The 2024 edition of ACIEK focused on the theme "Innovative and meaningful knowledge: Towards a sustainable business"

The event brought together nearly 750 international researchers, specializing in entrepreneurship and innovation but also in other areas of management science: Marketing, HRM, Information Systems and Finance.

All in all, nearly 254 papers were presented during these 3 days in the Amphi Liard in the Sorbonne and the premises of our university management school.

The French know little about their country's laws. It's a pity, especially when they are used to protect people in financial distress who can no longer make ends meet, the over-indebted, more and more numerous today, faced with the rising cost of living.

In this election year, a figure published on March 26 has sent shockwaves through the economic and political debate. It concerns France's public deficit, which corresponds to the difference between total public spending and the revenue collected by taxes and duties over the course of the same year.

The Cour of Audit has severely pinpointed, in its latest report, the banking sector's lack of involvement in the energy transition. It's not easy for banks to give up financing polluting but profitable activities.

On February 12, 2024, a consortium made up of investment funds TCV, EQT and its CEO, Denis Ladegaillerie, announced that they wanted to buy all the shares in Believe, a French digital music and services company for artists and labels, as well as their intention to delist the company. This involves the already-acted buyout of up to 75% of the stakes held by the former shareholders (TCV Luxco BD, Ventech,

On November 15, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had taken up "the issue of loneliness as an urgent threat to health", echoing numerous studies, the most recent of which was conducted by the Gallup company from June 2022 to February 2023 in 142 countries and led to the highlighting of a figure that could not be more alarming: a quarter of the world's population is said to feel lonely.

In this hyper-connected world of ours, doesn't loneliness seem a curious paradox? As economist Daniel Cohen points out:

In its 2022 Revue nationale stratégique (RNS), France raised influence to the rank of strategic priority. The previous RNS, published in 2017, had already been revised in 2021 to specify France's strategic priorities for 2030; but the tensions observed in 2022 prompted its early revision.

For the past 15 years, local public action has been profoundly impacted by the rise of digital technologies: deployment of fiber optics (Plan France très haut débit), dematerialization of administrative procedures (Action publique 2022 program), opening up of data (Law for a Digital Republic), use of digital as a lever for managing budget austerity, etc.