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Research Fellow at LISER (Luxembourg Institute of Socio Economic research), I received a PhD in Economics from University Nancy 2 and an accreditation to supervise research (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, HDR) from University Rennes 1. My research interests are broadly concerned with the Knowledge society. I analyse the effects of the Internet on social capital and happiness. I also analyse the adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility and the relationship between CSR and innovation, eco-innovation, green IT.
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January 2005 - present
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November 1998
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This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation from a firm strategic perspective. Matching Community Innovation Survey data with specific data collected about the CSR behaviour of Luxembourg firms, the authors identify two types of firms (strategic versus responsive) that differ in the intensity of...
Within developed countries, the market penetration of cell phones and the Internet has progressed in tandem and the point of market saturation is nearly to be reached in both markets. In contrast, the African continent has been characterized by a more uneven level of progress, with the penetration of cell phones (41% in 2010) considerably outpacing...
Despite the increased strategic importance of environmental innovation on the one hand and corporate social responsibility on the other, there are still few studies that show firm voluntary measures create a primary determinant of environmental changes. First, we clarify the meaning of voluntary measures and CSR. Second, we utilize a survey carried...
As people are spending more time online, it is important to evaluate the impact of Internet use on individual well-being. Internet use yields direct utility and economic returns (e.g. better job, higher productivity) that may increase life satisfaction. But the Internet might also have detrimental effects (addiction, social isolation, e.g.). This p...
This paper examines the persistence of innovation behaviour at the firm level (manufacturing and services sectors). We attempt to answer the question: does being successful in past innovation activities increase the probability of being successful in current innovation activities? We contribute to the literature by explicitly distinguishing between...
Increased connectivity between employees and their organization complicates managing information flows and constant availability via e-mail. We classify employees’ e-mail experiences using e-mail into groups of e-mail overload based on a boundary perspective and assess its impact, and coping mechanisms, from a coping perspective, on subjective well...
The adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has implications for a company's relationships with its stakeholders. Specifically, by engaging in social dialogue, companies can promote direct relationships with employees, or indirect relationships with them, through elected staff representatives. This study investigates the relationships bet...
During the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, the proportion of employees who worked from home increased sharply, which increased the use of digital tools. In this context, we study how teleworkers improved their digital skills. More specifically, we ask whether the lockdown was an opportunity for teleworkers to increase their digital skills and whethe...
With the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR), firms are invited to identify, consult and take into account the expectations of their stakeholders. In this context, firms are expected to promote direct relationships with their employees while employee participation traditionally took the form of indirect institutional participation via...
Diversity management is a crucial element of organizational performance, yet little is known about its role in supporting the internationalization of SMEs. Relying on resource-based theory and resource orchestration, this article provides a novel view on four perspectives of diversity management-resistance, discrimination, access-and-legitimacy, an...
Information and communication technologies supported by mobile devices (laptops, smartphones, tablets) have enhanced the ability for employees to stay connected with their companies outside working hours. However, we have little understanding of the implications for employees’ subjective well-being. This paper aims to analyze the impact of two form...
De nombreuses études analysent l’impact du télétravail et les déterminants de l’innovation. Toutefois, rares sont celles qui analysent la relation entre ces deux formes d’innovations, sociale (le télétravail) et technologique (produit ; procédé). Cet article a pour objectif de contribuer à la compréhension de cette relation. Pour ce faire, une enqu...
Both corporate social responsibility (CSR) and diversity determine firms’ value creation, yet their relationship and links to innovation remain uncertain, especially for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Anchored in strategic CSR and value-in-diversity perspectives, this study relies on a sample of 1,348 SMEs from Luxembourg to reveal that...
This contribution explores how corporate social responsibility (CSR) might influence the adoption of sustainable innovation. Previous research reveals that CSR effects depend on the specific CSR practices considered; this study accordingly investigates different measures of CSR practices with a strategic perspective: strategic versus responsive CSR...
A growing body of literature concerns innovation persistence, but does not deal with environmental innovation, which is an important topic in the context of global warming. In this paper, we contribute to this literature by testing whether environmental innovators are persistent. Our empirical approach rests on the use of Community Innovation Surve...
The few studies that analyze the impact of a combined strategy of innovation and corporate social
responsibility (CSR) on firm performance mostly focus on financial performance. In contrast, the current study considers the simultaneous impact of technological innovations (product and process) and CSR on firm growth, which provides a measure of medi...
