Ina Aust’s research interests focus on Sustainable Human Resource Management and on paradoxical tensions in (sustainable) Human Resource Management. Ina Aust studies how HRM professionals and actors can use both sustainability as a principle to design HRM systems, practices and processes and how to use HRM tools to make a contribution to social and ecological progress, for example, to United Nation’s sustainable development goals. Ina Aust is particularly interested in how sustainability changes the HR roles, purpose, practices and what type of challenges and paradoxical tensions HRM practitioners face in Sustainable HRM. These paradoxical tensions can be experienced at organizational, individual and societal level of analysis and Ina Aust is interested in studying how different HRM actors in different institutional and cultural contexts respond to these paradoxical tensions over time. Recently, Ina Aust started studying the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic on HRM and the paradoxical tensions which have become salient during this crisis.

Guilhem Bascle is a Professor of Strategic Management. His research interests include corporate governance, corporate strategy, organizational theory, and applied econometrics. He examines how publicly traded firms cope with multiple expectations, especially in terms of corporate strategy and corporate governance, of powerful actors such as institutional investors and security analysts. He also focuses on econometric approaches to analyze causal effects of interest with observational data. Guilhem holds a PhD from HEC Paris. Previously, he was on the faculty of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He was also an Arthur Sachs Fellow at Harvard University, and a Visiting Professor at Paris-Dauphine University as well as ESCP Business School. His article “Controlling for Endogeneity with Instrumental Variables in Strategic Management Research” won the SO!WHAT Best Article Award for Scholarly Contribution from Strategic Organization. He was also a runner-up (Honorable Mention) of the Strategic Management Society’s Best Conference Paper Prize. For his paper “Toward a Dynamic Theory of Intermediate Conformity”, he was a runner-up of the Research Excellence Award of the University Research Institute in Management. He was awarded a Research Methodology Award for the study coauthored with Jiwook Jung and entitled “Caught in an Expectations Trap: Risks of Giving Securities Analysts What They Expect”.

Karine Charry's research focuses on pro-social and sustainable behaviours (social marketing). She studies how marketing theories and techniques can encourage the adoption and maintenance of socially beneficial behaviours (such as pro-environmental behaviour, healthy food consumption and individual well-being). Her projects incorporate digital techniques and technologies insofar as they serve these pro-social interests, with a special focus on the social influences at play.

Régis Coeurderoy’s research interests focus on Corporate globalization and innovation issues. Régis Coeurderoy is particularly interested in the strategic drivers of internationalization by large and small-sized innovative companies. He also studies the rise of the platform companies and the transformation of (international) business. In his spare time, he also studies (and teaches) the intellectual foundations of the theory of the firm, more specifically how the heterogeneity of individual motivations may influence the design of organizational structures.

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Edina Doci conducts research at the intersection of organizational psychology and organizational sociology, delving into the role of psychological resources in two key areas: 1) the reproduction of inequalities in organizations, and 2) the pursuit of social change within organizations and through organizing. Her research interests lie in advancing the emerging field of critical work and organizational psychology, examining inequalities within organizations, exploring the psycho-social mechanisms of social change, the influence of ideology in workplace dynamics, and the psychology of organizing amidst the climate crisis.

In terms of research, Caroline Ducarroz is interested in traditional market mechanisms that are digitalized nowadays: dynamic pricing methods such as auction and crowdfunding systems, personalized recommendation systems, and more recently coherence between offline and online touchpoints in the retailing sector. Caroline Ducarroz is particularly interested in modelling these mechanisms, confronting them to real data (which is made possible thanks to digitalization and close contact with some Belgian companies), and understanding how they impact consumers’ (or bidders’) behaviour and customers’ experience. Her research attempts to help companies to be more efficient in the use of these mechanisms, and to draw consumers’ attention on how these mechanisms can be used to influence their behaviour.

Ses recherches sont axées autour des NTIC et de l'analyse de données, et touchent à différents domaines tels que la théorie des graphes, les systèmes de recommandations, la fouille de données ("data mining"), l'apprentissage automatique ("machine learning"), ou encore la segmentation. L'axe de travail est double, d'une part dans le développement de nouveaux algorithmes, et d'autre part dans l'analyse des impacts de ces outils et des NTIC.

Professor Gailly has a Master in Engineering and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from UCLouvain, a European Master’s Degree in Society, Science and Technology from Roskilde University, and an MBA from INSEAD. After a career at McKinsey, he is since 2001 a Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy in the Louvain School of Management. He is also Program Director of the Executive Master in Innovation Management (www.LouvainInnovation.be). His research focuses on innovation-based strategies and capabilities (www.NavigatingInnovation.org), as well as innovation support systems. He is the author of numerous scientific publications on innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as of the books Developing Innovative Organizations (Palgrave, 2011) and Navigating Innovation (Palgrave, 2018). He is a board member and advisor for several innovation networks and international companies. Since 2014 he has also been an associate member of the Board of BiRD (Belgium Industrial R&D) and the Secretary General of the GRD Network (www.GRDNetwork.be).

