Course description: https://uclouvain.be/cours-2020-LLSMA2002

Research Methods (3 parts) – 10 ECTS

If you register and pass for the block of 3 courses => 10 credits

If you choose and pass the courses separately => 3 credits each

Part 1: Logic and Algorithm

Philippe CHEVALIER

Part 2: Qualitative Research Methods

Alain DECROP

Part 3: Quantitative Research Methods

Assaad EL AKREMI

Epistemology of Management – 5 ECTS

Prof. Matthieu de NANTEUIL

Registration: secretariat-lourim@uclouvain.be

Course description: https://uclouvain.be/cours-2020-LLSMA2001

Theories of Organizations in Management – 5 ECTS

Prof. Régis COEURDEROY

Course description: https://uclouvain.be/cours-2019-LLSMA2006

This schedule might change, please always check the latest verstion on https://uclouvain.be/cours-2019-LLSMA2006

PhD Day of the Doctoral School of Management 

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED

The Doctoral School in Management UCLouvain - UNamur (DSM) is pleased to invite you to the 2020 DSM PhD Day that will be held at UNamur (auditoire E13, salle polyvalente, salle C. Joset) on May 26, 2020 (from 12:00 to 18:00).

Doctoral students in management of the EDT “Ecole doctorale Sciences de gestion ULB/ULg/UMons” as well as from KULeuven and USLB are also invited to participate. We hope this will broaden the scope of the discussions and offer new collaboration opportunities.

Registration & information on our website ►

LOURIM AWARD 2019

Each year the "LouRIM Research Excellence Award" recognizes the scientific merits of an institute member for his/her outstanding contribution published in a scientific journal during the year.

This year the event will be followed by an exciting game, we reserve the surprise... 

Hotel Van der Valk - Chaussée de Mons 22, 1400 Nivelles, Belgique

Registrations are closed now. If you have any questions, please contact us via 

secretariat-lourim@uclouvain.be

Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences

The Rector of UCLouvain and the Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences announce that Mrs Kamila MOULAÏ will publicly support her dissertation, for the title of Doctor in Economics and Management Sciences of UCLouvain.

Title:

Of Moves & Humans: Expatriation Journeys that Matter

A reconstruction of the intra-organizational emancipatory project of highly qualified Self-initiated Expatriate workers: From symbolic dynamics to identity-processes: An empirical qualitative approach

Summary:

Self-initiated expatriates (SIEs), people who decide to expatriate without organisational support, are a valuable human resource for companies. Today, understanding these workers remains challenging for academic experts and management actors. Building upon both theoretical and empirical analyses, we identified the specific biases that have constrained the advancement of research in SIEs studies. In order to overcome these constraints, we dived into SIE's journeys through in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Our analyses lead to frame this autonomous form of expatriation as a departure from an organization, rather than a move to a specific destination. This radical shift in the way to investigate self-initiated expatriates enables us to grasp such mobility as an emancipatory journey. We found that the decision-making process is triggered by the revival of a promise of a congruent 'talent self-conception' that workers expect to find abroad. In our fourth essay, we theorize d expatriation as a process to epitomize how workers negotiate intra-personal tensions in their everyday organizational lives to overcome adaptation challenges. Altogether, our work brings new factors into the organizational logics of the attraction and retention processes of highly qualified workers.

Center on Consumers and Marketing Strategy (CCMS)

A joint initiative of the Center for Research on Consumption and Leisure (CeRCLe, University of Namur) and
the Center of Excellence on Consumer Relations and Responsible Marketing (CERMA, LouRIM, UCLouvain)

DOCTORAL DAY

February 21, 2020
Hosted by the LouRIM at UCLouvain
Salle du Conseil - Socrate builing 
Place Cardinal Mercier
Louvain-la-Neuve

The University of Namur is hosting the 2020 edition of the Business & Society Research Seminar for PhD students and emerging scholars.

• Are you a PhD candidate or an emerging scholar conducting research on Business and Society relationships, Sustainable Business, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development Goals, Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship or a related topic?
• Do you want to discuss one of your research papers or your PhD project with leading scholars in the field to enhance your ability to write and review scholarly publications?
• Are you looking for some mentoring from leading experts or do you want to develop your academic network?

... Then we encourage you to submit your contribution !

OBJECTIVES OF THE SEMINAR

The objective of this two-day seminar is to bring together doctoral students, emerging scholars, and more experienced academics to present and discuss their research projects and receive feedback in a stimulating, developmental and friendly atmosphere. We will explore commonalities as well as differences in each other’s research approaches and themes in an inspiring, sociable, and convivial academic setting. This seminar consists in a mix of plenary sessions, paper and poster presentation sessions as well as several workshops around career development and publications strategy. All sessions will involve fellow PhD students, emerging scholars, and more experienced researchers and journal editors.

