Introduction

Pr.Jacques Igalens

Director of Research Department

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Over the last thirty years the links between academic research and business and the economy have seen massive growth. The leading business schools have ongoing pressure therefore to ensure the relevance and quality of their research towards these stakeholders. This relationship is of mutual advantage and our students are of course the first to benefit in the knowledge that their training is both up to date and of added value to the professional world they enter. Indeed they are the 'pilotes de changement', those best equipped to embrace and steer change to advance their respective company.

This conviction is the core of the school's activities and accordingly there are two main directions of research at Toulouse Business School. Firstly, teacher / researchers at TBS actively engage in professional associations, communicating their expertise and ongoing learning in the most internationally renowned scientific journals. Secondly our research teams are focused on the needs of the business world, participating in the national and international forum of research tendering.

At a local level, partnerships with several doctoral schools are training the researchers of tomorrow through our supervision of their research today. Our Management Research Centre groups five distinct areas:

• Entrepreneurship and Strategy
• Financial Economics
• Marketing, Internet and Communication
• New Practices in Management
• Work, Employment and Health

Three cross domain themes, defined in partnership with regional skills clusters, make up the permanent research axes: Aero-spatial Sector Management, Health Systems Management, Agriculture and Foodstuffs Sector Management

Our international scientific advisory committee is made up of the following members :

• Catherine Casamatta,' Professeur des Universités', Director of the 'Institut d'Administration des Entreprises de Toulouse'
• Marc Filser, Professor at the 'Université de Bourgogne', Dijon
  Professor Bob Fryer, CBE, National Director for Widening Participation in Learning at the Department of Health, UK
• Professor Lars Magnusson, Vice Rector Uppsala University. Research Director Arbetslivsinstiutet, Stockholm
• Karim Mignonac, 'Professeur des Universités', Director of the 'Ecole Doctorale Sciences de gestion, Université Toulouse I Capitole'
• David Otley, Professor of Accounting and Management, Lancaster School of Management
• Marc Péré, Director 'Général du Pôle' Aerospace Valley
• Patrick Rey,' Professeur des Universités', Director of the 'Institut d'Economie Industrielle, IDEI, Université Toulouse I Capitole'
• Patrice Roché, Director of the 'Pôle de compétitivité Agrimip Innovation'
• Professor Tae Hoon Oum, UPS Foundation Professor, University of British Columbia
• Jean-Pierre Saintouil, Director of the 'Pôle de compétitivité Cancer-Bio-Santé'