Member – Nicolas BALAS

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Montpellier Management

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34,000 Montpellier

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Lecturer at the Montpellier Management Institute of the University of Montpellier since 2006. 

recent publications

Balas N. (2022), “Can Critical Management Education Catch On? An Experiment with the Equality Method at a Business School,” *Management International*, forthcoming.

Saadani, S., Balas, N., Rodhain, F. (2021) Manufacturing controversy: “reverse racism” as a backlash against anti-racist interventions in France. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, Issue 2, Volume 40, pp. 114–133

ROUSSEY, C., BALAS, N., PALPACUER, F. (2019), “Political CSR Initiatives as Levers of Marginalization: The Disconnect between Representatives and the So-Called Represented in the Mining Industry,” Critical Perspectives on International Business, vol. ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print. – CNRS 4

GAIDOS, A., PALPACUER, F., and BALAS, N. (2017), “Social Innovation as Practice: Exploring the Entanglement of Political and Managerial Logics,” International Journal of Work Innovation, vol. 2, no. 2–3.

books

BALAS, N., and PALPACUER, F. (2016), “Financialization of Global Value Chains and Implications for Local Development” in *Finance and Industrial Policy: Beyond Financial Regulation in Europe*, Oxford University Press.

Balas, N. (2022), “Pierre Bourdieu: (Re)discovering His Critical Sociology of Management and Putting It to Work,” in M. Bidan and P.-Y. Livian (eds.), Major Authors at the Frontiers of Management, Chapter 3, 43–53.

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Master's Degree in Organizational Management and Sustainable Development

Research area:  

  • Critical Perspectives in Management
  • Strategic Controversies
  • Social innovation
  • Management of Alternative Organizations
course

2023: Qualification to Supervise Research (HDR), Business and Management Sciences

2006–2011: PhD in Management Science 

2005–2006: Master’s degree in research, management science