CONFERENCE THEME

“Business and the transition of society towards sustainability”

Global societal and environmental problems like climate change, inequality, and mass-migration, as well as digitalization and dematerialization of human relationships, all call for attention. Given the increasing power of business in a globalized world and the resulting societal impacts - both positive social, environmental, and political engagement and negative externalities-, there is an urgent need to scrutinize the role of business in terms of contribution to the transition of society towards sustainability. To address these critical challenges, new ways of thinking and doing are required. Therefore, there is an urgent call for research to develop bold ideas and adopt less conventional methodologies involving social sciences, management and technology.

This year’s seminar wants to explore novel approaches across the corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, and social innovation agenda to understand how the aforementioned issues might redefine responsibilities, roles and opportunities of both business and society.

KEYNOTES

Our first keynote speaker will be Prof. Jean-Pascal Gond (head of ETHOS at Cass Business School). Our second keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Thomas Roulet (University of Cambridge).

Séminaire de recherche par Pr. Florence Palpacuer, Université de Montpellier et Pr. Gregor MURRAY, Université de Montréal 

Mondialisation et chaînes de valeurs globales : penser l'activisme managérial et syndical

Depuis les 20 dernières années, la montée en puissance et la généralisation des entreprises multinationales et des chaînes de valeurs globales posent une série de question quant à la façon dont les acteurs de la régulation de l’entreprise et de la société civile portent leurs revendications à l’échelle internationale. À travers la lecture de deux textes récents proposés par Florence Palpacuer (Université de Montpellier) et Gregor Murray (Université de Montréal), ce séminaire vise à approfondir la compréhension de l’activisme des managers, syndicats et membres de la société civile dans ce contexte complexe et à penser une gestion internationale responsable.

Articles : 

Palpacuer 2019 - Chapter 11.pdf

Lévesque-Hennebert-Murray-Bourque-CSR & Worker Rights-JBE-2018.pdf

Discutants : Eric Cornuel, Marine De Ridder, Coralie Helleputte, Amélie Jacquemin

La lecture des textes est vivement recommandée afin de rendre le séminaire interactif. Les présentations et les discussions se tiendront en français.

L’inscription est gratuite, mais obligatoire.

Research seminar by Flore BRIDOUX, Rotterdam School of Management

COMPETITION, TEAM PRODUCTION, AND WELFARE: A STAKEHOLDER NARRATIVE OF CAPITALISM

Market capitalism and the traditional narrative backing it up – namely, that market competition benefits individual freedom and collective welfare – are under attack. At a time where Western societies could either reject or transform capitalism, an alternative, stakeholder narrative of capitalism is taking shape that accepts individual freedom and collective welfare as societal objectives, but sees cooperation as the main engine of welfare, rather than competition. To ground this stakeholder narrative, we propose a multi-level theory starting from the fact that organizations must solve the collective action problems plaguing team production to contribute to welfare. Based on Ostrom’s work on collective action, we argue, first, that the rules-in-use governing team production are central to explain how much welfare an economic system creates. Second, we argue that the traditional narrative, as a higher-order institution, impedes collectives to develop rules-in-use according to Ostrom’s design principles, which are governance principles collectives should adopt to sustain cooperation. Our theoretical analysis shows, on the one hand, how the traditional narrative harms both welfare and individual freedom, and, on the other hand, allows us to derive propositions that, together, offer an alternative, stakeholder narrative of how market capitalism can achieve these goals.

The Rector of UCLouvain and the Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences announce that Mrs Fanny CAMBIER will publicly support her dissertation, for the title of Doctor in Economics and Management Sciences of UCLouvain.

Title: 

Advertising Consumer Empowerment Strategies: 

An Investigation of Key Mechanisms and Success Contingencies

Summary:

Despite the growing interest in Consumer Empowerment Strategies (i.e. the democratization of internal innovation processes to consumers; CES), the failure rate of the resulting new "consumer-driven" products is sobering. Marketing communication is an important lever for the adoption of new products, but theoretical and managerial knowledge about CES advertising remains scarce. Through a series of experiments, qualitative data and expert interviews, four essays explore here how to effectively advertise CES. An exploratory study first reveals that the brand audiences’ advertising responses to “consumer-driven” claims depend (positively or negatively) on a multitude of aspects expected or signalled in marketing communication. The second essay demonstrates the signalling value of brand process transparency in inferring brand integrity because it effectively substantiates the consumer-driven claim and increases perceived empowerment. The third essay shows why and how brand audiences can challenge consumer empowerment and brand integrity when the consumer-inventor is visually present in advertising to endorse his/her product. The fourth essay examines how and why CES advertising can benefit brands suffering from poor consumer relationships in highly complex industries. By providing an in-depth understanding of the brand audiences’ responses to CES-related advertising, psychological mechanisms and success contingencies, this research contributes to both innovation and persuasion literatures. It also provides managers with guidance for developing more integrated innovation and advertising strategies.

