade food industry. V Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Emprendimiento y de la Micro, Pequeña y Mediana empresa en México CIIEMIPYME, October 24-27, Cancun, Mexico.
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

Brulhart F., Gherra S. & Marais M. Forthcoming. 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.
Laguir I., Den Besten M., Elbaz J. & Stekelorum R. 2017. Sowing the seeds: The impact of initial ties on growth and innovation among Micro and Small Firms. Economics Bulletin, 37: 89.
Laguir I. & Den Besten M. 2016. The influence of the entrepreneur’s personal characteristics on MSE growth through innovation. Applied Economics, 4844: 4183-4200.
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.
Laguir I. & Stagliano R. 2014. How do powerful CEOs manage corporate tax aggressiveness? Economics Bulletin, 343: 1361-1368.
Elbaz J., Laguir I. & Balambo M.A. 2014. Quelle influence de la Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises (RSE) sur la sélection des prestataires de services logistiques (PSL)? Etude exploratoire des entreprises marocaines. Logistique et Management, 22(1), 57-66.

Members

Contact

Dr Issam Laguir

Design creative thinking and innovation

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

Members

Dr Laurie Balbo
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

Values, organizations, actors and responsibility (VOAR)

Presentation

This multidisciplinary research group, formed in January 2012, aims to investigate responsibility of organizations by integrating performance elements. 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 economic, social and environmental objectives in the long run?

Selected academic contributions

Contribution to practice

Members of the Values and Diversity committee of Montpellier Business School ;
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 of AFMD (Association Française des Managers de la Diversité) : French network of diversity managers ;
Scientific experts for “Magpro project” to define and support new patterns of alternative food networks (collective farm shops), funded by the French Agricultural Ministry;
Scientific experts for the VDD (Vignerons en Développement Durable) network: French network of wine growers in sustainable development;
Scientific experts for the OHM du bassin minier de Provence: Network for management of environmental risks.
Jaeck M. Forthcoming. Impacts économiques des politiques publiques sur la dynamique de développement de la riziculture. In Mouret J.C. (Eds.), Le Riz et la Camargue – Vers des agroécosystèmes rizicoles durables. Paris, Inra département SAD, Cardère Edition & Educagri.
Joly C., Marais M. 2017. La Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises (RSE) : un terreau fertile pour l’innovation. Cahiers Territoriaux de l’Association Française des Managers de la Diversité (AFMD)
Meyer M. & Narjoud S. 2015. Succès d’une démarche collective autour du développement durable : Le Cas de Vignerons en Développement Durable. Revue Française d’Oenologie, November/December, 273.
2012-2013: Consulting mission for Montpellier Business School “Link between diversity & performance” (Gherra, Jaeck, Joly, Kessari, Marais, Meyer in cooperation with M. Andiappan & L. Dufour).

Members

Contact

Dr Magalie Marais

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