Students - PhD programme - EMLYON Business School

Students

Current & past students

	MOHIT ANAND Indian, entered Sept. 2007 Mohit hails from New Delhi (India). His research focuses on the impact of international joint ventures on corporate innovation in emerging markets. He is currently working on case studies and exploratory interviews to strengthen his theoretical foundation. He presented his initial work at Imperial college (London) and IIM (Ahmedabad). His experience at EMLYON since Sept. 2007 has been truly enriching and satisfying. Besides finding research gaps, Mohit loves traveling, indology and is also the founder of Delhi Star Gazing club.
	JANICE BYRNE Irish, entered Sept. 2007 Janice hails from Dublin but has been living in Lyon since April 2006. Her current research involves a hopskotch of management education, entrepreneurship and creativity (innovation). Her research interests sprung from her passion for education, experience in adult education and curiousity in all things entrepreneurial! She loves Lyon for its pretty streets, night lights and great restaurants...
	GIOVANY CAJAIBA-SANTANA Brazilian, entered Sept. 2007 33 year old, married, father of one lovely girl. His research arena is entrepreneurship, specifically social entrepreneurship and social innovation. He struggles with the analysis of qualitative data and institutional and actor network theories in order to come up with a model to guide future research in the those contexts. He used to play chess games these last months…
	MATHIEU-CLAUDE CHABOUD French, entered Sept. 2008 Prior to joining the doctoral program in Management, Mathieu-Claude worked in various companies at international levels and has been a consultant and lecturer for the last five years. His research interests include mergers and acquisitions, ethics, and cross-cultural management.
	ASMA FATTOUM Tunisian, entered Sept. 2008 Asma already holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Lyon, but she decided to switch to management. Her main research interests include corporate governance, IPO valuation and the management of innovation.
	OLIVIER GIVET French, entered Sept. 2007
	SEONG-YOUNG KIM Korean, entered Sept. 2008 After a Bachelor in management in SungKyunKwan University in Seoul and 7 years of professional experience in international trading, he completed a Master in International Management in Toulouse University’ business school (IAE) in France. His research area is in strategic management and organizational behavior.
	RASMI KOKASH Syrian, entered Sept 2008 Passionate to cultural diversity, Rasmi comes from Damascus, Syria. Spearheaded with a dedication to contribute to the ongoing and profound change of global healthcare, Rasmi has entered a metamorphic process and is keen to focus on institutional behaviors and their sense making processes. A social entrepreneur, never gets tired to seek and be involved in activities of cultural value. Loves to jog, swim and fly.
	KAVITA PANWAR Indian, entered Sept. 2007
	PhD CANDIDATES (ABD) CAROLINE COULOMBE Canadian, entered Sept. 2007, ABD Coming from Montréal, Caroline is jointly enrolled at HEC Montréal and EMLYON Business School. She started in January 2005 but had two kids meanwhile. Caroline’s dissertation is on business ethics. She is particularly interested by the pluralist aspect of ethical frameworks that can be found in organizations. She is comparing the frameworks used in organizations in France and Canada.
	GREGOIRE CROIDIEU French, entered Sept. 2006, ABD, on the job market Grégoire’s research area is in Organization and Management Theory. In his dissertation, he studies institutional change and persistence at multiple levels of analysis. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are mixed to analyze conflicts between institutional logics at a global level of analysis, diffusion of innovations at a regional level, and compliance and resistance to change at an organizational level. The empirical setting is the wine industry, a decision he keeps savouring.
	ANINO EMUWA Nigerian, entered Sept. 2006, ABD Anino did her undergraduate (LSE) and graduate (MBA, Cranfield) studies in the UK before joining EMLYON Business School. She is jointly enrolled at Nottingham Business School. In her research, she studies how SMEs can access capital through commercial banks in the context of developing countries. More specifically, what she brings in the picture is an in-depth analysis of the context, including institutions such as judiciary, property registries, taxation, etc.
	ALAN JOHNSON Irish, entered Sept. 2006, ABD, on the job market Alan’s research area is in organizational behavior. In his dissertation, he studies workgroup interaction and and its consequences for work motivation and various interim outcomes. To do so, he analyzes debate and conflict longitudinally and at multiple levels of analysis. He is famous for teasing people, running complicated statistical models, and organizing pubs tours in downtown Lyon.
	NARJISSE LASSAS-CLERC Moroccan/French, entered Sept. 2006, ABD, on the job market Narjisse was born and grew up in Casablanca. She has been part-time lecturer and research assistant since September 2004 and joined the PhD Program in September 2006. Now near completion and on the job market! Narjisse focuses in her dissertation on entrepreneurship education initiatives and their effects on individuals in terms of learning and motivational outcomes. Her research is mainly in entrepreneurship. Though, educational psychology and organizational behavior are the closest areas of interest. Her main outside interests are travel, reading, walking, cooking and spending time with her family, friends (and dogs!). Narjisse has interest in further training to specific coaching methods and personal development techniques. Her future plans also include learning new things, teaching and developing entrepreneurship training programs, publishing current work, lots of travel, and... maybe a kid or two ;-)
	CHRISTELLE TORNIKOSKI Finnish, entered Sept. 2007, ABD Christelle was born in France. She spent many years abroad, especially in Sweden and Finland before coming back to France in 2007. Her research area is international human resource management. She is jointly enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Vaasa, Finland. Her research focuses on how expatriates perceive their compensation package (total rewards) and how it impacts on their relationship with their employer (psychological contract). For that purpose, she is analyzing quantitative data from 820 Finnish expatriates. She is also interesting in international careers and ethics. Besides teaching and doing some research, she regularly enlists her colleagues in intensive nature walks to help their over-heated brains to cool off! She has been nicknamed “the PhD Mama” for her tendency to take care of others.
	POST-DOCS AND VISITING SCHOLARS KARIM BEN SLIMANE Tunisian, Doctorate from the U. of Lille (Dec. 2007), Post-Doctoral Scholar at EMLYON Business School, 2008-2009 Karim holds a Doctorate in Strategic Management and Organization from the University of Lille. His dissertation was about the strategic use of discourse in shaping technologies at the field level. He is mainly interested in innovation and competition in technological fields from a discursive and a sociological lens.
	VIRPI SORSA Finnish, PhD student/project researcher at Hanken School of Economics, Finland, Visiting scholar at EMLYON Business School in 2009 Virpi is working on her thesis in which she studies the social and discursive practices of strategizing in the context of public administration. She is interested at how strategy is written, negotiated, and communicated in and around organizations and what implications this work has on subjectivity and power. She is also a mom of two sons, wife of a psychologist, and mad about different enjoyments of life.
	PAST STUDENTS Our program being young (founded in Sept. 2006), we only have one former student so far! OLGA BRUYAKA Ukrainian, graduated in 2008 Olga was the very first student to graduate from our PhD program. In her dissertation, she studied rent generation and rent appropriation within French biotech firms. Her research has appeared in the Strategic Management Journal. She was hired in 2008 as an Assistant Professor at VirginiaTech (USA).

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