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Manuel MORALES
Full Time Professor of Strategic Management
Home Manuel MORALES - Full Time Professor of Strategic Management

Manuel Morales is a Full Time Professor at the Clermont School of Business. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Clermont Auvergne. He teaches Strategic Management, Environmental Geopolitics and Alignment of purchasing and supply chain management, among other subjects. He is a member of CleRMa (Clermont Recherche Management), Sustainability Transitions Collective (STC) and Circular Economy Research Club (CERCL). His research focuses on the circular economy, innovation and supply chains, to better understand the complexity of variables and their impact on industry and society. He started his career as a Researcher in Industry 4.0 and Digitalisation after a 2-year post-doc in Bioeconomics at the Bioraffinerie de Pomacle-Bazancourt. He joins Clermont School of Business in 2023 as a Professor in the Innovation and Development Department.

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In brief
Teaching areas
- Strategic management
- International development strategy
- Research methodology
- Territorial management and the circular economy
- Industrial economics
- Business innovation
- Geopolitics of the environment
Research topics
- Researcher at CleRMa, Clermont Research Management : STeRA Axis, Territory Strategy and Stakeholder Networks
- Supply chain management - Innovation management
- Circular economy
- Circular textiles
- Systems dynamic transition and Compex systems
Education
- PhD in Economics, University of Clermont Auvergne, 2019

Professional experience

  • Since 2023: Clermont School of Business -Professor in Strategic Management
  • 2022-2023 Head of the Circular Economy and Industrial Ecology Observatory at the University of Clermont Auvergne
  • 2020-2022 Researcher in circular economy, member of the ERA Chair team, Industry 4.0 Impact on Management Practices and Economics (IN4ACT), School of Economics and Business, Kaunas University of Technology
  • 2018-2022 Post-doc in economics, NEOMA Business School – Reims Campus/Industrial Bioeconomics Chair
  • 2011-2015Professor, Technological University of the Coast, Nayarit, Mexico

Publications – Contributions

Professional and newspaper articles

  • Diemer, A., Morales, M.E., Les symbioses industrielles ouvrent une nouvelle ère économique, La Recherche No. 569, pp. 56-59

Academic research articles (peer-reviewed)

  • Ghobakhloo, M., Iranmanesh, M., Morales, M.E., Nilashi, M., Amran, A., Actions and approaches for enabling Industry 5.0-driven sustainable industrial transformation: A strategy roadmap (2022) Corporate social responsibility and Environmental Management. https://doi.org10.1002/csr.2431
  • Morales, M.E., Lhuillery, S., Ghobakhloo, M., Circularity Effect in the Viability of Bio-Based Industrial Symbiosis: Tackling extraordinary events in value chains. Journal of Cleaner Production (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131387
  • Morales, M.E., Diemer, A., Cervantes, G., Combining Efficiency and Resilience Assessments in Industrial Symbiosis Value Chains: A Comprehensive Flow Analysis, International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, 11, 11. Series 1 (November 2021),
  • Ghobakhloo, M., Fathib, M., Iranmanesh, M., Maroufkhani, P., .Morales, M.E., (2021) Industry 4.0 ten years on: A bibliometric and systematic review of concepts, sustainability value drivers, and success determinants. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol.302, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127052
  • Abad-Segura, E., Morales, M.E., Cortés-García F.J., Belmonte-Ureña, L.J., (2020). Industrial Processes Management for a Sustainable Society: Global Research Analysis, Processes, 8, 631; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8050631
  • Morales, M.E., Diemer, A., (2019) Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics, a Strategy to Accomplish Complex Analysis: The Dunkirk Case Study, Sustainability, 11(7), 1971; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11071971
  • T.M. Pinto, J., Morales, M.E., Fedoruk, M., Kovaleva, M., Arnaud, D., (2019) “Servitization in Support of Sustainable Cities; What are steel’s contributions and challenges? Journal of Sustainability, 11, 855, https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030855
  • Morales, Manuel E.; Cervantes, Gemma; Diemer, Arnaud; Carrillo González, Graciela, (2019) “By-product Synergy” Dynamic Evolution at the Altamira-Tampico Industrial Corridor: 20 Years of Industrial Ecology in Mexico; Journal of Resources, Conservation and Recycling 140, pp. 235–245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.09.026

