Research

This area studies the profound transformations that companies and employees are facing in the new context of the knowledge economy and permanent innovation.

It is composed of three teams:

• The “Management of Extreme Situations” programme aims to identify the new rules of the managerial game linked to the logic of innovative exploration projects. This programme has a chair, the Open Lab Exploration Innovation
• The “New HRM projects” programme brings together work on the notions of social responsibility, organisational socialisation, diversity, SMEs, work climate, skills management and employee commitment/cooperation in the workplace in line with the contemporary economic context.
• The “People Management” programme is led by teacher-researchers engaged in a critical analysis aimed at studying the forms of management developing in the so-called liberated companies.

Organisations, whatever their status, size or sector of activity, develop strategies of collaboration, cooperation or coopetition. These strategies result in the interaction of multiple actors (private, public, associations) which transform their practices and the ecosystems in which they evolve. They contribute to the dynamics of the territories and the reconfiguration of the networks in which they are established.

The STeRA (Strategy, Territory and Networks of Actors) axis proposes to update the mechanisms of these phenomena through multidisciplinary approaches mobilising theoretical frameworks from strategy, public management, logistics or marketing. A particular focus on the management of health and the corresponding organisations characterises this axis, which is supported by the Health and Territories Chair.

This axis questions the power and information links that connect corporate governance to its shareholders and its environment in the broadest sense.

It thus includes two research programmes:

• The “Governance, information and performance of socially responsible companies” programme examines the influence of corporate governance and CSR mechanisms on the accounting and financial decisions of the executive and on the company’s performance. It is supported by the Value & CSR Chair.
• The “Risk Management and International Financial Markets” programme studies the impact of the dynamics of international financial markets on risk management, particularly in the commodities and insurance markets.