The joint IFGE/ESDES/LEFI lecture series for 2008-2009, led in tandem with the EMLYON Business School, the Université Catholique de Lyon and Université Lyon II, will focus on “economics and the managership of intangible assets”.
Zied Guedri and Xavier Hollandts publish in Corporate Governance: An international Review, (vol. 16, iss.5, p.460-474) a research paper entitled "Beyond dichotomy: the curvilinear impact of employee ownership on firm performance".
Pierre-Yves GOMEZ was invited to Milan to speak at the annual Italian business leaders’ open day hosted by SDA Bocconi School of Management on 21 October 2008. His lecture was focused on changing patterns in French corporate governance.
The Macif University Campus hosted a conference for its resident executive and senior management staff on the topic: "Repurposing entrepreneurship: hype or reality?" ». EMLYON debated with three other elite grandes écoles: INSEAD, HEC, & the Essec. Pierre-Yves GOMEZ discoursed on "governance in social economics as a paradigm shift".
The article "Institutional determinants of the extent to which new technologies diffuse: a comparative study of prefabricated elements 1945-1965" by Eva Boxembaum and Thibault Daudigeos has been accepted to Best Paper proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2008.
The thesis authored by INSEEC research professor and IFGE associate lecturer Xavier Hollandts exploring the effects of employee profit-sharing schemes on business performance has been awarded the Equity prize.
Cambridge University Press, coauthored with Harry Korine, resident researcher affiliated to the London Business School. This analysis demonstrates how enterprise and entrepreneur intertwine with democracy to shape the fabric of contemporary liberal society.
Bertrand Valiorgue defended his doctoral thesis on the role of middle-managers in the voluntary internalization of negative externality. The jury unanimously awarded summa cum laude honours.
On 12 June 2008, the doctoral research work submitted by Bertrand Valiorgue was assessed by a jury composed of professors Brabet, Reynaud, Perez, Carré and Gomez, and also enrolling Pascale Levet, head of the Adecco Group business intelligence panel.
Pierre-Yves Gomez was a speaker at the 17 March 2008 seminar entitled "Institutionalist stances on CSR" featured in the ANR 2006-2010 programme "Perspectives for a CSR-driven regulatory framework" coordinated by Julienne Brabet (Paris XII University - Management Research Institute; IRG).