Book chapters and Handbooks

  • Morales, M., Nousala, S., Ghobakhloo, M. (2024). “The Complexity of Sustainable Innovation, Transitional Impacts of Industry 4.0 to 5.0 for Our Societies: Circular Society Exploring the Systemic Nexus of Socioeconomic Transitions“. In: Nousala, S., Metcalf, G., Ing, D. (eds) Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0. Translational Systems Sciences, vol 41. Springer, Singapore. 
  • Diemer, A., Nedelciu, C.E., Morales, M.E., Batisse, C., Canturias-Villessuzanne, C., (2022) Waste Management and Circular Economy in the French Building and Construction Sector, Front. Sustain. 3:840091. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.840091
  • Morales, M.E., (2020) La symbiose industrielle et urbaine, une stratégie innovante pour la bioéconomie : le cas de la bioraffinerie de Bazancourt-Pomacle, Actes ESPI 2020, IMMOBILIER DURABLE de la ville d’aujourd’hui à la cité de demain, ISBN 9782957474905
  • Morales, M.E., (2020) Industrial symbiosis, a circular bioeconomy strategy. The sugar beet case study at the Bazancourt-Pomacle Platform, Diemer A., Nedelciu E., Schellens M., Morales, M.E., Oostdijk M., 2020, Eds, Association Oeconomia, pp. 145-160. Paradigms, models, scenarios and practices for strong sustainability. ISBN 979-10-92495-13-3
  • Coelho, P., Morales, M., & Diemer, A. (2017). Analyzing symbiotic relationships in Sustainable Cities: A framework. In A. Diemer, F. Dierickx, G. Gladkykh, M. Morales, T. Parrique, & J. Torres, European Union and Sustainable Development: Challenge and Prospects, Editorial Oeconomia (pp. 192-217). Clermont-Ferrand: Oeconomia.
  • Morales, M., Fedoruk, M., Kovaleva, M., & Torres, J. (2017). Servitization tendency at sustainable cities, the sucess stories of housing, energy and mobility sectors. In A. Diemer, F. Dierickx, G. Gladkykh, M. Morales, T. Parrique, & J. Torres, European Union and Sustainable Development: Challenge and Prospects (pp. 218-234). Clermont-Ferrand: Oeconomia

Papers in academic conferences

  • Morales, M. (2024). Empirical Assessment Of The Circular Economy Transition. Indicators For A Multi-Level Perspective. Green Deal, Industrial Ecology And Circular Economy, Clermont-Ferrand, Décembre
  • Morales, M. (2024). How Innovation Ecosystems Facilitate Circular Economy Implementation? System Dynamics Drivers In The European Textile Ecosystem – International Conference On Resource Sustainability, Bangkok (Thaïlande), November
  • Morales M. (2024), Does Innovation Ecosystems facilitate Circular Economy Implementation? System Dynamics drivers in the European Manufacturing System, Colloque Anthropocène et Organisation, Clermont-Ferrand, 19-21 juin
  • MORALES RUBIO, M. (2023). Key-drivers Identification for Industrial Symbiosis Entailing Circular Economy Transition in Europe at the session of Resilience of organizations, networks and cities Kaunas, IEEE-TEMS, Lithuania, 20-22 avril
  • Belmonte-Ureña, L,J.,Batlles-delaFuente A, Abad-Segura, E., Morales, M.E., Bioeconomy as A Way of Development and Sustainability: A Study Focused on the Field of Water, (2022) IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 987 012019
  • Morales M.E., Belmonte-Urena L.J, Theoretical research on circular economy and sustainability trade-offs and synergies: A bibliometric analysis, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Technology and Entrepreneurship, ICTE 2021, Kaunas 24 August 2021
  • Morales, M.E.; Lhuillery, S., (2021) “Modelling Circularity in Bio-based Economy through Territorial System Dynamics”, 2021 IEEE European Technology & Engineering Management Summit, Conference publications
  • IEEE E-TEMS 2023 Conference. Key-drivers Identification for Industrial Symbiosis Entailing Circular Economy Transition in Europe at the session of Resilience of organizations, networks and cities Kaunas, Lithuania, (April 20-22, 2023).
  • International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) conference. Key-Drivers shaping Circular Economy Transitions: System Dynamics Method in the Circular Manufacturing Systems Stockholm, Sweden, (June 15-17, 2022)
  • Paper clinics Kaunas University of Technology, June 16th, 2022. Online.
  • R&D Management Conference 2022. Key-Drivers shaping Circular Economy Transitions: System Dynamics Method in the Circular Manufacturing Systems at University of Trento, Italy. (July 10th – July 13th, 2022). Online.
  • 2nd International Symposium on Sustainable Logistics „Circular economy“ held in Toros university on June 23-24, 2022. Online. Chair holder in the Circular economy session.
  • Circular Economy approaches and scales of analysis in the Global value chains, Round table on Circular economy in Customs at the 16th Annual PICARD Conference by the World Customs Organization, 9-10th December, 2021

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