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CARES: Community for Action and Research on Environment and Societies
CARES brings together around 50 faculty members from all departments at Audencia who are engaging with environmental and social issues in management in their research and teaching.
Our aim

Recognizing that grand challenges are complex and reach across disciplinary boundaries, CARES aims to develop and diffuse diverse expertise around key issues embodied in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and beyond. CARES offers a space to:
- share the most recent scholarly research by faculty and invited researchers
- stimulate inclusive, transversal and interdisciplinary discussion
- explore tricky topics and experiment with unusual ideas
- welcome external experts from different disciplines such as psychology, law, policy, geography and beyond
- pick up weak signals about emerging challenges in a rapidly changing world
- identify potential datasets and collaborators for research projects
- connect research to teaching and wider societal impact
As active and engaged academic citizens, we strive to enable transformative change towards sustainability and regeneration by questioning existing paradigms, exploring alternatives, and imagining new possibilities. As the IPCC 2018 report on climate change stated, we need “rapid, far reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society”. This, of course, can only be achieved in interaction and collaboration with others, including students, local communities, professionals, change makers, regulators, and many others.
Individually and collectively, we engage in research to strengthen and enhance both theoretical and practical foundations for sustainable development. This is done through regular interactions with scholars, practitioners and experts, but also with local communities within and outside our institution. We develop and implement teaching materials to challenge and rethink our curriculum. We also participate in local and global actions, movements and networks to contribute to broader societal change.
Activities

CARES organizes regular activities and events through the year to bring researchers together including:
- Monthly catch-ups explore new topics, latest updates or current projects of members
- Seminars with internal and external researchers and experts bring insights on a range of issues
- Workshops offer an opportunity to do a deep-dive into a particular topic
- Writing retreats give space for faculty to work individually on their research projects in a supportive environment
Networks

