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. and PEREZ, M. (2026). OpenAI and the new commons tragedy of artificial general intelligence (AGI): A micro-constitutional approach to governing AGI. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 228, pp. 124680.
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.
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).
Conference papers (with selection committee)
PEREZ, M. and AGAFONOW, A. (2026). From For-Profit Bankruptcy to Non-Profit Stewardship: Assessing Credible Commitments in the 23andMe Transition. In: Swiss Philanthropy Studies Workshop 2026. Center for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS) University of Basel.
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.
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.
AGAFONOW, A. (2021). The Non-sense of Theory-less Management Research and Practice. In: EURAM 2021, Reshaping Capitalism for a Sustainable World. ESG, UQAM, Montréal.
Books chapters and other contributions
AGAFONOW, A. (2026). Encadrement de l’IA : « Il est temps de passer de la confiance à une conception institutionnelle réellement contraignante ». Le Monde, France.
AGAFONOW, A. (2025). Overhauling multinationals for the Anthropocene. In: Seminar of the United States Society of Ecological Economics (USSEE).
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).
AGAFONOW, A. (2022). Philosophy of Science for Management Theory, Practice, and Sci-fi Freaks: An Introduction. In: C. Neesham (ed.). Handbook of Philosophy of Management. 1st ed. Springer International Publishing.
AGAFONOW, A. and PEREZ, M. (2021). Discoveries in the Science of Organizational Economics. In: Cristina Neesham (ed.). Handbook of Philosophy of Management. 1st ed. Springer International Publishing.
AGAFONOW, A. and PEREZ, M. (2021). No Organizations for Today’s Einsteins. In: Cristina Neesham (ed.). Handbook of Philosophy of Management. 1st ed. Springer International Publishing.
HOERBER, T., AGAFONOW, A. and AKHABBAR, A. (2021). On the verge of a second revolution in the European Union’s utilities market for energy production? The role of social enterprises. In: Jenny M. Fairbrass, Nicholas Vasilakos eds. Emerging Governance of a Green Economy. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, pp. 54-73.