After a master's degree in Business Engineering at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Mons 2003), Fanny worked for more than ten years as a marketing manager at Unilever, Ferrero and Mondelez International among others. Fanny is currently a PhD student at UCLouvain; as a member of the Louvain Research Institute in Management (LouRIM) and the Center of Consumers and Marketing Strategy (CCMS), her research focuses on consumer behaviour, communication of innovation practices and consumer (dis)empowerment. She has presented her research at leading international conferences, including the ACR North-America Conference and the AMS Annual Conference. The Journal of Business Research recently published an essay derived from this PhD thesis.

Swedish clothing libraries emerged as a form of countercultural resistance to textile and fashion overconsumption. While there is much interest in large for-profit and non-profit collaborative consumption efforts, there is limited research on organizations created for the purpose of social transformation. Additionally, clothing library founders’ aim of developing a countercultural market presents an additional layer of complexity because, to address social and or environmental concerns, these social entrepreneurs must convince potential consumers of the worthiness of their value proposition as most Western consumers are unaccustomed to sharing intimate items (clothing and apparel) with strangers (Albinsson and Perera, 2009; Belk, 2010). Using Austin et al.’s (2006) model of social entrepreneurship, and the research question “What opportunities and challenges surface in the development of social enterprises in the collaborative consumption sector?” we examine clothing libraries to garner insight on their operation and development.

Biography

Pia A. Albinsson is a professor of Marketing in the Walker College of Business where she holds the John W. Guffey Jr. Professorship since 2016. Her research interests are in the areas of collaborative consumption, green consumption practices, consumer activism, corporate social responsibility, advertising rhetoric, and advertising effectiveness.

Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Consumption, Marketing and Culture, Journal of Services Quarterly, Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, Journal of Consumer Marketing, European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Retailing and Distribution Management, International Wine Business Research Journal, Journal of Macromarketing, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, Psychology and Marketing, Global Journal of Business Research, and Advances in Consumer Research, among others. She has also presented her research at national and international conferences such as Academy of Marketing Science, American Academy of Advertising, American Marketing Association, Association for Consumer Research, Consumer Culture Theory, Eastern Management Association, National Business and Economics Society, Society for Consumer Psychology, Society for Marketing Advances, Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture Association and Transformative Consumer Research.

Dr. Albinsson serves on the Editorial Review Board for Journal of Consumer Marketing and regularly serves as ad hoc reviewer for European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Business and Society, Journal of Macromarketing, Journal of Marketing Management, Marketing Education Review, Marketing Theory, and many international, national and regional conference proceedings. In addition, Pia also served as Secretary for Society for Marketing Advances 2015-2018 and was the faculty advisor for the American Marketing Association ASU chapter in the Walker College of Business 2011-2016.

Dr. Albinsson received the 2016 China Studies Institute Zhi-Xing China Academic Leaders Fellowship sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE), China, June 5-June 24, 2016. She was a fellow for Society for Marketing Advances Doctoral Consortium in St. Petersburg, FL (2008) and AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium in Atlanta, GA (2009). She is a 2013 Highly Commended Award Winner for the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for her 2012 European Journal of Marketing article "Does Rhetoric Impact Advertising Effectiveness with Liking Controlled?

Prior to academia, Dr. Albinsson spent several years working in the tourism industry in Greece, Malaysia and Portugal as well as with banking and marketing in her native Stockholm, Sweden.

The Rector of UCLouvain and the Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences announce that Mr Hassan HAIDAR will publicly support her dissertation, for the title of Doctor in Economics and Management Sciences of UCLouvain.

Title:

 An Agile Feature-Driven Framework for Managing Evolving Software Product Lines »​​​​​​

Summary:

Agile Product Line Engineering is a paradigm that has emerged as a solution for responding to the need for managing changes in requirements, reducing time-to-market, promoting product quality, and decreasing development costs in software organizations. Agile Product Line (APL) approaches are the results of combining agile methods with Software Product Lines (SPL). The main goal of this thesis is to propose an efficient APL method. In general, software development methodologies consist of two integral parts. The first one is dedicated for requirements engineering and the second one is dedicated for the development process. In this thesis, we have proposed a Feature-Oriented Agile Product Line method called “Agile Framework for managing evolving Software Product Lines – AgiFPL method”. AgiFPL has been defined, designed and implemented after studying and analyzing the existent APL methodologies with the aim to take advantage of the strengths of the studied methodologies and to overcome their weaknesses. AgiFPL was proposed to address the development process part. For the requirement engineering part, we have proposed an Integrated Requirements Engineering framework for Agile Software Product Lines, which is the part that provides the syntax and semantics used for expressing the products of an APL method. The aim is to allow analysts and developers to specify requirements that precisely capture the stakeholder’s needs and intentions as well as to manage product line variabilities. Finally, this thesis proposes an assessment model called AgiPL-AM (Assessment Model for Agile Product Lines) for the assessment of the situation of agile adoption within agile product line approaches. In fact, assessing the current situation, regarding the combination of agile practices and activities with Software Product Lines, is an essential step towards a successful integration of agile methods into Software Product Lines.

LouRIM internal and informal research presentation series 

WARNING : Room change. The presentation will be held in B218 room.

