Commit to conceptual and empirical research in order to further our understanding of the role, dynamics, and impact of businesses in creating sustainable social, environmental, and economic value.
2018
CR3+ Conference in Nantes
— 2018
CR3+ Conference in Nantes
As part of a collaboration with Hanken School of Economics (Finland), ISAE/FGV (Brazil), and La Trobe Business School (Australia), Audencia organised the sixth CR3+ conference on the following theme: “Navigating the Plural Voices of Corporate Responsibility”. The conference, attended by 52 participants, was held on 12 and 13 June 2018.
The main international speakers:
- Minna Halme, Professor of Management at Aalto University business school, Helsinki, Finland
- Bobby Banerjee, Professor of Management and Director of the Executive PhD programme, Cass Business School, City University of London
- Andreas Georg Scherer, Chair for Foundations of Business Administration and Theories of the Firm, Zurich University, Switzerland
- Martin Fougère, Associate Professor of Management, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki
- Suzanne Young, Head of Department of Management, Sport and Tourism, La Trobe Business School, Australia
- Nikodemus Solitander, Director of the Centre for Corporate Responsibility (CCR), Helsinki
- Norman de Paula Arruda Filho, President of the Higher Institute of Administration and Economy (ISAE), Brazil
CR3+ is a direct collaboration between its four members, all of which are leaders in PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education). The four schools have been working together since 2008, with a view to exchanging ideas, teaching processes, programmes, and research in the field of corporate social responsibility.
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2018
Claire-Isabelle Roquebert thesis defence
— 2018
Claire-Isabelle Roquebert thesis defence
On Wednesday 14 November, Claire-Isabelle Roquebert, PhD student of the CSR Chair, defended the thesis she started 5 years ago. The main goal of her research was to understand how businesses adapt to respond to the new challenges they face in the current context of ecological crisis. The field of research was made up of two companies strongly involved in biodynamics through their adherence to its values and practices: Les Côteaux Nantais, a member of the Chair of CSR, and Body Nature.
Biodynamics is one of the founding movements of organic farming, and was developed against a backdrop of commodification and chemicalisation in the agricultural industry at the start of the 20th century. Today, its partisans criticise a loss of ethical and critical foundations in some organic farms, and continue to defend the vision of autonomous farms based on the equilibrium between plants, animals, humans, and cosmic forces. Claire-Isabelle Roquebert’s study helps us understand how participants, consumers, and directors approach CSR in such a context.
This research work was highly lauded by Les Côteaux Nantais and Body Nature, as well as by the members of the jury during its defence. “A must-read you absolutely have to discover! It’s goldmine, and one to watch as it’s optimistic about Body Nature’s Au-delà du Bio® initiative,” enthuses the founder of Body Nature, Gilles Guilbaud. The thesis will soon be available on the website http://theses.fr. Claire-Isabelle Roquebert continues her research as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne as of January 2019. Her work will centre on biodynamics and the issues surrounding its institutionalisation in order to transform practices in the agricultural sector.
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2018
Cybersecurity: Why are young people poorly protected?
— 2018
Cybersecurity: Why are young people poorly protected?
Bertrand Venard, professor of strategy at Audencia since 2002, is currently undertaking research at Oxford University on young people’s cybersecurity behaviour, alongside Viktor Mayer-Schönberger from the Oxford Internet Institute. The goal is to understand weaknesses in risk evaluation, behaviour when faced with cyberattacks, and to offer prevention policy proposals. This study relates to other research projects led by Bertrand Venard on economic fraud, as a part of the Audencia Chair of “Anti-fraud and Cybersecurity”, of which he is holder, financed by the Pays de Loire Regional Council, the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bhutan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the European Union.
“Analysing cybersecurity behaviour will better enable us to fight cybercriminality, through improved risk anticipation,” Bertrand Venard explains. “This project is especially important as we often think young people are better protected against cyber risks than previous generations. However, if they do have more highly developed technical skills, they are equally extremely dependent on the digital world, which makes them more vulnerable. Furthermore, understanding young people’s behaviour is also a step towards understanding the cyber risks facing young, as well as less young, employees. Even if they have differing relationships with the digital world, both groups of people suffer increasingly frequent cyber threats.”
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Objective 2019
Organising the 15th EIASM workshop
— 2019 Objective
Organising the 15th EIASM workshop
“In 2019, we’re organising the 15th Workshop on Family Entrepreneurship & Society at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EISAM) at Audencia, from 23 to 25 May 2019,” academic and research director André Sobczak has announced. “The objective is to create links between research on CSR and other areas, and to create synergies among the research skills we have at Audencia. The ‘Family Entrepreneurship & Society’ theme we have chosen for the event seeks to encourage research at the intersection of family, business, and CSR/viability. This is the second-largest conference on family entrepreneurship in Europe, and generally brings together around 90 European participants. Our advisory board is made up of university academics from over 15 countries, presenting both on the themes of ‘Family Entrepreneurship’ and ‘Society’. The event will equally enable members of the Audencia teaching faculty undertaking research on family entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial spirit, and CSR to connect with each other as well as with the members of the newly created ‘Business and Society’ department.”
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