Simon Hazée is an Associate Professor of Marketing at UCLouvain (Belgium). Simon is attached to the Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations (LouRIM) and the Center on Consumers and Marketing Strategy (CCMS). His research lies at the intersection of the fields of digital marketing and service management, and mainly focuses on customer experience with new technologies, digital customer care and marketing in the sharing economy. His work has appeared in the Journal of Service Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Marketing Letters, and Journal of Business Research, among others. He serves on the editorial review board of Journal of Business Research, Journal of Service Management and Journal of Service Theory and Practice.

Corentin Hericher is Assistant Professor of Sustainability Management at UClouvain. His research lies at the intersection of the field of organizational behavior and the fields of corporate social (ir)responsibility and business ethics. Corentin’s research focuses on employees’ evaluations of their employer’s morality and how the evaluations translate - eventually - into behaviors that will benefit or punish their employer in reaction to its moral or amoral actions. Corentin also develops two research agendas that aims at understanding how employees judge and react to 1) their employer’s use of artificial intelligence and 2) their employers ethics and compliance internal policies.

Julie Hermans is Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UCLouvain. Her research focuses on multiple-goal pursuit in entrepreneurial contexts such as innovation (exploration & exploitation), growth (development & consolidation), and social enterprises (business & social goals), from a cognitive perspective. Her teaching focuses on the management of such tensions and polarities when pursuing new business opportunities, for individuals as well as in collectives. She teaches students at the master level, as well as post-graduates who are already involved in their professional live. She is the academic co-director of the Executive Program in Innovation Management (Louvain Innovation).

Amélie Jacquemin is professor of entrepreneurship at the Louvain School of Management (UCLouvain, Belgium) and academic head of the incubator for student entrepreneurial projects on the FUCaM Mons campus. She holds a master's degree in law (UCLouvain, 2002) and a Ph.D. in economics and management (UCLouvain, 2012). Attached to the Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations (LouRIM), her work focuses on entrepreneurship and SMEs, and more specifically on entrepreneurial action. She studies how the entrepreneur identifies or creates business opportunities, and then remains in entrepreneurship in spite of difficulties and doubts. Her approach is always rooted in a situated context, particularly that of entrepreneurial support structures, or, at a more macro level, in relation to regulations and public policies affecting entrepreneurship. Amélie is also in line with critical approaches to entrepreneurship by deconstructing discourses, myths and tools that naturalize a unique, idealized and heroic entrepreneurial figure. Finally, as a teacher of entrepreneurship, Amélie is also developing work on entrepreneurial education by questioning her own pedagogical practices, particularly gamified ones, and their impact in terms of learning on students.

Dr. Frank Janssen is full professor of entrepreneurship at the Louvain School of Management of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium where he runs the interdisciplinary program in entrepreneurship (CPME). He holds master degrees in law, economics, business administration and a PhD in management. He president of the International French-speaking Research Association on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (AIREPME) and past-president of the Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations (LouRIM). Frank is associate editor of the Revue Internationale P.M.E. (leading French-speaking academic journal on SMEs and Entrepreneurship), member of the scientific committee of M@n@gement and of the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat, as well as and of the editing committee of Revue Gestion 2000. His research interests are along 4 major axes revolving around the general theme of entrepreneurship: (1) the growth of the firm; (2) social and sustainable entrepreneurship; (3) entrepreneurial motivations and (4) entrepreneurship and society, i.e. impact of eco-systems, culture and institutions. He (co-)authored about 50 articles in international journals, 8 books, 40 book chapters and more than 100 communications at international conferences. His work has been published in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, International Small Business Journal, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Environment and Planning C, etc.

Nicolas Kervyn has a background in Social Psychology. He is currently associate professor at the Louvain School of Management (UCL, LOURiM) in Belgium. His research focuses on consumer behaviour and brand perception. He has worked on the Brands as Intentional Agents Framework, applying social perception theory to brand perception. He also studied the interplay between brand anthropomorphism and model dehumanization in advertising. Nicolas also worked with La Premiere RTBF to experiment new ways to turn their linear radio programs into online podcasts organized thematically (La Carte des Belges du Bout du Monde & 1000 jours dans l'Histoire). Lately Nicolas has started working on cases of Brand Hijack. Instances where a vocal subgroup of consumers (such as narcotraffickers, far right groups, ...) become iconic consumers of a brand and thus have a disproportionate impact on its brand image.