Benoît Gailly  is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at UCLouvain . During this informal internal seminar, Benoît will speak about "Navigating Innovation". What are the distinctive capabilities of innovative firms, and what do we know about them?
How can we develop and diffuse rigorous and actionable knowledge to help students, executives, policy makers and entrepreneurs find their way in the innovation maze ?

A sandwich is offered to participants. 

To order your sandwich please fill in this doodle form. ►►► 

→ Sandwiches order will close on 2/3 12:00.

Research seminar by Maria de la Angelos JURADO CARABALLO, University of Malaga

More information coming soon... 

A sandwich is offered to participants. 

To order your sandwich please fill in this doodle form. ►►► 

→ Sandwiches order will close on 16/4 - 12:00

Workshop series by dr. Louis MULOTTE, Tilburg School of Economics and Management. 

Workshop 1/3 - Governance choices in organizational research

Drawing upon Organizational Learning Theory, research in strategic management traditionally argues that experience with an activity creates learning and results into improved performance and enhanced efficiency. This idea has been traditionally developed in the context of operational activities such as good manufacturing and service delivery. The purpose of this session is to examine whether this general idea of experiential learning applies in the same way in corporate development activities as in manufacturing type operational processes.

Workshop series by dr. Louis MULOTTE, Tilburg School of Economics and Management. 

Workshop 2/3 - Experiential learning and the behavioral theory of the firm

Within the strategy literature, numerous studies have examined the drivers and performance implications of a variety of corporate development activities, including internal growth, alliances, acquisitions, and divestitures. Research has considered these issues drawing numerous theories including Transaction costs economics, resources based view, organizational learning view, etc. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss what has been found on these issues and what remains to be researched in this area.  

Workshop series by dr. Louis MULOTTE, Tilburg School of Economics and Management. 

Workshop 3/3 - How to perform well on the job market

The performance feedback theory claims that organizational performance relative to pre-defined aspirations triggers organizational search, risk taking, and possibly change. The propensity to change depends on how much above or below aspirations actual performance is. Recently, studies on performance feedback have enhanced our understanding of a variety of organizational actions and processes, including internal governance mechanisms, R&D activities, new product introductions and market entry, etc. The purpose of this session is to examine whether we can use a performance feedback lens to develop an understanding of firms’ successive choices of corporate development activities. 

Dance Your Ph.D.

UCLouvain Workshop

The “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest is sponsored by AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Science. It challenges scientists to explain their research without PowerPoint slides or jargon—in fact with no talking at all.

https://www.sciencemag.org/projects/dance-your-phd

The goal of this “Dance your PhD Uclouvain” workshop is to prepare UCL PhD student to take part in this contest. It will give PhD students the opportunity to reflect upon their research.

Professors:

The workshop will be taught by Pr. R. Gomez Zuñiga and coordinated by Pr. N. Kervyn

R. Gomez Zuñiga: Trained as a contemporary dancer at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Mex.), Pr. Gomez Zuñiga has a Master in choreography. She is Professor of Dance and Choreography at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Mex.) and National member of art creators 2019-2021 (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, SNCA) (Mex.).

G. Hernandez Castro: Artist, dancer and choreographer from Brussels, G. Hernandez Castro was trained as a contemporary and folklore dancer at Academia de la Danza Mexicana INBA (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes). She has a Master in choreography from Escuela Nacional de Danza Clasica y Contemporanea INBA-CENART (Centro Nacional de las Artes).

N. Kervyn: Trained as a psychologist, Pr. N. Kervyn is Associate Professor of Marketing at LSM (UCLouvain).

Eligibility:

SSH UCL PhD students irrespective of their dance experience and level of advancements in their PhD.

Dates:

14, 15, 16, 17 & 18 December 2020

Registration is closed.

Program:

Presentation Day

In the context of Communication & Writing Skills Doctoral Course (LLSMA2007), LSM Research Master Students and PhD Candidates will present their research. 

This online doctoral event is open to DSM PhD's (1 ECTS)  and LSM academics .

Registration:

Registrations are open till 4th June included : jasmine.dewulf@uclouvain.be

Organization:

• Valérie SWAEN - valerie.swaen@uclouvain.be 

• Manuel KOLP - manuel.kolp@uclouvain.be 
   

Date: 

5 June 2020 - 9:00 AM till 12:30 PM

In order to avoid connection issues, please connect 5 min before. 
 

Venue:

Zoom metting space 

Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences

The Rector of UCLouvain and the Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences announce that Mr Vu NGUYEN HUYNH ANH will publicly support her dissertation, for the title of Doctor in Economics and Management Sciences of UCLouvain.