This paper aims to fill a gap in the field of determinants of environmental innovation by investigating whether non-technological innovations and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) matter for environmental innovation. Our empirical analysis studies a sample of innovators from Luxembourg. We draw on the Community Innovation Survey 2008 and a CSR...
This paper aims to fill a gap in the field of determinants of environmental innovation by investigating whether non-technological innovations and corporate social responsibility matter for environmental innovation. Our empirical analysis studies a sample of innovators from Luxembourg. We draw on the Community Innovation Survey and a corporate socia...
This paper seeks to identify the characteristics of firms that choose to transfer all or at least part of the fulfilment of their information technology needs to an outside party. The authors focus both on outsourcing and on offshoring. With a statistical approach, based on a large and nationally representative data set at the firm unit level, the...
There are few studies of the impact of firms’ voluntary measures in terms of the determinants of environmental change. This paper aims to address this gap by examining the role played by corporate social responsibility in the adoption of Green IT. We consider two different corporate social responsibility policies and different typologies of Green I...
Les problèmes ne sont presque jamais donnés, mais doivent être définis et contextualisés par le décideur (Marengo, 1995). Dans ce texte nous proposons une vision du rôle des managers dans le processus de croissance/développement des connaissances des organisations fondée sur la théorie des organisations et l'analyse évolutionniste de la firme. L'ét...
This paper seeks to identify the characteristics of firms that choose to transfer all or at least part of the fulfilment of their information technology needs to an outside party. We focus both on outsourcing and on offshoring. With a statistical approach, based on a large and nationally representative data set at the firm unit level, we look at th...
Cette étude aborde la question de l’adoption des technologies vertes ou Green IT. Elle cherche à savoir si l’adoption des Green IT est motivée par des facteurs économiques (réduction des coûts), des facteurs réputationnels mais aussi si elle est l’expression de la démarche de Responsabilité Sociale de l’Entreprise (RSE). Elle tend par là-même à rép...
This paper examines the persistence of innovation behaviour at the firm level (in the manufacturing and services sectors). We attempt to answer the question of whether being successful in past innovation activities increase the probability of being successful in current innovation activities. We contribute to the literature by explicitly distinguis...
The few studies that analyze the impact of a combined strategy of innovation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firm performance mostly focus on financial performance. In contrast, the current study considers the simultaneous impact of technological innovations (product and process) and CSR on firm growth, which provides a measure of medi...
Cette communication aborde la question de l’adoption des technologies vertes ou Green IT. Elle cherche à savoir si l’adoption des Green IT est motivée par des facteurs économiques (réduction des coûts), des facteurs réputationnels mais aussi si elle est l’expression de la démarche de Responsabilité Sociale de l’Entreprise (RSE). Elle tend par là-mê...
There are still few studies that show firm voluntary measures create a primary determinant of environmental changes. We clarify the meaning of voluntary measures and CSR. We utilize a survey carried out in Luxemburg on firm CSR practices jointly with the Community Innovation Survey 2008. We show through the estimation of a probit model that CSR is...
Cet article aborde le thème de la gouvernance de la sécurité de l’information. Pour pallier les faiblesses relevées dans la littérature, il explore (i) le processus d’engagement des organisations dans la gouvernance de la sécurité de l’information et (ii) les pratiques de gouvernance de la sécurité de l’information des organisations engagées dans l...
Within developed countries, the penetration of cell phones and the Internet has risen in tandem and the point of market saturation has nearly been reached in both markets. In contrast, the African continent has been characterized by more uneven progress, with the penetration of cell phones (41% in 2010) considerably outpacing the penetration of the...
Dans ce papier nous partons de l’idée fondatrice que la Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises pouvait être « assimilée » à une innovation technologique. L’hypothèse de travail est que les schémas d’adoption de la RSE présentent des analogies avec le processus d’adoption de l’innovation technologique. A partir de données issues d’une enquête réalis...
Dans les pays développés, la téléphonie mobile et l?Internet ont suivi des trajectoires A l?inverse, le continent africain se caractérise par des processus de diffusion asynchrones, la pénétration de la téléphonie mobile (41% fin 2010) étant bien supérieure à celle de l?Internet (9,7%). Partant de ce constat d?une fracture numérique duale en Afriqu...
This paper explores the relationship between different Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies and innovation. Using a survey carried out on CSR behavior of Luxembourg firms, we found two types of firms as far as CSR practices are concerned. Cluster 1 firms adopted CSR practices to achieve economic goals without resorting to the formalizat...
