How to build a better world ?
“Inclusion” “sustainability” “well-being”, the occurrence of these words and the concepts they encompass has grown in society and businesses in recent years. The UNO even identified “17 Global Goals to transform our world“. Research in this AE aims to support firms, organisations, and institutions in their strategies to achieve a better future.
“The AE promotes interdisciplinary research tackling the grand challenges of sustainability and sustainable development. We are a diverse and open-minded group of researchers offering opportunities for exchange and development to colleagues working within different methodological paradigms. We organize seminars, research workshops, writing retreats, conferences and other academic events with the participation of leading international researchers in our field” Paolo Antonetti, Director of the World We Want AE.
2025
Abdellatif, A., Boncori, I., & Mandalaki, E. (2025). Exploring academic careers through the metaphors of doors and ladders : A relational, feminist, and vulnerable approach. Organization, 32(8), 1178‑1198. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084241276642
Allal-Chérif, O., Gallego-Nicholls, J. F., Carrilero-Castillo, A., & Sendra Garcia, F. J. (2025). Stepping out of the innovation race to embrace outnovation : Fostering well-being and responsible consumption through sustainability, simplicity, authenticity, and nostalgia. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 210, 123906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123906
Ayoub, M., Befort, N., & Matt, M. (2025). From niches to global value chains: The role of firms’ collaborative strategies in the bioeconomy. Business Strategy and the Environment, 34(2), 2571‑2588. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4107
Ayrapetyan, D., Befort, N., & Hermans, F. (2025). From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system’s dynamics. Research Policy, 54(1), 105130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105130
Boix-Cots, D., Ishizaka, A., Fuente, A. D. L., & Pujadas, P. (2025). Beyond the combustion motor : A MCDM-based approach to analyse the alternative fuel vehicle decision from the customers’ point of view. Journal of Cleaner Production, 486, 144564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144564
Bonnin, G., & Goudey, A. (2025). Creating a hospitable hospital: How colors, music, and scent in the servicescape reduce rumination and enhance the patient waiting experience. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 128, 104155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104155
Borraz, S. (2025). Reimagining sustainable tourism with Descola’s ontologies. Annals of Tourism Research, 112, 103954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2025.103954
Brieger, S. A., Sonbol, D., Morales, C., Alsaieri, H., Fu, Y., & De Clercq, D. (2025). When crisis hits home : Cultural and gendered realities of entrepreneurial parenting in difficult times. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 32(7), 1499‑1529. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-08-2024-0390
Ciano, M. P., Peron, M., Panza, L., & Pozzi, R. (2025). Industry 4.0 technologies in support of circular Economy: A 10R-based integration framework. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 201, 110867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2025.110867
De Freyman, J., Boussaguet, S., & Giacomin, O. (2025). Résilience et performance post-reprise des PME - Quelle influence en temps de crise ?: Revue française de gestion, 321(1), 41‑63. https://doi.org/10.1684/rfg.2025.71
Dubois, S. (2025). Ceremony for a shared world: Poetry amidst ecological crisis. Organization, 13505084251318977. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084251318977
Dubreuil, C., & Borraz, S. (2025). La consommation et l’épreuve de réalité : Comment les individus justifient-ils les limites assumées à leurs efforts de consommation face aux enjeux climatiques ? Recherche et Applications en Marketing (French Edition), 40(1), 51‑73. https://doi.org/10.1177/07673701241269070
Gautier, A., Jacqmin, J., & Poudou, J.-C. (2025). The energy community and the grid. Resource and Energy Economics, 82, 101480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2025.101480
Giacomin, O., Gundolf, K., Shinnar, R. S., Janssen, F., & Saroglou, V. (2025). Religiosity and ethical business behavior : A study on differences between catholic and protestant students. Management international, 29(1), 96‑105. https://doi.org/10.59876/a-6g27-nte1
Gomez, P. (2025). The role of processing-related labels in consumer identification and choice of ultra-processed foods. Journal of Consumer Policy, 48(4), 421‑444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-025-09595-0
Hersugondo, H., Batu, K. L., Latan, H., Chiappetta Jabbour, C. J., & Lopes De Sousa Jabbour, A. B. (2025). Empowering public sector employees with disabilities: The impact of deia initiatives on experience, welfare, and performance confidence. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 0734371X251316597. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X251316597
Karadag, M., Gul, M., Yucesan, M., Ortiz-Barrios, M., Ishizaka, A., & Khan, J. (2025). Evaluation of Green Deal compliance performance with a hybrid comparative multi-attribute decision model. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 98, 102163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2025.102163
Karanasios, S., Senyo, P. K., Zorina, A., & Effah, J. (2025). Digital bricolage and its limits: How microenterprises undertake digitalization in resource-constrained environments. Information Systems Research, isre.2023.0193.
