faculty

The quality of the faculty is instrumental in giving  value to both the teaching  and the research process. There has been a marked increase in the number of full-time faculty and their academic qualification: as of September 2009, there were 51 full-time faculty (26 PhDs and 6 Doctorates in progress).
The faculty also comprises :

• 4 affiliate faculty members (with part-time contracts with the School)
  
• 400 adjunct faculty members (from other institutions or professionals who contribute their expertise to the teaching)
  
• 39 visiting faculty members, who come mostly from foreign partner universities.
  

The School is determined to increase its expertise in fundamental areas  which have been identified together with regional businesses and institutions. Since 2003, the School has developped its research resources and the structuring of its research activities. These efforts have led to a considerable increase in the number of publications and in the quality of intellectual contributions (academic, pedagogical and applied).

Research > Orientation

Since 2003, EM Normandie has initiated a dynamic approach to research activities that has led to the creation of the Métis Research Lab. Research is thus conducted in a focused and progressive approach to faculty encouragement and support, with well structured activities that guarantee a genuine and perennial presence of research within the School..

Research conducted at EM Normandie currently hinges on three potent tenets:

• practical intelligence, as characterized by the name given to the Métis Lab, which is an allusion to the fruitful and much required link between practice and academic thinking;
  
• a cross-disciplinary orientation, which acknowledges the variety of competencies at work in a Business School context,
  
• a move towards business professionals, which provides a forum for exchange between the business world and the academic community.

Topics for research within the Métis Lab spring from the School’s Mission, its distinctive competencies in pedagogy and the expectations of its economic partners. In this spirit, the School was able to define 4 priority axes for research that span a proportion of the faculty’s own research work.

                      Entrepreneurship and SMEs, 
                      Maritime and Port Management, 
                      Temporalities, Project, Organization, Strategy, 
                      Cross-cultural Inter-action Management.

Within and beyond this framework, the School has pursued academic research activities that have resulted in significant and continuous increase in the number of articles published in academic peer reviewed journals. This dynamism originates as well in the marked increase in faculty qualifications: 7 PhDs and two management research supervisory accreditations were thus defended in 2008 and 2009.

In recent years, EM Normandie has defined pedagogical research as one of its priorities to the extent that a ‘pedagogical hotbed’ was set up in September 2009, dedicated to case study writing, the sharing of pedagogical innovations between faculty members and the circulation of pedagogical and research knowledge. This scheme should lead, among other outcomes, to the publication of 5 co-authored books.

EM Normandie strives to bring valid answers to the economic actors in its territory, and more generally, to put its expertise at the service of practitioners thanks to applied research. As an economic actor, the Maritime and Port Management axis has thus become a must for many international port authorities and businesses in the port and maritime field.

Likewise, the Lower-Normandy Regional Council  has supported year after year since 2005, EM Normandie’s research activities, by commissioning to student junior consulting teams research work directly in tune with the expectations of economic actors in the Normandy territory

Finally, research within a School cannot exist and grow without strong links established with academic partners. The Métis Lab and the NIMEC (the Caen Basse Normandie and Rouen Universities Joint Research Lab) have thus entered in a formal partnership to carry out joint research work. EM Normandie has also put its research activities within the framework of the Polytechnicum de Normandie, which allows faculty whose doctorate is in progress to attend the EDOGEST training programme at Université Paris-Dauphine. The ‘Journées Georges Doriot’ , started in 2006 as a bi-annual colloquium, has allowed a closer link between research teams at EM Normandie, HEC Paris and Advancia Negocia.

More recently, EM Normandie has initiated a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Southampton as a first step towards further structured partnership. 

Dr OLIVIER Germain
dean for Research

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