Cette contribution vise deux objectifs principaux. Le premier objectif est de décrire la situation des entreprises implantées au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg vis-à-vis de la Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises (RSE). Plus précisément, nous cherchons à savoir dans quelle mesure les entreprises connaissent ce concept, quelles sont les entreprises qui...
This communication proposes a model to explain practices of IT services offshoring based on four research hypotheses derived from the literature of the field. These hypotheses were tested in a quantitative survey of thirty-nine French and Luxembourg large companies. The results of the study complement existing work. In addition, they allow us to bu...
This paper aims to understand how Internet users may improve their social capital by investing in online social activities. We argue that the Internet can be a convenient and efficient means of maintaining existing social ties and/or of creating new ties. We seek to identify the determinants of online investments in social capital and the nature of...
Dans ce papier nous utilisons des données d’enquêtes auprès d’entreprises du Luxembourg, l’une sur les pratiques d’innovation (CIS 2006), l’autre sur les comportements de RSE (effectuée en 2008). Nous mettons en évidence l’existence d’une relation forte, statistiquement significative, entre le fait d’être une entreprise innovante et le fait d’adopt...
In this paper, we study CSR industrial firm behaviour in relation with social dialogue in two countries (France and Luxemburg). We address this topic by asking if two countries having different forms of social dialogue are able to induce even levels of incentives to implement social responsibility. Data collected through two surveys onto industrial...
Dans ce papier, nous mettons en �vidence l?existence d?une relation entre le fait d?�tre une entreprise innovante et d?adopter une d�marche RSE. Trois propositions sont test�es : (1) il y a une liaison directe et positive au niveau des entreprises entre un comportement d?innovation technologique et la mise en oeuvre de pratiques relevant de la RSE,...
This paper aims to understand how Internet users may improve their social capital by investing in online social activities. We argue that the Internet can be a convenient and efficient means of maintaining existing social ties and/or of creating new ties. We seek to identify the determinants of online investments in social capital and the nature of...
IT outsourcing is a very important approach for firms, in particular, to reduce costs and/or to focus on its core business. To deepen the literature focused on the analysis of the adoption process of IT outsourcing, this paper seeks to identify the characteristics of firms that choose to transfer all at least a part of the production of their IT ne...
This paper aims to understand the impact of the Internet on social capital. Does the Internet usage influence the investments in social networks? First, we theoretically address this question with a micro-economic model of social capital. Second, thanks to Luxembourg data, we evaluate the determinants of the investments in social capital via the In...
L'objectif de cet article est d'étudier le rôle d'Internet dans la formation du capital social. L'usage d'Internet a-t-il un impact sur la nature et l'intensité des investissements d'un individu dans des réseaux sociaux formels et informels ? Cette question est d'abord examinée d'un point de vue théorique à l'aide d'un modèle microéconomique d'inve...
44, rue Emile Mark, B.P. 48 | L-4501 Differdange ; nicolas.poussing@ceps.lu Le but de ce papier est de repérer les principaux déterminants qui impulsent les comportements relevant de la Responsabilité sociale (RSE) des entreprises. Les principaux résultats des études empiriques [De La Cuesta et Valor ; 2004, Caroll, 1999 ; Delchet, 2006] montrent q...
The aim of this communication is to analyse the Internet's contribution in the social capital inequality. Does the Internet usage increase or decrease the gap between individuals who have an important social capital (a large social network) and individuals who have a limited social capital? Firstly, we will analyse this question at a theoretical le...
The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) usages facilitate the contact of the firms with external structures. In consequence, firms can create new opportunities by finding new partners in other countries. In that changing context, we were wondering if there is a difference in the ICT usages between firms having partners only located in...
Cette contribution se penche sur la mise en ?uvre de la RSE au sein des entre-prises. Elle s?articule autour de deux parties. La première partie présente les principaux textes sur lesquels les entreprises fondent leurs actions RSE. Nous présenterons en particulier les grandes lignes de la norme ISO 26000 qui a été publiée le 1er novembre 2010. La d...
With data collected in Brittany and in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, this paper will present the usage of Internet for the individuals living in these two geographic areas. In a first part, this article will highlight the existence, in Brittany as well as in Luxembourg, of the different penetration rates depending on the characteristics of the ind...
Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Nancy II, 1998.
