Member – CRESPO-FEBVAY Anne-Valérie

Anne-Valérie CRESPO-FEBVAY

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Disciplinary Group: Organizations

ORCID: ORCID 0009-0009-6908-789X

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A.-V. CRESPO-FEBVAY is an associate researcher at Montpellier Research in Management, Organizations group .

She was previously a doctoral student in the Human Resources group and served as secretary for the cross-functional management and responsible practices division between 2017 and 2022. 

She has also been involved in the AGRH's Territories, CSR, and Innovations group since 2016.

Within the HR and MRM Organizations groups, hisresearch illustrates a "grounded and embodied" micro-CSR (thesis defense in November 2023, 1st prize for the ADERSE-ORSE 2024 thesis). It focuses primarily on issues of organizational transformation by middle managers. They explore the new frontiers of organizations and work and propose "horizontal reticular alignment" to complement intra-organizational social responsibility strategies. His fields of study are companies in particular, organizations in the broader sense, and inter-organizational collectives. They outline how managers/citizens can take the "initiative to play a more societal role."

The epistemological stance adopted stems from sociology and requires a certain level of expertise as a practitioner: observant participation (Soulé, 2007). This academic approach aims to "overcome the apparent contradictions of the participant observation stance in order to fully and honestly embrace the intersubjectivities of fieldwork," p.131 (Soulé, 2007). In addition to rare access to the field with legitimacy, trust, and valuable knowledge of codes and terminology, this approach allows practitioners to be involved in the production of knowledge and proves to be a strength in the managerial sharing of scientific knowledge.

Science communication is a driving force of research. This seems to me to be particularly inherent in Section 06, in order to intertwine research with society and promote bridges with managers from the socio-economic world to co-create academic knowledge that can be "operationalized" in management to advance society.

Disseminating scientific and managerial knowledge to students is also an important objective. The content and pedagogical approach of the lectures have evolved over the past 10 years and now combine practical examples, academic perspective, and pedagogical innovations. The lectures are based on numerous practical examples and precise scientific knowledge to build, and often co-build with students, a lively and adaptable teaching method that they are fond of. Learning is based on everyday situations in companies, government agencies, or associations in order to understand the conceptual drivers through the use of critical thinking, which is the foundation for developing learners' skills, whether in executive education, work-study programs, or continuing education.

Related research activities

Committee members Scientific: AGRH, research seminar "Humanism, Management, and Environment," April 10, 2025, ISTEC Paris

Member of the scientific validation committee of the CIRSE management journal (International CSR Congress 2024 and 2025, "The journal bridging the gap between academia and the professional world on the subject of CSR"), www.congresinternationaldelarse.com, since 2024

Chair research program leader: Program No. 9 "Responsible Engagement, Businesses, and Territories," MIND Chair "Building Living, Inclusive, and Engaged Organizations," M. Jaeck and M. Meyer, Montpellier Business School, since 2022

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Lab Chair , directed by K. Messeghem, Montpellier Management, since 2024

Fieldwork-related assignments 

President of the National Observatory of Partnerships since December 2025, administrator of the LeRAMEAU applied research laboratory since October 14, 2025

Co-Leader of GIP (Groupement d’Intérêt Public national) "Les entreprises s’engagent (pour l’innovation sociale)" (Companies Commit to Social Innovation), since January 2024. Initiated by the President of the Republic in 2018, co-founded by businesses and the Ministry of Labor and Employment/France Travail in 2022, 100,600 businesses involved nationally in 101 departmental clubs, around 2,000 businesses in Occitanie, and 80 in Hérault.

Treasurer, Fondation Agir Contre l’Exclusion Occitanie (7 clubs, associations under the 1901 law, present in 8 of the region's 13 departments, 72 employees), involved since 2008, particularly in Hérault and Gard, in Occitanie 382 member companies, and 1,471 involved in actions

Administrator at MLJ3M - Mission Locale des Jeunes de la Métropole de Montpellier Méditerranée (committed to mentoring young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods since 2008). Representative of the partners' college, comprising 34 companies. 10,500 young people supported annually.