
RESEARCH AT BSB
THE LINCHPIN OF RESEARCH: CEREN
BSB’s mission is to train managers with insight, who can put their owns actions into perspective. In this context, research is a great path to learning as it cultivates critical analysis, structuring reasoning and seeing things from a higher perspective.
The knowledge produced by our research is aimed at the academic community by publishing in the best national and international journals in Management Sciences and Economics, at our students, but also at public and private organizations that wish to be supported in their decision-making and prepared for the upcoming challenges, as well as at civil society, since we consider that the role of our research is to enlighten the public debate.
Since 2003, CEREN, Burgundy School of Business (BSB)’s Corporate Research Center, labelled Équipe d’Accueil by the French directorate general for higher education and professionnal insertion (DGESIP) [Direction Générale de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de l’Insertion Professionnel], brings together the school’s research activities and French and international professors/researchers around six research axes related to Management Sciences and Economics.


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CEREN, Burgundy School of Business (BSB)’s Corporate Research Center engages in research projects funded by the European Commission in the context of the framework program for research and innovation, the French national research agency (ANR), or the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region.
The impact of the research on organizations is also one of the CEREN objectives. This is why CEREN engages in research projects under partnerships and Research Chairs, with the additional will to contribute to the territory. Based on valid and rigorous scientific methodologies, our researchers elaborate responses to the issues raised by our partners in the professional world - including most recently, to name just a few, the national police academy École Nationale Supérieure de la Police (ENSP), Orange S.A., the Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (FGB), the Vitagora competitiveness hub, the Fonds de dotation Keyros and the regional public learning institution Pupilles de l’Enseignement Public du Centre de la Bourgogne- Franche-Comté (PEP BFC).
Since October 2019, LESSAC (Laboratory for Experimentation in Social Sciences and Behavioral Analysis) is involved in the ISITE-BFC project, supported by UBFC under the “International Coach Fellowships” program. The project provides to researchers the possibility of benefitting from the operational advices of Professor Uri Gneezy, internationally renowned researcher in Economics and Strategy.

GOOD is a HEU funded research project that aspiresto create, implement and assess Agroecological Weed Management (AWM) practices,
systemsand protocols, and to demonstrate, under real farm conditions, how the adoptionof AWM can strongly reduce the use of synthetic herbicides, enhance sustainability, productivity, andresilience of cropping systems.

GLAMMONS is a HEU funded research project that is framed conceptually by the commons theory to explore the potential of GLAMs to function as part of commons social systems in the field of cultural production.

REVINE is a PRIMA funded research project that aims to increase the resilience tobiotic and abiotic stresses of vineyards by using regenerative agriculturalsystems able to favor soil health and agro-system biodiversity.

IPM Decisions is a H2020 funded research project thatwill create an online platform that is easy to use for the monitoring andmanagement of pests. This platform will give farmers and advisers access to alarge range of existing Decision Support Systems for their regional conditions.

PrimeWater is a H2020 funded research project that generates information on the effects of upstream changes on future water quality and quantity […]

Be·aware is a ANR funded research project that explores how augmented reality (AR) systems can reduce the spatial and temporal distance between people’s choices and their environmental impact.

An expert of the CEREN is conducting the national case study for France as part of research study on entrepreneurship competences in vocational education and training.

DEFI-ENV – Acteurs d’influence dans la prise en compte des défis environnementaux par les organisations : clients, organisations syndicales, institutions et réglementations.
COVID-ENT – Résilience des entreprises face à la crise de la Covid-19 et soutien public.
CROWDFUND – Succès des plateformes de crowdfunding : communication et communauté.
IACITE – L’Intelligence Artificielle, une technologie révolutionnaire qui transforme la vie des citoyens.

GrICRiS is a ANR funded research project that proposed new ways of incorporating behavioral arguments in the creativity-innovation channel related to green products and services.

In October 2019, Uri Gneezy, one of the world’s top experts in behavioral economics, has joined BSB as an international coach for three years. He worked alongside young researchers to spur new ideas to turn them into innovative and competitive research subjects that can be submitted to the ERC.

Punch is a ANR funded collaborative project which aimed at providing efficient proposals in order to favor healthier eating behavior in children (3 months-11 years), beyond traditional approaches based on health-related information. Eating behavior will be studied in qualitative (“what” is eaten) and quantitative (“how much” is eaten) terms.

BSB was a research partner in the DIGITUP project supported by Luxembourg National Research Fund. The objective of the project was to investigate the consequences of the digitalization of work on teleworkers during the COVID-19 firstlockdown.

Coops – Cooperatives in BFC (bank,wine,..): recommendations and reflection ongovernance and CSR.
Mission
The Burgundy School of Business Research Ethics Committee (CER-BSB) is intended to promote ethical reflection in research practices, to assist principal investigators (PIs) in this regard, and to issue, at the request of the PIs, formal research ethics approvals for the realisation of any research protocol in Social Sciences and Humanities involving human participants or personal data. Any BSB researcher can apply to the CER-BSB for review and research ethics approval. Any person who undertakes research at BSB involving studying human subjects may refer to the CER-BSB to obtain a formal research ethics approval and/or recommendations on the ethical issues raised by said research.
Supports and procedures
Procedure for Ethical Review*
Fill in Research Ethics Checklist**
Responses to this questionnaire will determine immediately if the researcher will need to submit a full application for ethics approval to the BSB Ethics Committee. If you have answered NO to all the questions in the research Ethics Checklist, the completion of the questionnaire is sufficient. Your study is automatically approved and can start immediately.
In all other cases, you will need to explain why it is necessary for the research project to be performed in this way, and the steps you are taking to remedy the potential ethical concern. This full application form will then be submitted for ethics approval to the BSB Ethics Committee.
Two reviewers will review your application in a 2-weeks-period. If both reviewers approve the application, you are notified, and you can proceed with your study.
If not, a third reviewer will review the project within a further 2 weeks. Applicants will be notified of the Ethics Committee’s decision as soon as possible after the reviewing process in writing.
** Teacher portal on E-CAMPUS, icon Research Ethics Committee
Procedure for Ethical Issues
Please declare all your research using personal data to the Data Protection Officer by email : dpo@bsb-education.com
Researchers should also obtain informed Consent form from each participant in the study.