On January 20th, LouRIM members gathered for LouRIM’s annual Research Day, previously known as the “LouRIM Award”. Highlighted papers were selected following our usual criteria i.e. excellence, innovation, a multidisciplinary approach and a certain outreach/impact.
LouRIM members’ papers published in top journals in 2021 were eligible for this year’s event, which represents no less than 40 papers! These papers tackle management problematics in various areas, i.e. strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, marketing, consumer behaviour, human management, sport management or even accounting and control. Five out of these 40 publications were put forward during our Research Day. For more information on LouRIM members’ publications, please refer to the programme of the day.
Next year, our Research Day will also give the opportunity to LouRIM members to present a recent “remarkable” research project. In doing so, the institute really aims to encourage and reinforce collaborations and inter-disciplinarity in research.
Agenda of the day
The 2023 Research Day started by a walking dinner. It was a nice opportunity for all the members to share a nice moment and exchange wishes for the new year.
Presentations started at 1:30 pm. The talks were quite enriching and inspired numerous yet constructive questions by a responsive audience.
Amélie Jacquemin presented the "Abécédaire critique en entrepreneuriat / Critical Entrepreneurship ABC Primer". It is a specific section appearing in each volume of “Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat/Review of Entrepreneurship”. The goal is to question the vocabulary used in entrepreneurship by deconstructing the rhetoric and the universe of meaning it contains. It was an opportunity to explain what the critical approaches of entrepreneurship are, and more specifically their role in terms of performativity issues (how do our concepts and categories shape our representations of what entrepreneurship is?).
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Simon Hazée presented his paper on evolutionary perspective on the dynamics of service platform ecosystems for the sharing economy. This paper proposes an evolutionary framework to better understand the dynamics of service platform ecosystems using literature on ecosystem ecology and socio-cultural evolution. It looks closer to the three components of the service platform ecosystem i.e. (1) the diverse types of species, (2) the presence of both cooperative and competitive interactions within and among species, and (3) a common resource and environmental space. This paper also aims to shed light on how platform business models change over time using evolutionary model of variation, selection, and retention.
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Géraldine Zeimers presented her paper on Power and rent-seeking on boards: a case study of national sport federations in India. The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extend power influences the rent-seeking activities of board members in Indian national sport federations drawing on a four-dimensional model of power.
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Michel Ajzen presented his research with Laurent Taskin tackling the re-regulation of working communities and relationships in the context of flexwork : a spacing identity approach. In their paper, they investigate how flexworkers enact workspace changes and find capacities to reappropriate space. They started their reflection with questions such as “how exactly does flexwork re-regulate working relationships and communities?” or “Is the “collective” irremediably damaged and doomed to disappear?” Using a case study conducted in an insurance company having implemented flexwork, they observe invisibilized employees working from diverse premises (e.g., home, office, etc.) initiating alternative ways of staying united and close.
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Finally Sylvain Courtain presented his paper written with other LouRIM members about randomized shortest paths with net flows and capacity constraints. The paper extends a model of movement, or spread, through a network interpolating between an optimal exploitation of the network structure and a random exploration of the network called the randomized shortest paths (RSP) model. More specifically, it extends the RSP model by investigating a new dissimilarity measure between nodes and adding capacity constraints on edge flows. These extensions improve the scope of the RSP model to network flow problems such as transportation and scheduling problems.