Academic department

Organization, Management and Human Resources

Main campus

Angers

Areas of research

  • Social Enterprises
  • Ecological Economics
  • Environmental Corporate Governance
  • Green Organizational Design
  • Theory of the firm

Areas of teaching

  • Business Ethics
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Social Responsibility

Publications from the last 5 years

Articles

AGAFONOW, A., NEESHAM, C. and PEREZ, M. (2025). For a Unified Stakeholder Management Science: How Computational Ontologies Can Mend a Broken Theory. Philosophy of Management, 24, pp. 155–181.

AGAFONOW, A. (2024). Entrepreneurship, mental disorders and the saga of the adventure gene: debunking the fad of hardwired entrepreneurship. Prometheus, 39(4), pp. 215-232.

AGAFONOW, A. and PEREZ, M. (2024). Overhauling multinationals for the Anthropocene: How a rogue subsidiary offers a blueprint for sustainable development. Ecological Economics, 222, pp. 108232.

AGAFONOW, A. and PEREZ, M. (2024). In search of a non-anthropocentric middle-range theory of the firm: On how the Patagonia Purpose Trust granted a controlling stake to nature. Ecological Economics, 217, pp. 108076.

AGAFONOW, A. and PEREZ, M. (2024). When an A Is NOT an A in Academic Research, or How A-Journal List Metrics Inhibit Exploratory Behaviour in Academia. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 36(1), pp. 105-121.

PEREZ, M. and AGAFONOW, A. (2023). The control of the policy advice industry: How patrons defer their decision-rights to think tank boards. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 89(3), pp. 613-934.

AGAFONOW, A. and PEREZ, M. (2023). How A Social Enterprise Wanes: The Transaction Costs of Credible Commitments at Etsy.com. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 35(1), pp. 83-107.

Conference proceedings

AGAFONOW, A. and PEREZ, M. (2023). Bean-counting Research and the Mismanagement of Knowledge Production in Business Schools. In: AOM Annual Meeting. Boston: Proceedings - Academy of Management (AOM).

Conferences and other contributions

AGAFONOW, A. (2025). Overhauling multinationals for the Anthropocene. In: Seminar of the United States Society of Ecological Economics (USSEE).

PEREZ, M. and AGAFONOW, A. (2025). The Science Based Targets initiative at a governance crossroads: Between Corporate Interests and Governing the Commons. In: Swiss Philanthropy Studies Workshop. Center for Philanthropy Studiesn, University of Basel.

AGAFONOW, A. and PEREZ, M. (2025). New Governance Models for Multinational Enterprises. In: 2025 Meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics (SELE). Europea University Institute, Florence.

AGAFONOW, A. (2024). How the Patagonia Purpose Trust Granted a Controlling Stake to Nature. In: Seminar of the United States Society of Ecological Economics (USSEE).

PEREZ, M. and AGAFONOW, A. (2024). Stakeholder rent appropriation in interoganisational grants  Can European consortia displace think tank rent distribution? In: The 28th Nordic Workshop on Interorganisational Research. BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo.

AGAFONOW, A., NEESHAM, C. and PEREZ, M. (2023). A Computational Fix for Black-box Stakeholderism: Putting Artificial Intelligence at the Service of the Environment and Society. In: EURAM Annual Conference. Dublin.

AGAFONOW, A. and PEREZ, M. (2022). How Airbnb and Facebook capture value from stakeholders. In: Strategic Management Society (SMS) 42nd Annual Conference. London.