CARES brings together active members of a range of networks including:
- United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME)
- International Association for Business and Society (IABS)
- European Business Ethics Network (EBEN)
- Centre for Social & Environmental Accounting Research France (CSEAR)
- Business and Society Research Seminar
- Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network Europe (EMAN)
- Network Business for Sustainability
- B Academy (academic network of the B-Lab)
Insights from our experts
Women! Video series by the Knowledge Hub x CARES:
Audencia's Knowledge Hub and CARES have produced a series of 5 videos entitled Women! Knowledge Hub x CARES. Each one offers research insights and reflection from CARES members inviting us to rethink the role of women in society.
#1 Natalia Vershinina - Gender and Societal Structure
#2 Claire Champenois – Feminist and Gender
#3 Christine Naschberger – Equality and Inclusion
Resources
The CARES Teams page hosts a range of resources for faculty on topics as well as editorial information and calls for papers and conferences.
2025
- Epistemic disobedience: introducing decoloniality in entrepreneurship theory through critical posthumanism - Claire Champenois, Audencia and Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento
- How artist-led practices open new ways of knowing - Nil Gulari, Audencia
- Inner Development Goals - Caroline Lancelot Miltgen, Audencia
- Workshop: Responsible AI in Research and Teaching - Heidi Reed and Wassili Lasarov, Audencia
- Impact Score - Octave Kleynjans, Director Impact Lab
- Sustainability in Maritime Spaces - Gervaise Debucquet and Gui Azevedo, Audencia
- Governance for Sustainability - Jennifer Goodman, Audencia
2024
- CSRD What it Means for us and our Students - Emma Avetisyan, Audencia
- A Responsibility Perspective on GenAI in Research - Wassili Lasarov, Audencia
- Writing Retreat - 1-day retreat for individual writing, together
- Making a Good First Impression: Titles, Abstracts and Introductions - Andrew Crane, University of Bath
- Regenerative Initiatives - Gustave de Campignuelles, Strategic Partnerships Google
- What is Progress? - Yuliya Shymko, Audencia
- Prévenir L’éco-anxiété - Pierre-Eric Sutter, Mars-lab, Econoïa, La Maison des éco-anxieux
- Influencing policy on social and environmental issues - Blanche Lermite, L’Ebullition
- Workshop: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Circular Economy - Anna Gerke and Leonardo Marques, Audencia and Thomas Corre, Centrale Nantes
- Settling Dissonance: The Challenges of Impact Assessment Implementations - Hind Hissou, Université de Nantes
- Gender and Just Transition in the UN Climate Process and Beyond - Gabriela Balvedi Pimental, UN
- Workshop: Heutagogy: Supporting Student Agency in Tackling the SDGs - Jennifer Goodman & Catherine Morel
- What Does it Means to Bring Ecology into Teaching? - Thomas Martine, Audencia
- Research Identity - Céline Louche, University of Waikato
- Are Academic Life and Activism Compatible? A Meaningful Experience with the Maasai Tribe - Roberta Sferrazzo, Audencia
2023
- Silence and Activism - Gui Azevedo, Audencia
- Teaching in the Anthropocene Era: The Contribution of Fresks - Amélie Gabriagues, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
- PRME and Audencia - Emma Avetisyan, Audencia
- Workshop: Sustainability Teaching - Céline Louche & Heidi Reed, Audencia
- Writing Retreat - 1-day retreat for individual writing, together
2022
- L’entreprise et le bien commun - Sandrine Frémeaux
- Generating and Balancing Deliberative Capacity Through Boundary Work: Insights for a Sustainable Finance High-Level Expert Group - Stéphanie Giamporcaro, Nottingham Business School
- Giving Kenyan Marginalized Communities the Same Power as Central Banks: A Prefiguration of Sociotechnical Imaginaries - George Kuk and Stéphanie Giamporcaro, Nottingham Business School
- Mainstreaming the SDGs: Lessons from South Africa and Beyond - Willem Fourie, University of Pretoria
- Innovations Agri-Alimentaires : l’expérience des circuits courts numériques - Raphaël Stephens, UMR LISIS
- Writing Retreat - 1-day retreat for individual writing, together
- How ‘Place’ Guides Organizations Towards Sustainable Development - Haitao Yu, EM Lyon
- How Does Sustainable Supply Chain Management Contribute to the Generation of Innovation in Cooperatives from a Perspective of Shared Value - Gustavo Loiola, EAESP/FGV
2021
- Emotional (In)Competence in the Context of Strategic Ambiguity - Anna Dziuba, Hanken Business School and Johanna Moisander, Aalto University
- When the Private and the Public Self Don’t Align: The Discrepant Relation Between Moral Identity Dimensions, Corporate Hypocrisy Perceptions, and Subsequent Outcomes - Ramona Demasi, HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich
- Carbon Literacy Training - Tim Breitbarth, Swinburn University and Anna Gerke, Audencia
- Enhancing the Political Robustness of Liberal Democracy in the Age of Interactive Governance - Eva Sorensen, Roskilde University
- Le modèle de permaentreprise - Thomas Breuzard
- Lead for the Planet: The Challenge for Team Humanity - Rea Andre, D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston
- Pluralité monétaire : quelles monnaies pour la transition ? - Benoit du Crest
- Crash Course on Plastic - Olivier Humeau, Solution Recyclage
2024
- ROQUEBERT, C.-I., DEBUCQUET, G. (2024). Imagining beyond Nature-Culture Dualism: An Exploration of Ecological Justice. Organization, 31 (2), 221-246.
- AZEVEDO, G. (2024). The Interpretation of Organizational Ontologies. Journal of Management Inquiry, 33 (1), 46-61.
- BUFFA, V., TIRA, M., LE PENDEVEN, B. (2024). New Development: From Social Impact Bonds to Impact Bonds: an outcomes-based framework. Public Money and Management, 44 (1), 80-84.
- LABBE PINLON, B., LOMBART, C., BERGER, V., LOUIS, D. (2024). Patient satisfaction with Therapeutic Education in Oncology: antecedents, consequences, and the moderating effect of perceived value. Health Services Management Research, 37 (1), 43-51.
- DAGOUDO, B., VERSHININA, N., MURITHI, W. (2024). Women, Polygamy and Family Entrepreneuring in Southwest Benin: The role of Endogenous Knowledge. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 30 (9), 2304 - 2331.
- KOUZEZ, M., LEE, J. Y., MAHFOD-LEROUX, J. (2024). Investment in ESG activities and bank performance: does bank ownership matter? International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, 18 (4/5), 357-374.
2023
- SHYMKO, Y., ROULET, T., MELO PIMENTEL, B. (2023). The Façade, the Face, and the Sympathies: Opening the Black Box of Symbolic Capital as a Source of Philanthropic Attractiveness. Organization Science, 34 (2), 870-893.
- FREMEAUX, S., GREVIN, A., SFERRAZZO, R. (2023). Developing a Culture of Solidarity Through a Three-Step Virtuous Process: Lessons from Common Good-Oriented Organizations. Journal of Business Ethics, 188 (1), 89-105.
- HENNEKAM, S., RICHARD, S., ÖZBILGIN, M. F. (2023). How social structures influence the labour market participation of individuals with mental illness: a Bourdieusian perspective. Journal of Management Studies, 60 (1), 174-203.
- GOODMAN, J., MÄKINEN, J. (2023). Democracy in Political Corporate Social Responsibility: A Dynamic, Multi-Level Account. Business and Society, 62 (2), 250-284.
- VENARD, B., BARUCH, Y., CLOAREC, J. (2023). Consequences of corruption: determinants of public servants’ job satisfaction and performance. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34 (20), 3825-3856.
- FREMEAUX, S., VÖGTLIN, C. (2023). Strengthening Deliberation in Business: Learning From Aristotle’s Ethics of Deliberation. Business and Society, 62 (4), 824-859.
- HENNEKAM, S., DUMAZERT, J.-P. (2023). Intersectional (in)visibility of transgender employees with an ethnic minority background throughout a gender transition: four longitudinal case studies. Gender, Work and Organization, 30 (5), 1585-1610.
- BREITBARTH, T., MCCULLOUGH, B., COLLINS, A., GERKE, A., HEROLD, D. (2023). Environmental Matters in Sport: Sustainable Research in the Academy. European Sport Management Quarterly, 23 (1), 5-12.