Strategy and Entrepreneurship Research Seminar Series is organised by the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department at NEOMA Business School. The Seminar Series aims to generate intellectual insights by interacting with top scholars in the field.

The seminars are open to all NEOMA faculty and external scholars.

For registration or further questions, please contact Margherita CORINA, margherita.corina@neoma-bs.fr ou Jihye YEO, jihye.yeo@neoma-bs.fr.

2024-25 Seminars

(updated regularly)

Thursday 26 September – Paris Campus

• Franco Malerba (Emeritus Professor, Bocconi University) – “Pre-Entry Experience and the Heterogeneity of Startup Performance in Nascent Industries: Evidence from the Artificial Intelligence Industry, 1980–2014”.

Thursday 14 November, 10:30-12:30 – Paris Campus, rooms 203b and 204

• 10:30 – 11:00 : Welcome coffee
• 11:00 – 12:30 :  Research seminar – Professor Nicolai Foss, Copenhagen Business School – “CEO Divorce, Psychological Stress, and Firm Performance: Gender Effects and Consequences for Wages and Mobility” (paper forthcoming).
• 12:30 – 13:30 : Lunch on campus

Friday 31 January, 10:30-12:30 – Paris campus, rooms 205 and 206

• 10:30 – 11:00: Welcome coffee
• 11:00 – 12:30: Research seminar – Professor Anne Jacqueminet, ESSEC Business School – “Environmental Disclosure and Analysts’ Recommendations” (paper co-authored with Emanuele Bettinazzi).
• 12:30 – 13:30: Lunch on campus

Thursday, 6 February, 9:30-22:00 – Paris campus, rooms 302a and 302b

Research workshop co-organised with NEOMA area of excellence, The World we Want.

In collaboration with Women Entrepreneurship research alliance, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, and Symbiosis international University, Pune, India.

The workshop will bring together prominent scholars as well as practitioners to build a constructive dialogue on the present and the future of entrepreneurship research and practice in the development arena.

Sub themes include:

• Social entrepreneurship and informal entrepreneurship
• Gender/women entrepreneurship in emerging and transition economies
• Digital entrepreneurship for development

Speakers

• Sophie Bacq, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Coca-Cola Foundation Chair in Sustainable Development at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. Field Editor at Journal of Business Venturing.
• Samuel Adomako, Associate Professor of Strategy at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Associate editor of Business Strategy and the Environment.
• The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group, funds, supports and accelerates the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world.
• Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), a pioneering impact investment group entirely dedicated to financing and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Organising committee

• Rose Bote, Bisrat Misganaw

Thursday 13^th March, 10:30-16:00 – Paris campus, rooms 204 and 205

• 10:30 – 11:00 Welcome coffee
• 11:00 – 13:00 Editor’s Talk

Professor Mario Daniele Amore, Bocconi University, Associate Editor for Management Science and the Journal of Corporate Finance

and Professor Andrea Fosfuri, Bocconi University, Associate Editor for Management Science and member of the editorial board for the Strategic Management Journal.

• 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch in campus
• 14:00-16:00 One to one meetings with the Associate Editors

If you are a scholar outside NEOMA please fill in this form

Thursday, 3 April, 10:30-12:30 – Paris campus*

• 10:30 – 11:00 : Welcome coffee
• 11:00 – 12:30 : Research seminar: Professor Mickaël Buffart, Stockholm School of Economics. “Riding the Waves or Swimming Against the Tide: How Firms Manage Forces of Regulatory and Technological Compliance.” (manuscript forthcoming), co-authored with Karl Wennberg and Åke Freij
• 12:30 – 13:30 : Lunch in campus

*If you plan to attend the session on Teams, please let us know to order the food accordingly.

Speaker coming soon (dates to be confirmed)

• Tomi Laamanen (Universität St.Gallen)

2023-24 seminars

• Philipp Meyer-Doyle (Insead)
• Grégoire CROIDIEU (EM Lyon) – Navigating the Policy-Accountability Gap: Substitutive Decoupling and the Cultural Production of Compliance in Disaster Risk Reduction.
• Anne-Sophie FERNANDEZ, Ph.D. (University of Montpellier & Montpellier Research in Management)
• Joao ALBINO-PIMENTEL, (University of South Carolina-USA) – “Undercover Operations? MNE ‘Concealed Distancing’ in Hostile Geopolitical Environments”
• Sandeep Pillai (Bocconi University)