People and Organisations research seminars

Aware of the increasing importance that a continuous flow of research output has for our academic life, NEOMA People and Organisations department has developed a plan for a series of collective activities oriented to strengthen our research production.

Our seminars’ goal is to have a workshop format rather than paper presentations. As one part of these workshops, we regularly invite external speakers to give a talk on their research projects. In doing so, we hope that these days provide an opportunity for each professor in the P&O department to receive constructive feedback and guidance from others, build connections between one another, and spark a continued dialogue around topics of joint interest.

In the past two years, we have seen tangible benefits associated with these seminars. Our seminars have helped professors in our department to publish papers in various journals, get acceptance into conferences, and attain research funding. Moreover, many of our colleagues have reported that the seminars have helped them started new collaborations and advance on their ongoing research projects.

The goal: We aim to offer a space for friendly advice and comments to research projects at different stages (from idea conception to editorial process) in both English and French and using all kinds of methodologies.

The logistics: The seminars are organised once a month and last either half-day or the whole day. Our typical agenda includes one hour of Challenge and Advise (where professors discuss research challenges they need advice on) and 2 or 3 research project presentations that may include one external speaker.

Organisers: Nishani BOURMAULT (nishani.bourmault@neoma-bs.fr), Helena GONZÁLEZ GÓMEZ (helena.gonzalez@neoma-bs.fr) and Shiva TAGHAVI (shiva.taghavi@neoma-bs.fr).

2025-26 Seminars

(updated regularly)

Friday September 12th, 2025, 10h00 to 15h15 - Paris Campus (R513) or Zoom

• 10h00-11h30: Challenge & Advise
• 10h30-11h30: Emma Lei JING, NEOMA-BS - "Crafting Safety: Paradox Construction in a Complex Institutional Environment" - Paper Development Programme
• 11h30-12h15: Shiva TAGHAVI, NEOMA-BS - "Framing External Activist Messages to Spark (or Stall) Insider Social Change Agents: A Social Identity Perspective"
• 12h00-14h00: Lunch*
• 14h00-15h30: Publishing Journey - Helena Gonzalez-Gomez, Alfonso CARBALLO, Elise YU, Alan ZHAODONG

Friday October 24th, 2025, 10h00 to 16h in Paris (513) and on Zoom

• 10h00-10h30: Challenge & Advise
• 10h30-12h00: Elisa Operti, ESSEC - " Agency and the Micro-Foundations of Network Resilience: Insights from “Mafia Capitale” (2012–2015) (with F. Capo, R. Maiolini, F. Rullani) - Presentation and Roundtable
• 12h00-14h00: Lunch (please confirm your place for lunch)
• 14h00-14h45: Elisa Operti, ESSEC - Publishing in the Journal of Management
• 15h00-16h00: Eric Lou, NEOMA Business School - " Workplace Inauthenticity Increases Organizational Cynicism: Multimethod and Multicultural Evidence”

Friday November 14th, 2025, 10h00 to 15h30 in Paris (513) and on Zoom

• 10h00-10h30: Challenge & Advise
• 10h30-12h00: Tessa MELKONIAN, EM Lyon - " Respecting the law of energy conservation: Sustainable HR practices to support innovation intensification” (with Angela de Oliveira) - Presentation and Roundtable
• 12h00-14h00: Lunch (please confirm your place for lunch)
• 14h00-15h00: Dimitri VASILJEVIC, NEOMA Business School (with Helena GONZÁLEZ GÓMEZ) - “Investigating the role of surprise expression on concessions in negotiation”
• 15h00-15h45: Research News and Conferences - Sharing of research news about OB/OT/HR topics, including calls for conferences and symposiums

Monday December 15th,  2025, 10h00 to 16h30 - Paris Campus (R513) and Zoom

• 10h00-10h30: Challenge & Advise
• 10h30-12h00: Olli-Pekka KAUPPILA, Hanken School of Economics - Presentation and Roundtable - “Triadic Attentional Processing and Build-Up of Joint Attention in Emergent Strategic Initiatives”
• 12h15-14h00: Lunch (please confirm your place for lunch)
• 14h30-15h30: Hae-Jung HONG, NEOMA Business School - “Person-Perception Process and its Influence on Social Interpersonal Dynamics in Global Work: Multiculturals vs. Monoculturals.”
• 15h30-16h30: Alfonso CARBALLO, NEOMA Business School - “Navigating between the thick and thin ideologies of Populism: How Multinational Enterprises Respond Across the Global North and South”

Friday 09.01.2026- Almudena Cañibano (ESCP)

Friday 06.02.2026-Ignasi Marti (Esade)

Friday 06.03.2026- David Sluss (ESSEC Business School)

Friday 03.04.2026-Jingjing Yao (IESEG)

Thursday 30.04.2026-Raina Brands (UCL)