https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2023.0193
Krishankumar, R., Sundararajan, D., Ishizaka, A., & Ravichandran, K. S. (2025). A double hierarchy fuzzy decision approach for solar farm ranking sites in India. Energy Economics, 152, 108993.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108993
Lahooti, B., Mandalaki, E., & Reiss, E. L. K. (2025). Hairy tales and gender troubles: Conceptualizing haircutting as an act of feminist resistance. Organization, 13505084251383289.
https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084251383289
Le, T. D., & Trinh, T. (2025). Local newspaper closures and suppliers’ investment efficiency. The European Journal of Finance, 31(12), 1529‑1550. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2025.2513500
Leite, E., Koporcic, N., & Markovic, S. (2025). Corporate sustainability reporting : Shifting from optional due diligence to mandatory duty. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 34(4), 2048‑2055. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12753
Lhuillery, S., Befort, N., & Atmane, S. (2025). Biotechnology or bioeconomy : Six of one and half a dozen of the other? Ecological Economics, 229, 108470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108470
Li, R., Du, J., Wu, J., & Chen, X. (2025). Government carbon reduction policies and the shift to green lifestyles: The role of innovation, incentive, driving and economic effect. Journal of Environmental Management, 374, 124056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124056
Li, R., Li, Y., Chen, X., Wu, J., Song, M., & Zhou, Y. (2025). Enterprise performance empowered by heterogeneous environmental laws : A digital economy. Energy Economics, 142, 108187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108187
Lobbedez, E., Pascucci, S., & Panico, T. (2025). Theorizing waste as a technique of power in capitalistic stakeholder relations. Journal of Management Studies, joms.13190. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13190
Mandalaki, E. (2025). A feminist ethics of care for the embodied organizing of solidarity: Lessons from the refugee crisis in greece. Journal of Business Ethics, 202(2), 341‑355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-05974-2
Manthiou, A., Klaus, P., Luong, V. H., & Tarquini-Poli, A. (2025). Exploring regenerative tourism: Consumer perspectives on inspiration, legacy, and morality. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 42(1), 118‑132. https://doi.org/10.1080/10548408.2024.2437536
Mehdizadeh, M., Kroesen, M., & Peron, M. (2025). How zero-emission flights might redefine travel behavior. Journal of Cleaner Production, 494, 145046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145046
Monfared, M., Marandi, F., & Sauer, P. C. (2025). Achieving sustainable development by integrating circular economy principles into solid waste management: A systematic literature review and research agenda. International Journal of Production Economics, 109787.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109787
Paillé, P. (2025). Green human resource practices for individual environmental performance : A meta‐review. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne Des Sciences de l’Administration, 42(2), 288‑301. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.1768
Panza, L., & Peron, M. (2025). The role of carbon tax in the transition from a linear economy to a circular economy business model in manufacturing. Journal of Cleaner Production, 492, 144873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.144873
Peschel, A. O., Jacobsen, L. F., Salnikova, E., Banovic, M., & Grunert, K. G. (2025). The power of diversity in online communities. Marketing Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11002-025-09792-4
Starzyk, A., & Bauer, J. F. (2025). Three dilemmas of disabled employee voice. Journal of Business Ethics, 201(4), 941‑967. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-05964-4
Tao, R., Wu, J., & Zhao, H. (2025). Interfirm spread of corporate social responsibility: The role of overlapping directors. Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 25(7), 1755‑1784. https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-05-2024-0310
Xu, Y., Sahnoun, M., Abdelaziz, F. B., & Louis, A. (2025). Multimodal transportation network for bio-waste collection : The case of Normandy. Annals of Operations Research, 353(1), 225‑250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-024-06218-8
Yu, H., Smith, A. N., & Dimotakis, N. (2025). Dollars and domestic duties: A 22‐year study of income, home labor, and gendered career outcomes in dual‐earner couples. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 46(5), 662‑684. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2879
Zhang, Z. (2025). Exploring the nexus : Climate change concerns, renewable energy, and carbon emissions. Journal of Environmental Management, 376, 124413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124413
Zhou, Y., Li, X., Wu, Z., Wu, J., & Li, H. (2025). Green bonds and intelligent manufacturing: Evidence from listed firms in China. Economics Letters, 247, 112150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.112150
Zhu, J., Wang, T., Chen, X., Wu, J., & Li, T. (2025). Assessing carbon shadow prices and the role of green technology innovation: Insights from EU countries. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 37(13), 4629‑4644. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2025.2467923
2023-24
- Paper development workshop – Thursday, 9 November 2023, Paris Campus: A paper development workshop led by the JPIM Editors-in-Chief, Charles Noble and Jelena Spanjol.