Title: 

“A Requirements-Driven Framework Bridging Model-Based Strategic Representations with Software Development Practices”

Summary:

Information Technology (IT) Governance is closely intertwined with Requirements Engineering. Aligning the latter with the former indeed allows proposing management rules for evaluating a software development's relevance in alignment with the organization's long-term strategy. Typically, the goal of governance of software engineering is to ensure that the results of a software development align with the strategic requirements of the organization in terms of business process support and technology adoption. Requirements-driven software development processes, such as (I-)Tropos, are using coarse-grained (i.e., high-level) and social-oriented models to drive the software life-cycle both in terms of project management and forward engineering techniques. To support the governance of software developments realized with I-Tropos in terms of business and IT alignment as well as investment decision, this thesis proposes a process framework called GI-Tropos including a meta-model formalization of relevant process elements, the process description itself as well as its application onto two examples.

The Rector of UCLouvain and the Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences announce that Mr Corentin HERICHER will publicly support her dissertation, for the title of Doctor in Economics and Management Sciences of UCLouvain.

Title: 

“Employee emotions and reactions to corporate social responsibility”

Summary:

Employee reactions to corporate social responsibility (CSR) has gained interest amongst management scholars. This body of research, labelled micro-CSR research, has mainly focused on employee attitudes and behaviors, overlooking the role of employee emotions in the process. Yet, emotions that CSR elicits are crucial antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB), including those contributing to the company’s CSR, namely OCB toward CSR. This 3-essay doctoral dissertation addresses this research gap using quantitative methodologies to study how CSR translates into other-oriented and self-oriented emotions, and how these emotions can translate into OCB toward CSR.

The first essay provides evidence that employees’ perceptions of CSR translate into anticipated guilt amongst employees for not engaging themselves into behaviors supporting CSR efforts, and foster OCB toward CSR. The second essay highlights that employees’ perceptions of CSR trigger moral elevation - an other-praising moral emotion - and OCB toward CSR; CSR thus spurs a virtuous cycle by encouraging employees to contribute to it. The third essay offers causal evidence that employees experience higher levels of organizational pride when they attribute genuine motives to their company’s CSR compared to when they attribute self-serving motives.

Overall, this dissertation contributes to micro-CSR research by stressing the key role of employee emotions in explaining employees’ reactions to perceptions of CSR. It offers empirical evidence that employees judge CSR in terms of morality by experiencing moral elevation. It also gives empirical insights that CSR-induced moral judgements not only elicit emotions targeted at the company, but also emotions targeted at oneself, such as pride. These findings highlight that CSR fulfils employee’s needs for morality and for belonging.

Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences

The Rector of UCLouvain and the Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences announce that Mrs Charlotte DE KORT will publicly support her dissertation, for the title of Doctor in Economics and Management Sciences of UCLouvain.

Title: 

“Informal knowledge networks and innovation: A case study ”

Summary:

« Recently a key trend in organizational innovation research can be found at the network level. It has been argued that due to the rapidly changing economic environment firms rely more than ever on others, hence the recent trend of network level research. Whilst most research mainly focuses on formal networks, not much attention is given yet to informal knowledge networks, yet they seem to have a significant value for firm’s organizational innovation capabilities. Furthermore, we still lack an in-depth understanding of the micro foundations in informal knowledge networks. This dissertation explores those micro foundations further. Concretely, the dissertation provides an in-depth discussion on the knowledge mechanisms as well as the orchestration role (s) and activities in informal knowledge networks using a knowledge-based view. In this regard, the dissertation has the intention to add to literature on knowledge networks, knowledge management literature as well as organizational innovation literature.

Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences

The Rector of UCLouvain and the Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences announce that Mr Michel AJZEN will publicly support her dissertation, for the title of Doctor in Economics and Management Sciences of UCLouvain.

Title: 

“Quand le "nouveau" monde du travail naturalise la flexibilité: une analyse conventionnaliste des usages du télétravail. ”

Summary:

Cherchant à comprendre comment les usages du télétravail se définissent au regard d’un ensemble de règles et normes d’organisation (une convention), nous avons développé une analyse conventionnaliste permettant d’accéder aux processus de rationalisation des acteurs.

A partir d’études de cas contrastées, notre recherche montre comment deux entreprises apportent une solution identique (introduction du travail flexible) justifiée de la même manière (nécessité de la flexibilité) afin de répondre à un problème similaire (rester efficace dans un environnement changeant). Partant de ce constat, notre analyse établit l’existence d’une croyance communément partagée sur ce qu’est une « bonne » entreprise. Cette entreprise « idéale » serait flexible, agile, adaptable, réactive et connectée. Dans ce contexte, le télétravail s'impose naturellement comme une pratique incontournable d’un « nouveau » monde du travail. Par effet miroir, les caractéristiques de cette entreprise moderne se déplacent et définissent également le « bon » travailleur.

Il ne faut toutefois y voir aucun déterminisme. La croyance est bien une construction sociale. De fait, nos résultats montrent que les usages du télétravail sont socialement construits, localement et collectivement, au regard d’une croyance que les acteurs concourent à façonner. L’entreprise flexible ne s’impose donc que parce que des acteurs y adhèrent. C’est parce que cela fait sens tant dans les sphères privée et professionnelle que dans l’articulation entre celles-ci, que ces acteurs, tantôt producteurs, tantôt consommateurs de l’entreprise flexible, se conforment à un « nouveau » monde du travail qu’ils façonnent. Au final, l’analyse conventionnaliste des usages du télétravail permet de nuancer des constats euphoriques ou alarmistes sur les effets du télétravail et de montrer comment le déploiement du « nouveau » monde du travail naturalise la flexibilité. 

Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences

The Rector of UCLouvain and the Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences announce that Mrs Roxane DE HOE will publicly support her dissertation, for the title of Doctor in Economics and Management Sciences of UCLouvain.

Title: 

“Essays on the Intention to Recreate After a Business Exit ”

Summary:

Coming soon... 

Doctoral course in Sustainable Marketing by Prof. John THØGERSEN

Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences

« Sustainable Marketing »

Content:
Theories, phenomena with a sustainable CB perspective that have been considered and research in general that has been conducted in the domain.

Programme :

Suggested additional readings

• Belz, F.-M., & Peattie, K. (2012). Sustainability Marketing. A Global Perspective (2nd ed). West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons.

• Ottman, J. (2011). The New Rules of Green Marketing: Strategies, Tools, and Inspiration for Sustainable Branding: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited.

Venue:
LLN - Doyen 21

Student can attend online if (and only if) in quarantine. Please email Laura Vecchiato if you're quanrantined and want to follow the course to get the info. 

Registrations are closed

Face to face with Prof. Luk WARLOP

BI Norwegian Business School

This face to face will take place in November 2020. Place, date and time will be announced soon.

Do you wish to discuss about your research with Luk WARLOP ? 
Just register your name in this form ►►► (form available soon)

Research Seminar by Prof. Luk WARLOP

BI Norwegian Business School

This research seminar will take place during the week 21-25 September. Place, date and time will be announced soon.

Title and abstract coming soon... 

Research Seminar by Prof. Lovasoa RAMBOARISATA

Université du Québec à Montréal 

This research seminar will take place on 6 October from 3 to 5.00 pm online.

"La responsabilité politique des entreprises: un lien manquant entre RSE et développement"

CCMS Research Seminar by Marion GARNIER, Grenoble Ecole de Management

"Smart Retailing" : Etiquettes Electroniques Connectées, Crédibilité, Atmosphère et Valeur de l’experience de shopping

Research Seminar by Géraldine SCHMIDT, IAE Paris-Sorbonne

THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON 16,17 or 18 NOVEMBER - MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PLACE & TIME WILL COME SOON

Prof. Thierry Zintz, from the Faculté des Sciences de la Motricité and the Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organization (LouRIM), invites you to celebrate his accession to the emeritus status on 2^nd October, 2020.

You can register to this event by clicking on this link before September 15.

Professors are invited to wear the toga.

Illustration: © Marie-Hélène Grégoire

Unintended Costs of Strategic Action: The Case of Firms’ Earnings Gamesmanship

Abstract: 

This paper provides a dynamic perspective on the relationship between institutional pressure and strategic action by firms. Taking as a case in point U.S. listed firms’ strategic behavior towards external expectations developed in the stock market, we develop predictions on the dynamic effects of firms’ strategic action. We test our hypotheses using data from a sample of large publicly-traded U.S. firms, and generally find support for our predictions.

Coauthor of the paper:

Jiwook Jung (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): https://ler.illinois.edu/about/faculty-staff/faculty/jung-jiwook

Join the meeting via Microsoft Teams 

Customer responses to personalized websites: essays on the process underlying experience

Summary: 

Companies increasingly personalize their website content with the aim of improving customer experience. Although the personalization process has been studied by prior research in marketing and information systems, the understanding of customer experience on personalized websites has been identified by the Marketing Science Institute as requiring further investigation. Therefore, this doctoral dissertation explores customer experience on personalized websites and the underlying processes with three essays combining quantitative and qualitative methods. The first essay shows the influence of personalization on customer experience and highlights the process underlying customers’ conscious and unconscious responses to personalization. The second essay enables a better appraisal of the process underlying the triggering and management of paradoxical tensions of personalization. The third essay further examines the backfire effects of personalization on customer experience and the role of information transparency and customer need for cognition in this process. This doctoral research contributes to research on both customer experience and personalization by providing a more holistic and iterative view of customer experience on personalized websites and the underlying psychological mechanisms. It also provides practitioners with several insights on how to provide an optimal customer experience with the personalization of the website content and how to mitigate negative responses to personalization.

For more information, see the public defence announcement.

In addition, Béatrice Parguel also offers to organize a friendly review of an hour with each student who would like to (on the basis of a paper sent a week in advance), a brainstorm on a data collection project or on how to respond to a real review, or a personalized feedback on all or part of the thesis project (on the basis of a thesis monitoring document).

Please register for this course by clicking here. You will subsequently receive the link to join the course.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Theories of Organizations in Management – 5 ECTS

Prof. Régis COEURDEROY

Course description

The course schedule may change. Please always check the latest version here. Depending on the evolution of the university's color code, the course may need to be given online.