Full Professor (Professeur ordinaire) in Information Systems with a 25-years international academic and professional experience; Chairman of the FNRS (Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research)-accredited Doctoral School of Management; Head of CEMIS - Center in Management Information Systems (2006-2018);
Vice-Dean, Louvain School of Management (2010 - 2014); Appointed invited professor at different universities; Previously Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Information and Senior Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
Academic record includes more 250 publications in international journals and scientific conferences, five books, a dozen supervised PhD theses.
Independent Expert for the European Commission and foreign national research agencies on projects related to IT and software engineering; Consultant and executive instructor for (IT) companies, managers and competency centers.
Main expertises related to Information Systems Analysis and Design, Digital Transformation, Data and Information Management, Sofware Project Management, Business Process and Requirements Modeling and Agent-Oriented/Knowledge Systems.
PostDoc in Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada, PhD degree in Information Sciences, University of Brussels supported by the FNRS; MIS and M.A., UBrussels.

Marie Lamensch’s research mainly focuses on digitalization and its effects on traditional tax systems (in particular VAT and other indirect tax systems but also corporate tax systems). She analyses and proposes design changes that would render tax systems both workable and sustainable in the 21st century economy, taking into consideration the position of all stakeholders (taxpayers, the States and society at large). Marie is a member of the VAT expert group of the European Commission and of the Technical Advisory Group of the OECD Working Party 9 (on consumption taxes). 

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Gordy Pleyers’ research interests mainly focus on how various design elements (e.g. shapes, colors, visuals, materials) that can be found on marketing tools (e.g. packaging, ads) can influence consumers’ responses at various levels such as the affective reaction, the beliefs/thoughts (e.g. quality, premium, authenticity, trustworthiness), or the sensory perceptions (e.g. inference of smell/taste intensity or complexity). He mainly uses an experimental approach in laboratory with the aim of examining causal effects (e.g. comparing the impacts of different options while removing the influence of unwanted factors that could otherwise distort the results) and consumers’ reactions at an “automatic” (“non-conscious”) level.

Ingrid PONCIN is in charge of the PARTENAMUT- IPM_DIGITAL MARKETING CHAIR. She completed her PhD in Management (Marketing) at FUCAM (Belgique) for which she received the “Gouverneur Cornez Award”. She is Qualified researcher (HDR) from Lille II University, France. Her research interests concern use and measurement of affect in marketing and consumer experience and behaviour in the Digital World. She is also developing research on gamification, engagement, customer empowerment, presence, social sharing as well as personalization. The latest researches in progress are related to the behaviour and experience of the consumer in response to artificial intelligence (AI) be it an agent, a chatbot or a robot. She has published in Journal of Business Research, Information & Management, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Interactive Marketing, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of Advertising, Advances in Consumer Research, Recherche et Applications en Marketing.

My research interests encompass two areas. Firstly, I focus on the development and dissemination of innovative accounting models and methods that integrate environmental and social considerations. Secondly, I am interested in exploring the connections between management control/accounting with social and environmental challenges faced by organizations.

Anne-Catherine Provost’s research interests focus on performance management. She is particularly interested in the development and implementation of performance management tools - especially the balanced scorecard - in the healthcare industry. Her research addresses several critical questions such as how hospitals adopted and adapted this strategic tool? Are their scorecards really balanced or are they mainly focusing on financial and internal processes perspectives? How do they manage tensions between cost management and quality or patient satisfaction? Anne-Catherine Provost conducted her research in the French healthcare industry and is comparing it with the Belgian industry. She is currently focusing on the impact of environment, and more particularly on the impact of crisis (such as the actual sanitary crisis) on management control tools. The objective of her research is to help healthcare institutions to develop their own performance management system aligned with their strategy and capable to meet the challenges they are facing.

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Isabelle Schuiling’s research interests focus on Branding, International Marketing, and Digital Marketing. Isabelle Schuiling is particularly interested in the way companies have to strategically manage their brands in the current digital environment. She also studies what is the level of globalization or localization that companies have to adopt in the current global context. She is also interested in the impact of the digital technology on the management of brands. Her research will cover in priority brands in the fast Moving Consumer Goods industry as well as in the Luxury industry.

Valérie Swaen’s research interests focus on sustainability in business and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). She is particularly interested in the reactions of company’s stakeholders (e.g. employees, consumers) to CSR activities, CSR reporting and CSR communications. She also participates in research projects related to CSR teaching and integration of sustainable development issues in universities and business schools. She is also leading the Louvain CSR network that gathers and supports researchers and practitioners who seek to put responsible leadership and sustainable production and consumption at the heart of their research and strategy. She held different corporate chairs in CSR (with companies such as Solvay, Spadel, SNCB). 