- Research Talk -Tuesday, 28 November, Paris Campus: Research talk by Gerarda Caso: Curbing Excessive Red and Processed Meat Consumption: insights from two studies.
- Conference – Sunday to Tuesday, 25-27 August 2024, Reims Campus, Room TBC. Sport, Business and Society Conference.
The World We Want – Inclusion, Equality, Diversity Sub Area
- Editor’s Talk – Thursday, 3 October, 2023: Martyna Sliwa Professor of Business Ethics and Organisation Studies as well as Associate Dean for Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability at Durham University Business School. As Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Management Learning, Martyna has shared her rich editorial experiences, offer key facts and information in relation to the journal’s objectives with regards to potential submissions to Management Learning.
- Editor’s Talk – Thursday, 23 November 2023, Online: Frank den Hond, Professor in Management and Organisation at Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland), and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics Quarterly.
- Editor’s Talk – Thursday, 25 January 2024, Online: Prof. Edward Freeman University Professor, Olsson Professor, and Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is best known for his award-winning book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Pitman, 1984; and reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 2010).
- Writing Retreat – Thursday 2nd- Friday 3rd May, 2024, Reims Campus: Emmanouela Mandelaki has organized this 1.5-day writing retreat focusing writing academic work through engagement with diverse writing patterns and methods. This year, host Silvia Gherardi, Senior Professor of Sociology of Organization at the University of Trento, and Jenny Helin, Associate Professor of Organizations at Uppsala University.
The World We Want – Finance for Good
- Conference – Thursday 23rd May 2024, Paris Campus: conference on Sustainable Finance, Keynote Speakers: Professor Vikas Agarwal, Distinguished Professor at Georgia State University, and Professor Stefano Lovo, Professor of Finance at HEC Paris.
Pedagogy
Examples of courses linked to this sub-Area include: "Sustainable Finance", "Sustainable Reporting", "Managing Social Responsibility, Governance & Ethics", "Business Ethics", "Business Ethics" (e-learning module), "Equity Diversity and Inclusion", "Corporate Social Responsibility", "Circular Economy: Food Economics, Agribusiness and Sustainability", "Act for a sustainable transition” "Diversity & Sustainability Management in the Luxury Industry", "Ethics and Sustainability in the Real Estate Industry", Economics of the Ecological Transition", "Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship” "The Social Impact of Globalisation and innovation", "Sustainable transition seminar", "Innovation in Nutrition & Health” "UN Day and International Climate Negotiations"
Hedia ZANNAD and Pierre LESCOAT write contributions for a book on quantifying equality in the workplace. By contributing to such a book, Pierre Lescoat, Accounting, Control & Legal Affairs Department, and Hedia Zannad, People & Organisations Department, demonstrate the interest of NEOMA professors, as a community of researchers, in transdisciplinary research that addresses today's social issues. Learn more >
Aloïs Kanyinda, co-authored of a collective book awarded by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV): an output of UNIVIGNE, a multidisciplinary project on the evolution of the Champagne industry funded by the Grand Est Region, the book has received an award from OIV. Alois's contribution focuses on the impact of climate change on wine management in Champagne-Ardenne
Chairs, partners, and funded projects
The AE includes three externally funded research projects:
- Is Covid-19 Gender-Blind? Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry (The Europlace Institute of Finance – Louis Bachelier Foundation) , whose goal is to understand the relationships between gender, personal life circumstances and performance at work among hedge funds managers
- Blueprint to a Circular Economy (Interreg, EU), whose is goal is to test innovative solutions to accelerate the transition to a circular economy
- AgroBioEst (Grand Est Region), whose goal is to study the transition toward sustainable agriculture via bioeconomy
The AE also integrates the Chair in Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development, funded by Grand Reims, Paris-Reims Foundation and the Marne Chamber of Commerce. Created in 2012, the Chair studies how the bioeconomy can contribute to shift towards the ecological transition
« Barbecue gate » : oui, les hommes sont moins écolos et il faut que ça change
Sophie Raynaud, PhD student and Research Assistant at NEOMA wrote a tribune published in Les Echos Start (13 sept.2022). Read online here (in French)
When environmental innovations are threatened by usages: the example of bioplastics
Based on what criteria can we be sure that innovation is environmentally beneficial? When does innovation reduce the consumption of resources? At what point does it limit our impact on ecosystems? Nicolas Béfort, director of the NEOMA BS Chair in Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development, elucidates the question. Read the article
What is a label?
Nicolas Béfort discussed the definition of a label in answer to L'Avant JT's Question of the Day on France 3
Hydrogen for the future?
Valery MICHAUX shares his analysis in “Hydrogène vert produit et utilisé localement, une autre vision du futur”, The Conversation, 01/06/2021

Key Facts
- 80+ research projects
- 20+ internal and external grants
- 50+ professors
- Chair in Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development
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