INFO: secretariat-lourim@uclouvain.be 

Registration closed on 25 January

Online sessions - more information will be sent to participants

Communication and Writing Skills – 5 ECTS

Prof. Valérie SWAEN & Manuel KOLP

Course description

Depending on the evolution of the university's color code, the course will be given online or in person.

INFO: secretariat-lourim@uclouvain.be 

Registration closed on 25 January

The course schedule might change, please always check the latest version here. 

A presentation day will be organized in June. 

Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences

The Rector of UCLouvain and the Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences announce that Mr Nathanaël BETTI will publicly support her dissertation, for the title of Doctor in Economics and Management Sciences of UCLouvain.

Title:

Essays on the Influence of Digitalisation on the Internal Audit Function

Summary:

CCMS Research Seminar with Susan FOURNIER, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

"Marketing in an Age of Risky Business"

On UCLouvain Teams meeting space 
Please check your connexion before the event, specially UNamur participants
In case of access issue, use a personnal address (not @unamur.be)

RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS

Susan is a leading researcher and international voice in the field of branding and consumer behavior. She is credited with pioneering the brand relationships sub-field in marketing – a thriving subject that explores the connections consumers form with branded products, services, and organizations.

Her work spans the disciplines and methods of marketing, psychology, anthropology, and finance with a signature research style that delivers profound theoretical insights and applications for business practice.

One of the most-awarded scholars in marketing, she received six best paper awards from major journals throughout her career. She is one of six researchers to be awarded the Long-Term Contribution Award in Consumer Research, granted to her in recognition of her work on brand relationships. She has been recognized twice for research with the most impact on theory and practice, receiving the Maynard Award from Journal of Marketing for her study on customer satisfaction and the Sheth Award from Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science for an empirical paper demonstrating the creation of shareholder value through branding. She also received the Emerald Publishing Citation of Excellence Award for the Top 50 articles in management.

Susan is consistently ranked among the Top 10% of authors on SSRN in terms of all-time downloads, and claims over 20,000 Google Scholar citations with five published works garnering over 1,000 cites.

Susan is the author of two acclaimed books on branding, over 40 best-selling Harvard Business School case studies, and is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review blog. Her active projects explore the role of risk in branding theory and practice, management of person-brands such as Martha Stewart and Donald Trump, brand co-creation, brand relationship development and dissolution, and the lived experiences of brand “flings,” “abusive marriages,” and “secret affairs.”

Read more... 

Séminaire par Pr Bernadette CHARLIER, Université de Fribourg 

“Bilan d’une recherche sur les dispositifs de formation hybrides : avancées, limites et perspectives" 

Dans le cadre du projet ARC « MOOCresearch2.0: A mixed-method and multidisciplinary approach to socio-cognitive conflicts in online educational platforms », Mariane Frenay (GIRSEF, IPSY), François Lambotte (Social Media Lab, ILC), Magali Paquot (CECL, ILC) & Valérie Swaen (LouRIM) ont le plaisir d’accueillir la Prof. Bernadette CHARLIER de l’Université de Fribourg, Suisse, qui fera une présentation en ligne à laquelle vous êtes cordialement invité·e.

Jeudi 28 janvier, de 12h à 13h :

“Bilan d’une recherche sur les dispositifs de formation hybrides : avancées, limites et perspectives »

Ce séminaire est organisé par les membres du projet ARC avec le soutien du Groupe interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur la Socialisation, l’Education et la Formation (GIRSEF), le Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations (LouRIM) et l’Institut Langage et Communication (ILC).

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Vous pouvez également retrouver les informations relatives à cet évènement sur ce site : https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cecl/actualites/seminaire-arc.html

Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences

The Rector of UCLouvain and the Doctoral Commission in Economics and Management Sciences announce that Mrs Marine DE RIDDER will publicly support her dissertation, for the title of Doctor in Economics and Management Sciences of UCLouvain.

Title:

Free Speech? Analysis of the Discussion Spaces on Work in Self-Proclaimed Liberated Firms.

Summary:

La thèse de Marine De Ridder porte sur la délibération sur le travail dans les entreprises dites libérées. Le mouvement de « libération » des organisations vise à promouvoir l’autonomie, la responsabilisation et la « liberté » des travailleurs. Les ambassadeurs de cette technique managériale promettent ainsi de réconcilier le bien-être au travail et la performance de l’organisation. Au-delà de ces belles promesses, la thèse vise à comprendre, à l’aide d’une méthodologie de recherche qui permet la rencontre entre la chercheuse et les travailleurs de ces organisations, le vécu et les enjeux du quotidien dans les entreprises dites libérées. Cette thèse contribue à identifier les nouvelles prescriptions à l’égard des travailleurs ainsi que les dynamiques à l’œuvre dans les espaces de discussion du travail de ces organisations. Plus globalement, la thèse offre un regard critique sur les techniques managériales contemporaines pour mettre en lumière les complexités du quotidien, encore souvent passées sous silence dans les discours managériaux.

