Research Teams & Projects

Areas of distinctive expertise: description, membership and production

B.S.B research activities are structured by areas of distinctive expertise ("Entrepreneurship, Clustering and Innovation" and "Sustainable Performance Development"), which carry on dynamic research that helps ground the School's curriculum in real world while keeping students and faculty at innovation's edge.

Sustainable Development and Performance

In compliance with its willingness to educate responsible managers, both citizen of the world and aware of the ethical stakes in their jobs, BSB has developed a research in the area of sustainable development and performance. Main topics are:

  • Research Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility – funded by Caisse d'Epargne de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, EDF and Hewlett Packard
    • Team of about 10 people: market finance, governance, microfinance taxation, communication, marketing, accounting, corporate finance, human resources management.
    • Main topic : importance of social responsibility in strategy and communication of firms, link with performance, governance and management of firms, evolution of performance assessment
  • IFRS – Balances accounting and performance management
    • BSB has a very good reputation for its excellent teaching in audit and finance – it was thus logical to develop research topics on International accounting and balanced accounting..
  • Governance and firms' performance
    • In collaboration with the University of Burgundy which is known for its excellence in research on governance, BSB has developed a research topic in corporate governance.

Innovation, Clustering and Entrepreneurship

Burgundy’s economy is a largely based on SMEs working in strong connection with national and international big firms. It is thus natural for the school to develop an expertise in SME management. National and regional interest for the creation and working of clusters has increased the importance of this topic in our research. Main topics are :

  • Clusters and SMEs
    • Once again the originality and the core competence of the team is its capacity to cross theories and complementary approaches: international economics, regional development, strategic management, innovation management, marketing, finance.
    • The research output encompasses studies like the analysis of the possibility of the creation of clusters in several industries (wood, wine) or the analysis of SMEs’ business models and their specificities.
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation
    • Burgundy has launched many actions aiming at developing innovation in the region. We have also oriented our research activities on the specificity of SMEs in innovation management. The work that has been done covers many themes from venture creation by women, Intellectual Property management in SMEs to the international comparison of innovation management in SMEs, or the specificity of innovation in health and food sectors.
  • Decision, envy and motivation
    • The decision process in economic activities focuses the interest of a lot of economic actors and of a lot of academics. We have developed a double expertise: both on the behavioural economics and on decision based on genetic algorithms.