Member – Olivier Torres

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Montpellier Management

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Olivier TORRÈS is a university professor.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
  • MUKERJEE J., THURIK R., TORRES O., WISMANS A., (2023), “Measuring organizational play in small businesses,”ManagementReviewQuarterly, 1-34, DOI 10.1007/s11301-023-00363-3.
  • THURIK R, BENZARI A, FISCH C, MUKERJEE J, TORRES O, (2023), Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologiesEntrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36:1-2, 136-161, DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2165713. *
  • TORRES O, GUILIANI F, THURIK R, (2022), “Entrepreneurship and health: an existential perspective,”Journal of Entrepreneurship, Special Issue 2, Vol. 21, pp. 11–32.*
  • Finally, is it possible to specify on my academic record that it was supervised by Patrick JOFFRE?
  • Annelot Wismans, Peter van der Zwan, Karl Wennberg, Ingmar Franken, Jinia Mukerjee, Rui Baptista, Jorge Barrientos Marín, Andrew Burke, Marcus Dejardin, Frank Janssen, Srebrenka Letina, José María Millán, Enrico Santarelli, Olivier Torrès, Roy Thurik (2022), “Face Mask Use Motives of Students during the COVID 19 Pandemic: Egoistic, Altruistic or Rule Abiding?”, BMC (BioMedCentral) Public Health.
  • Stephan, U., P. Zbierowski, A. Pérez-Luño, A. Klausen, M. A., Cabañas, E. Barki, A. Benzari, C. Bernhard-Oettel, J. Boekhorst, A. Dash, A. Efendic, C. Eib, P-J. Hanard, M. Holienka, T. Iakovleva, S. Kawakatsu, S. Khalid, Z. Kovacicová, M. Leatherbee, J. Li, S. K. Parker, J. Qu, F. Rosati, S. Sahasranamam, M. A. Y. Salusse, T. Sekiguchi, N. Thomas, O. Torrès, M. Hoang Tran, D. Wach, M. K. Ward, J. Wiklund, A. J. Williamson, and M. Zahid, (forthcoming), "Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the Covid-19 Pandemic," Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, doi.org/10.1177/10422587221104820.
  • Bah T, Kinowski-Moysan C, Torrès O, Gaillon D (forthcoming), "Typological study of the meaning and causes of suicide among SME owners and managers in France and Italy," Revue Internationale PME.
  • Benzari A, Khedhaouria A, Torrès O, Cucchi A (forthcoming), “The impact of technostress on small-business owners’ burnout: The mediating role of strain,” International Journal Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
  • Torres O., Benzari A., Swalhi A., and Thurik R. (2021) Lockdown and the risk of burnout among SME owner-managers: the syndrome of impeded exhaustion, Revue Internationale PME (RIPME), Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 62–80.
  • Torrès, O., Benzari, A., Fisch, C.H., Mukerjee, J., Swalhi, A., and Thurik, R. (2022). Risk of burnout in French entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis. Small Business Economics, Vol. 58, pp. 717–739.
WORKS
  • TORRES O. and C. MOYSAN, (2019) "Psychosocial risks in the workplace: the case of managers," pp. 201-211 in BAHUON A.P and J.J. PLUCHART (coordinated by), Business transformation, Consulting, accounting, and legal professions in the phygital era, Editions Vuibert, 250p.
  • TORRES O. (2018), "Some thoughts on the unspoken and unacknowledged suffering of employers and the (poor) mental health of business leaders," in The Suffering of Entrepreneurs: Understanding to Take Action and Prevent Suicide, (DS) BINNIE M, DOUILLARD J.L. and M. FEVRE, Presses de l'EHESP, 344p.
  • TORRES O. (2017), “SMEs, Permanent Third Estate,” pp. 58–70 in Sociétal (edited by Jean Marc DANIEL and Frédéric MONLOUIS FELICITE), Eyrolles.
  • LECHAT T. & O. TORRES (2016), “Exploring the negative affective events of entrepreneurial activity: Their experience on emotional stress and contribution to burnout risk,” pp.69-99 in Emotions and Organizational Governance – Research on Emotion in Organizations (DS. ASHKANASY N.M. HARTEL C.H.J., ZERBE W.J.), vol. 12, Emerald, Bingley, 475p.
  • MESSEGHEM K. and O. TORRES (2015), "Entrepreneurship and SMEs: from knowledge to recognition of a discipline," pp. 5-26 in Les grands auteurs en Entrepreneuriat et PME (Great Authors in Entrepreneurship and SMEs), Editions EMS, 496p.
  • SCHMITT C. and O. TORRES (2015), "Pierre-André Julien: From the Specificity of SMEs to the Complexity of Entrepreneurship," pp. 327-349 in Les grands auteurs en Entrepreneuriat et PME (Great Authors in Entrepreneurship and SMEs), Editions EMS, 496p.
FUNCTIONS AND RESEARCH

Functions:

  • Chair of the Scientific Council of LABEX Entreprendre.
  • Chair of the MBS Scientific Integrity Committee.
  • Founder of Amarok – Institute for Entrepreneurial Health – member of the Rebound Portal.
  • Member of the French team of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM).
  • Head of the Master's 1 & 2in International Management of SMEs.

Searches:

His research focuses on the health of heritage entrepreneurs (retailers, artisans, independent professionals, farmers, managers of small and medium-sized businesses, etc.).

CURRICULUM VITAE
  • PhD Management Sciences under the supervision of Michel MARCHESNAY (1997).
  • Qualification to supervise research in Management Sciences under the supervision of Patrick JOFFRE (2004).