CCMS Online Seminar with Prof. Mansur KHAMITOV

Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Vice-Chair of American Marketing Association's CBSIG (Consumer Behaviour Special Interest Group).

When Time Does Not Heal All Wounds:

The Novel Attenuation Effect of Answering Multiple Surveys on Consumer Revenge and Forgiveness

This research challenges the “time heals all wounds” effect in the context of a major service failure episode. As its core contribution, it documents the novel attenuation effect of completing multiple surveys, over time, on variables associated with the revenge and forgiveness process. By using three longitudinal experiments—lasting between one and two month(s) each—we show that an attenuation effect is caused by answering a series of surveys over time, rather than by the passing of time on its own. This effect is robust regardless of the survey sender (firm vs. third party), the presence of a recovery, the type of experiments (field vs. lab-style), the intervals between surveys, and the number of surveys. As a second contribution, we identify a relevant boundary condition by showing the moderating effect of prior relationship quality; the attenuation process is less pronounced as the quality of the prior relationship increases. As a third contribution, we document the process at play by showing that well-designed surveys (including both emotional and cognitive elements) stimulate the attenuation effect by helping consumers make sense holistically of their negative experience. Finally, we specifically document the mediating role played by personal sensemaking in explaining the attenuation effect.

LINK TO TEAMS MEETING

18/03 - 16:00

Communication & Writing Skills

Presentation Day

In the context of Communication & Writing Skills Doctoral Course (LLSMA2007), LSM Research Master Students and PhD Candidates will present their research. 

This doctoral event is open to PhD's (1 ECTS)  and LSM academics.

Registration:

Registrations here, open till 7th June included.

Organization:

• Valérie SWAEN - valerie.swaen@uclouvain.be 

• Manuel KOLP - manuel.kolp@uclouvain.be 
   

Date: 

10 June 2021 - 9:00 AM till 13:00 PM
 

Venue:

Zoom

PhD Day of the Doctoral School of Management 

The Doctoral School in Management UCLouvain - UNamur (DSM) is pleased to invite you to the 2021 DSM PhD Day that will be held online on May 25, 2021 from 9.00 to 12.30.

Doctoral students in management of the EDT “Ecole doctorale Sciences de gestion ULB/ULg/UMons” as well as from KULeuven, VUB and USLB are also invited to participate. We hope this will broaden the scope of the discussions and offer new collaboration opportunities.

The 2021 edition aims at gathering all PhD students in management around video research presentations and a conference.

Call for Video Research Presentations

The Doctoral School in Management UCLouvain - UNamur (DSM) is pleased to invite you to the 2021 DSM PhD Day that will be held online on May 25, 2021 from 9.00 to 12.30.

Doctoral students in management of the EDT “Ecole doctorale Sciences de gestion ULB/ULg/UMons” as well as from KULeuven, VUB and USLB are also invited to participate. We hope this will broaden the scope of the discussions and offer new collaboration opportunities.

The 2021 edition aims at gathering all PhD students in management around video research presentations and a conference.

Video presentations:

• You are invited to submit your 5 min video capsule that will be shown on the webpage and might be selected to be broadcasted during the event
   
• You may choose the video format to present your research in English in maximum 5 minutes.
   
• Each presentation will also have feedback from the audience by means of an evaluation grid.

A 200€ prize for the best presentation 
based on the vote of the public will be awarded at the end of the event

Videos

Keynote speech by Michelle Bergadaà

Video Selenia Anastasia 

Video Matteo Barbagli

Video Sabrina Courtois

Video Grégory De Boe

Video Pauline de Montpellier d'Annevoie

Video Samuel Desguin

Video Ive Klinksiek

Video Myriam Lanotte

Video Ivan Markovic

Video Anne Méno Tamno

Video Josep Oriol Izquierdo

Video Aiste Petkeviciute 

Video Kevin Pineda Hernandez

Video Chloé Satinet

Video Camilla Scola

Video Julie Solbreux 

Video Laurianne Terlinden

Voir le programme ci-dessous. 

Plus d’infos : https://perspectivescritiquesenmanagement.org/

PDF avec toutes les modalités.

"Dreaming About Travel: A Pinterest Netnography"

Ongoing travel information search remains under-examined in general, and specifically in terms of social media use. Understanding how visual social media platforms inspire travel dreams is increasingly pertinent as visual contents gain in importance. This is especially relevant when travel is restricted, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pinterest seems to be ideally suited for supporting ongoing search but has been rarely used as a data source in e-tourism research. This paper uses a netnographic approach to explore travel-related Pinterest data. From a methodological perspective, it finds that the platform is suitable for informing ongoing travel information search research but points to potential methodological challenges. As a theoretical contribution, it highlights the popularity of capturing travel dreams through Pinterest boards and illustrates the affective labor users put into their collections of travel dreams. The paper concludes with implications for tourism marketing and recommender system design

More info about Ulrike Gretzel

For more information, please contact Julie Masset.

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