The Alter-Management, Human Potentiel and Innovation axis (AMPHI)
Contact : Pierre Mathieu, Suzanne Apitsa

The Alter-Management, Human Potential, and Innovation (AMPHI) research axis studies the new rules of the managerial game imposed by the 21st-century economy, which is taking the form of a knowledge and creativity economy. More specifically, this axis focuses on new, so-called extreme management situations, which are exploratory in nature, new processes of employee empowerment and accountability, and new forms of human resource management.

The axis is structured around three thematic groups:
  • International Management (led by Suzanne Apitsa),
  • Anthropocene and Extremes (led by Emmanuel Bonnet),
  • Dynamics of Work and Organizational Models (led by Pierre Mathieu).
The research intersects with various disciplines within management science: Human Resource Management, Knowledge Management, and Strategic Management. Researchers in this axis regularly participate in the activities of research associations such as AIMS, AGRH, AGECSO, and EGOS. At the local level, we have been participating in the research work of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Clermont-Ferrand since the laboratory was attached to this institution.
The Finance, Information et Corporate Responsability axis (FIRE)
Contact : Mathieu Gomes, Guillaume Pijourlet

The work carried out within the axis can be grouped into three research programs :
- Quality of Information and Governance: Research in this area focuses on the link between the quality of financial reporting and corporate governance. For example, work focuses on the relations between: Financial regulation (SOX law, governance code) and income management,
- Information quality and forecasting of financial analysts, Shareholding structure and accounting and financial decisions.
- Risk Management and Financial Markets: Research focuses on the dynamics of financial markets and their impact on risk and portfolio construction. For example, work conducted as part of this research program focuses on: price dynamics in commodity and equity markets; investment decisions and insurance company risk; and valuation and recognition of assets in carbon markets.

The Strategy, Territory and networks of Actors axis (STeRA)

Contact : Christine Lambey-Checchin
 

This axis is structured in three research programs:

- Transformations of relational forms. These explore a variety of areas including the impact of digitalization on the positioning of actors, the collective and coopetitive strategies of private and / or public actors, power games, and individual and community relations.
- Public management and health management. This program focuses on the transformation processes of public organizations, particularly in the health sector. It studies the processes of stakeholder ownership and the implementation of public policies as well as the emerging strategies and managerial practices of public actors. These transformations are largely rooted in New Public Management and a form of emerging competition. The tensions generated by these evolutions and their manifestations are studied from managerial practices, values, strategic orientations and the instrumental dimension. This program, supported by the Health and Territories Research Chair, explores the ways in which actors bring about solutions to overcome tensions through collaborative approaches that are ‘built’ more than ‘prescribed’.
- Agribusiness that focusses on new forms of organizations within the agricultural and agri-food sector. The issues and pressures brought about by the globalization of markets and consumer habits tend to put significant pressure on the actors in the sectors. In response, the actors try to change their practices, whether the latter are technical (industrialization, logistic standards, labelling of agri-food products, short supply chains) or relational (governance). Ongoing research emphasizes and / or accompanies these changes and their consequences on the actors' performance and relationship satisfaction. The program is included in the Challenge 1 of the Clermont-Ferrand I-Site program.