Our research chairs

Institutionalizing the relationship between research and organizations

Management research maintains close relations with the life and practices of organizations in the broadest sense, and companies in particular. Researchers feed off the observation and analysis of these practices, and the conclusions of their studies in turn feed the knowledge and behavior of the players.



Wishing to institutionalize relations between research and organizations, Sorbonne Business School created research chairs as early as 2008. These chairs bring together representatives of the socio-economic world (companies, consulting firms, etc.) and researchers from the laboratory involved in a particular theme.

Projects serving organizations

Researchers and partners together define priority research projects and organize events where the results of these projects are promoted. More specifically, the chairs meet the following objectives:

• capitalize and energize work on a specific theme.
• federate a network of researchers and raise the profile of research in this field.
• co-produce research issues in line with stakeholders' concerns.
• provide privileged access to fields of study.
• establish solid, long-term cooperations with socio-economic players by confronting experiences, empirical research results and theorizations.
• valorize results with stakeholders.

The 7 Sorbonne Business School research chairs

• public-private partnerships
• alternative financing for the agricultural sector
• governance of financial cooperatives
• business changes
• the transformation of territories
• risk management
• the brand