Thursday 21.05.2026-Andreas Richter (University of Cambridge, Judge Business School)

2024-25 Seminars

• Ronald CLARKE, Associate Professor, Rennes School of Business, France, Presentation + Round Table – “A Social Network Approach to Dyadic Team System Effectiveness: Optimal Balance of Strong Ties Within and Between Teams ”
• Meeting Our Faculty: Eric LOU, new Assistant Professor People and Organisations, NEOMA-BS
• Sharing Editor’s Experience: Sirio LONATI, Associate Professor, People and Organisations, NEOMA-BS, and Associate Editor and Methods Advisor for the Leadership Quarterly.
• Meeting Our Faculty: Zhaodong (Alan) QIU, new Assistant Professor People and Organisations, NEOMA-BS
• Farai KATOMA, PhD Student, NEOMA-BS – “Unveiling Barriers to Collaboration: Technology Developers’ Perceptions of Healthcare Practitioners’ Needs.”
• Carine CHEMIN-BOUZIR, Associate Professor, NEOMA-BS – “Reflexivity through Lacan’s four discourses: Using “lack” to operationalize practical moral reflexivity when teaching Bachelor students”
• Sarah ROBINSON, Full Professor, Rennes School of Business – Presentation + Round Table – “The social dynamics of nurse – doctor collaboration and nurses’ professional and relational strategies of power and influence”
• Karoline Strauss (ESSEC). Presentation + Round Table: “Complementarity in future selves”
• Behnoosh LAHOOTI (NEOMA PhD candidate) – “Between coping and resistance: Exploring how Iranian immigrant women respond to experiences of workplace oppression”
• Francesca NANNETTI, Helena GONZÁLEZ-GÓMEZ, Shiva TAGHAVI (NEOMA) – “DEI Practices, Impostor Syndrome, and Advice Networks”
• Laurie Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Work and Organisation, Nottingham University Business School, UK and Editor-in-Chief of Work, Employment & Society. Presentation + Round Table: “Working it Out: reflections on a project into women, work and retirement”
• Publication Journey:
  
  • Emma Lei Jing (NEOMA): Organization Studies
  • Jean-Baptiste Suquet (NEOMA): Work, Employment & Society and Journal of Business Ethics
  • Shota Kawasaki (NEOMA): Journal of Management
• Ioanna CONSTANTIOU, Full Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark – Presentation + Round Table, “Organizations As Digital Enactment Systems: The Progressive Replacement Of Humans By AI In Organizational Decision Making“
• Alfonso CARBALLO, NEOMA-BS – “Entrepreneurship in a socially disrupted world: How Extreme and Opposing Divisions Destabilize Women’s Entrepreneurial Decisions”
• Lauren KEATING, EM Lyon, Presentation + Round Table – “Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed-Methods Exploration”
• Jean-Baptiste SUQUET, NEOMA-BS – “The role of place for meta-organizing. The case of the creation of a retail development center”
• Emma Lei JING, NEOMA-BS – “Crafting Safety: Evolution of Paradoxes in a Complex Institutional Environment”
• Najma SAIDANI and Laura RUIZ SANTIAGO, NEOMA-BS – “Unveiling the Role of IT Identity in the Technostress Process: A Self-regulation Perspective”
• Amit NIGAM, Bayes Business School – “Professions and the Prioritization of Societal Goals in Organizations”
• Editors Talk/Round Table: BMJ Leader(a journal targeted at clinical leaders in health care with a focus on leadership and management)
• Jeeny SEO, NEOMA-BS – “Embracing Challenges Posed by AI with Mentoring Senior Employees’ Reactions to Organizational Pressures to Adopt AI”
• Nishani BOURMAULT, NEOMA – “Experiencing the Contours of One’s Professional Expertise: The Back-and-Forth Journey of Doctors Exposed to Global Surgery”
• Jos AKKERMANS, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Presentation + Round Table – “Careers: Agenda for Future Research”
• Paper Development Programme – Francesca NANNETTI, NEOMA – “Navigating the DEI Paradox” – 2nd presentation
• Aicha SERGHINI-IDRISSI, NEOMA-BS - “Mapping the Managerial Mind: How do managers construct meaning around neurotechnologies before and after embodied engagement with tools like neurofeedback and EEG-based brain mapping?”
• Rita MOTA, ESADE Business School – Presentation + Round Table – “Content Moderation and Human Rights: What Words Do (And What Platforms Should Do With Them)”
• Behnoosh LAHOOTI, NEOMA-BS - “Between two homes: Home-making practices of Iranian women in US workplaces.”
• Emmanuela MANDALAKI, NEOMA-BS - “Entangling care and justice in practice: the case of volunteers working with homeless populations in Buenos Aires”
• Alfonso CARBALLO, NEOMA-BS - “An Institutional Perspective on the Implications of the Mexican Drug War for Family Dynamics”