Laurent Taskin is full professor of HRM and Organization studies at UCLouvain (LSM, LRIM) and affiliate professor at PSL University (Paris Dauphine). His research interests focus on how new forms of (work) organization and management (telework, office designs, participative/democratic governance, e.g.) re-regulates HRM and organizational processes like control and identity. In a critical perspective, Laurent also explores the conditions of emergence and development of ‘Humane Management’ understood as an alternative to traditional HRM, promoting human dignity and sustainability. His work has been published in outlets such as Human Relations, Human Resource Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, The International Journal of Human Resource Management… Laurent holds the labor-H Chair, a transdisciplinary initiative dedicated to the development of ways to manage organisations humanely.

I am Associate Professor (Tenured) of Corporate Finance at the Universit\'e catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium and Vice-Dean of External Corporate Relations and Communication at the Louvain School of Management. My research interests include corporate finance, sentiment analytics, sustainable finance, econometric modelling, machine learning and international finance. In particular, I research on the development of machine learning methods to optimize the extraction of information from unstructured data contained in corporate disclosures, such as annual reports, audit reports, earnings press releases and CEO letters to shareholders. I also serve as expert at the European Commission for Horizon 2020/Europe and conducted projects for the National Bank of Belgium. In addition, I have been involved in various regulatory working groups, such as the Financial Innovation Standing Committee (FISC) at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). My research has recently been published in leading finance and accounting journals such as Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, European Accounting Review, Journal of Banking & Finance and International Review of Financial Analysis, among others. Other work is currently in revision in other leading Financial Times 50 and UTD journals. Finally, I have been recently interested in the application of artificial intelligence methods to identify topics discussed in ESG reports and their value relevance for investors and ESG rating providers.

Corentin Vande Kerckhove holds a Master of Engineering, a Master of Management and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from UCLouvain. After a career at a Y-Combinator backed fintech company, Delphia Inc. (Toronto), he becomes an Assistant professor in the field of Business Data Analytics at UCLouvain. His research interests lie at the intersection of opinion dynamics and data-driven decision making, aiming at leveraging the value of data to improve organizational effectiveness and reducing unconscious bias. In particular, he tends to have an affinity in the field of data mining on social media data, exploring innovative network analysis methods and natural language processing models.
Corentin détient un master en sciences de l'ingénieur, un master en management et un doctorat en mathématiques appliquées. Après avoir guidé les lignes de recherche de la fintech Delphia Inc. à Toronto, il devient chargé de cours dans le domaine des Business Data Analytics à l'UCLouvain. Ses intérêts de recherche se trouvent à l'intersection entre l'étude des dynamiques d'opinion et les outils d'aide à la prise de décision, visant à explorer la valeur de données pour améliorer l'efficacité des organisations et réduire les biais inconscients. En particulier, il étudie les comportements observés sur les medias sociaux en exploitant la structure des réseaux ainsi que l'analyse automatique de langage pour guider ses recherches.

Jean Vanderdonckt’s research interests include software engineering aspects in human-computer interaction (Engineering interactive computing systems-EICS), particularly for information systems, web sites/applications, intelligent user interfaces (IUI), and usability engineering, preferably combined to obtain a final user interface that is the most usable possible for the end user. More particularly, gesture interaction in multiple contexts of use, with different users, different devices (ranging from an armband to a wall display), and in different environments. Collaborative aspects during the development life cycles of any user interface are also covered, ranging from requirements elicitation until final evaluation.

The VUCA environment in which organizations operate is characterized by constant change.  The Capacity for Change is increasingly a survival issue for organizations and their sustainability.  Our research focuses on organizational change with a paradoxical lens to understand top managers, middle managers and followers' experiences in a context of paradoxical tensions.  Based on paradox theory and sense-making/-giving literature, our research emphasizes a multilevel analysis, illustrated by qualitative and longitudinal approaches, and contributes to figure out how organizational processes actually work with paradoxes. A complementary research avenue concerns decision making processes in a context of organizational change, where adopting a systemic perspective proves to be worth.

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Géraldine Zeimers’s research interests relate to Sport Management and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In the field of sport management, she is particularly interested in the governance of national and regional sport organisations. She studies how sport boards behave internally and the role of Chairs. In the field of CSR and sustainable development, her research also focused on how non-profit sport organisations implement CSR practices with an interorganisational lense and an organisational lense. Géraldine Zeimers participates in projects on good governance in different context (Belgium, Europe and India). Geraldine Zeimers is involved in the Delta group that conducts research and provides training to Belgian sport federations on good governance. She has published in journals such as Journal of Sport Management, European Sport Management Quarterly and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. She is a member of sport management scientific communities (EASM, NASSM and SMAANZ) as well as of Louvain CSR Network.