The Future of Work

2025

Arsel, Z., Zanette, M. C., & da Rocha Melo, C. (2025). Sponsored content as an epistemic market object: How platformization of brand–creator partnerships disrupts valuation, coproduction, and the relationship between market actors. Journal of Marketing. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222429241296459

Beaujolin, R., & Levet, P. (2025). Re-concevoir le travail avec/après un cancer : Enclencher une dynamique d’apprentissage organisationnel à l’appui de mécanismes narratifs. Revue Française de Gestion, 320(1), 115‑140. https://doi.org/10.1684/rfg.2025.55

Bhatnagar, K., Cayla, J., & Suquet, JB. (2025). Service work as lived experience: A problematizing review. Human Resource Management, hrm.70045. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.70045

Breevaart, K., & Schyns, B. (2025). Does leader personality predict abusive supervision? Current Opinion in Psychology, 66, 102118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102118

Choi, D., Im, Y., & Kim, D. (2025). Interaction effects of peer-based control and leader goal orientation on team effectiveness. Small Group Research, 10464964251378461. https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964251378461

Coron, C., Scheibmayr, I., & Lescoat, P. (2025). How to do HRM with numbers? A performative lens on HR metrics, HR analytics and HR algorithms. New Technology, Work and Employment, 40(1), 124‑146. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12306

Dubois, S. (2025). Le New Public Management dans la culture ? : Professionnalisation, marchandisation et « expertisation » dans la poésie contemporaine. Gestion et Management Public. https://shs.cairn.info/revue-gestion-et-management-public-2024-5-page-1p?lang=fr

Iehlé, V., & Jacqmin, J. (2025). Can students help us better rank higher education institutions? The case of French business schools. Studies in Higher Education, 50(12), 2857‑2880. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2436547

Koumakhov, R. (2025). Conventions, rationality, and social interaction. In R. Diaz-Bone & G. D. Larquier (Éds.), Handbook of Economics and Sociology of Conventions (p. 1‑23). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52130-1_114-1

Lecomte, U., Thenot, M., Lethielleux, L., & Berjillos, A. D. L. R. (2025). Professional inclusion of women with disabilities : A bibliometric study focused on intersectionality. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 27(1), 746‑762. https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1122

Lescoat, P., & Van den Bussche, P. (2025). (E)valuated by the market: The challenges of evaluating the individual performance of sell-side analysts in the quest for narrative authority. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 102, 102795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2025.102795

Liang, Y., Qin, J., & Ishizaka, A. (2025). Assessment of digital economy development with the new multicriteria sorting method : DCMSort. Omega, 132, 103224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2024.103224

Mirowska, A., & Arsenyan, J. (2025). The a(I) team: Effects of human‐likeness and conformity to gender stereotypes on initial trust and willingness to work with an ai teammate. Journal of Organizational Behavior, job.70009. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70009

Moshtari, M., & Schleper, M. C. (2025). Supervisors’ power sources and doctoral students’ working conditions : A qualitative study of doctoral supervision in a developing country. Studies in Higher Education, 50(9), 2030‑2047. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2408667

Rouquet, A. (2025). L’importation de la logistique en France dans les années 1960 : Le rôle clef de l’IFTIM et de Daniel Dagallier. Logistique & Management, 33(3), 169‑187. https://doi.org/10.1080/12507970.2025.2529346

Schyns, B., Lagowska, U., & Kim, D. (2025). A blessing or a curse? The paradoxical effect of colleagues’ social support on the relationship between daily abusive supervision, rumination, and exhaustion. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 1‑15. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2025.2571738

Schyns, B., Lester, G. V., & Hammond, M. M. (2025). An exploration of romance of leadership in times of crisis : Replication and extension of theory. Journal of Management Scientific Reports, 3(2), 119‑150. https://doi.org/10.1177/27550311251314406

Wiart, L., Andre, C., Thenot, M., & Befort, N. (2025). Stratégies hégémoniques dans le secteur de la gestion des déchets : Filières REP et instrumentalisation des acteurs de l’ESS. Revue Française de Gestion, 51(324), 39‑58. https://shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-francaise-de-gestion-2025-5-page-39?lang=fr

Zhang, C., Z. Qiu, H.H. Zhao, M. Yang, W. Chen, Y. Ma, “Harnessing the Potential of Workday Design: The Sequencing of Task Difficulty and Its Implications for Workday Well‐Being and Performance”, Personnel Psychology, May 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12685

2023-24

• Research Talk – Thursday and Friday, 21-22 December 2023, Rouen Campus: Future of Our Research Work at North American Top-tier Management Journals, a paper development workshop led by Professor Riki Takeuchi.
• Research Incubator #1 – Friday, 2nd February 2024, Paris Campus & Online, hybrid session.
  • 9:30 – 10 :30 am: Daicy VAZ – PhD 1st paper presentation- “Developing a Futuristic Business Model with sustainable AI: A bibliometric and Systematic Literature Review approach”
  • 10 :30– 11:15 am: Agata MIROWSKA – “Techno-Isolation: Scale Development”
  • 11:15– 12 :15 am: Dhruv SINGH – PhD Proposal presentation: “Navigating the New Frontiers of Workplace Communication: Cultural Context, Mindset, and the Role of AI-based Technology”
  • 2– 12 :45 pm: Helena GONZALEZ-GOMEZ – “Gossip, Status, and Change in Organizations” 2:45– 3 :30 pm: Grace XU & Helen DU – “Sales FDI Project Location Choices”
  • 3 :30– 4:15 pm: Hae-Jung HONG – “Defeating Habit and Be Original: A Mixed-Method Approach to International Experience and Creativity”
  • 4:15– 4:45pm: Brian KIM – “The bottom-up effect on team leader ethical leadership through team member moral motivational process: The moderating role of moral courage”
• Research Talk – Wednesday, 6 March 2024 Rouen Campus & online (hybrid session) 
  Definition and purpose of meta-analysis, Notable examples of application, Reading and interpreting meta-analyses.
   
• Research Talk – Wednesday, 6 March 2024 Reims Campus & online (hybrid session): Kevin Rockmann (George Mason University’s Costello College of Business).
• Research Talk – Thursday, 7 March 2024 (in person only), Rouen Campus
  • Morning (Techniques)- in person only: Research question formation, Data collection, evaluation, and coding procedures, Mean effects analysis, Meta-analytic regression analysis, Meta-analytic structural equation modelling
  • Afternoon (Hands-on Practice)- in person and hybrid: Practical exercises in data collection, evaluation, and coding procedures (in person), Application of mean effects analysis (in person), Emily’s closing speech (hybrid, open to all faculty).
• Research Incubator #2 – Thursday, 25 April 2024, Rouen campus and Online, (hybrid session): Florian Schuberth, an Assistant Professor at the Chair of Product-Market Relations at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Future of Leadership Sub Area

• Conference – Wednesday to Friday April 10-12, Reims Campus: Mini-Conference on Leadership and Its Challenges. Furthermore, the event include 18 oral paper presentations of invited projects as well as a methodological workshop.

Future of Knowledge Sub Area

• Conference – Wednesday, 19 June 2024, Paris Campus: The Current and Future Challenges of Indicators in Higher Education. Christine Musselin (Sciences Po Paris) will deliver the keynote address followed by 6 presentations of academic papers. The day will end with a round table (in French) at 4:30 pm about “the future of indicators: between sovereignty and sustainability” with Frédérique Vidal (EFMD/former French Minister of Higher Education), Jérome Caby (DG of FNEGE), Bernard Ramanantsoa (former dean of HEC) and Aurélien Acquier (professor at ESCP Business school).

Pedagogy

Examples of courses linked to this Area include: "Deep Dive in Leadership", "Leadership and Organisations Development", "Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World" (e-learning module), "Human Resource Management", "Human Resource Management" (e-learning module), "Digital Transformation and Change Management", "Management and Organisation", ""Designing and Managing Organisations in a Digital Era", "Designing and Managing Organisations in a Digital Era" (e-learning module), "Agile Business Models and Organisations"

Industry events

Aurélien Rouquet and Jean-Baptiste Suquet win the first prize of the SYNTEC Awards 2021

Their paper "Knocking sovereign customers off their pedestals? When contact staff educate, amateurize, and penalize deviant customers", was published in Human Relations. A summary of their research is featured in Harvard Business Review (French edition)

Participation of Jean-Baptiste SUQUET in a debate with practitioners on managing customers with deviant behaviors

The aim of this webinar was to present the results of the study conducted in collaboration with Aurélien ROUQUET, in partnership with the AMARC (association pour le management de la réclamation client), and recently awarded recognition by Syntec Conseil and the FNEGE

Chairs, partners, and funded projects

The area includes two externally funded research projects: Vista-AR (Interreg, EU), whose goal is to analyse the impact of augmented reality on heritage sites, and Transformation of Retail after COVID (Grand Reims), whose is goal is to anticipate the mutations of retail in the post-pandemic era.

Rachel Beaujolin gives her feedback on a unique pedagogical experience, the Deep Dive into Leadership, an initiative designed in partnership with FERRERO. Watch video

Dealing with dark leadership behaviour

Birgit SCHYNS's paper 'Shady Strategic Behavior: Recognizing Strategic Followership of Dark Triad Followers' co-authored with Barbara WISSE (University of Groningen and Durham University Business School) and Stacey SANDERS (University of Groningen) published in June, 2019 in Academy of Management Perspectives, have been relayed in Academy of Management Insight online magazine dedicated to managers and business leaders and several other media (e.g., theHRDIRECTOR,  companiesdigest.com,  workplaceinsight.net, employer news, Management today)

How To Awaken Dormant Leaders

Based on her paper "Does thinking of myself as leader make me want to lead? The role of congruence in self-theories and implicit leadership theories in motivation to lead" co-authored with Tina Kiefer (Warwick University) and Roseanne Foti (Virginia Tech) in Journal of Vocational Behavior, Birgit Schyns proposes five actions to find, wake up and develop dormant leaders in organisations. Discover them on NEOMA Blog

How digitalisation and big data change the jobs of tomorrow

In a FNEGE video, Riadh Manita shares his analysis of how jobs will evolve with the rise of big data and digitalization, with a focus on the finance, consulting, and audit industries. Watch video