Academic department

Operations Management and Decision Science

Main campus

Angers

Areas of research

  • Purchasing involvement in New Product Development
  • Customer-supplier relationship in New Product Development
  • Sourcing and Supply Chain Management Management de l’innovation / Innovation Management
  • Innovation Management
  • Dynamic Capabilities - Absorptive Capacity

Areas of teaching

  • Strategic Management
  • Purchasing and Supply Managment
  • Customer and Supplier Relationship
  • Supply Chain Management

Grants and awards

2021

Best Paper Award:“Purchasing in the area of Innovation and Sustainability: A Study into Current and Future Competences”
International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA), Sint-Michielsgestel, Netherlands (The)

2019

PERISCOPE: Purchasing Education and Research with an Innovative Sustainability Scope
Erasmus + Programme européen pour l'éducation, la formation, la jeunesse et le sport

2012

Eiffel Scholarship
Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères, Paris, France

Publications from the last 5 years

Articles

CABRAS, I., LLAVERO-PASQUINA, M., PICAUD-BELLO, K. and WEBER, G. (2025). Place-Based Leadership and Environmental Conflicts in the European Union. Regional Studies, 59(1), pp. 2486644.

STEK, K., PICAUD-BELLO, K., KOCH, V. and JOHNSEN, T. (2025). Rethinking Purchasing and Supply Management Education for Sustainability and Innovation Challenges Crafting a Future-Ready Competency-based Curriculum Design. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 31(2), pp. 100974.

PICAUD-BELLO, K., SCHIELE, H., KOCH, V. and FRANCILLETTE, M. (2024). Innovation through sustainability: Identifying purchaser skills fostering green innovation. Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, 10, pp. 100136.

PICAUD-BELLO, K., STEVENS, E., CLOUTIER, M. and RENARD, L. (2022). Coordinating Service Ecosystems for innovation: The case of Tourism Destination Innovation Projects. Industrial Marketing Management, 106, pp. 444-460.

PICAUD-BELLO, K., JOHNSEN, T. and CALVI, R. (2022). Purchasing involvement in new product development: An absorptive capacity perspective. Industrial Marketing Management, 104, pp. 150-166.

RENARD, L., CLOUTIER, M., PICAUD-BELLO, K. and STEVENS, E. (2020). Émergence et formation de routes touristiques à thème : apports des concepts de stratégie collective et d’entrepreneuriat collectif. Management & Avenir, 2(116), pp. 85-97.

Conferences and other contributions

PICAUD-BELLO, K. (2025). Purchasing Sustainable Education: Business non as usual. In: IPSERA Annual Executive Meeting. Bari.

PICAUD-BELLO, K. and LEGENVRE, H. (2025). El rol del departamento de compras en la transición hacia modelos de abastecimiento circulares. Harvard Deusto Business Review, Spain.

PICAUD-BELLO, K. (2025). Exploring Product Design, Data Sharing Initiatives and Materials flow to Facilitate Circular Economy: a coevolutionary approach. In: IPSERA Conference Room for Talent. Rotterdam.

PICAUD-BELLO, K. and LEGENVRE, H. (2024). Product Design Activities and Data Sharing Initiatives to Facilitate Plastic Recycling: From a Coevolutionary Perspective. In: IPSERA 2024 Emerging Alternatives. Rio de Janeiro.

PICAUD-BELLO, K. (2023). Linking secondary plastics suppliers and consuming companies: The role of purchasing. In: IPSERA 2023: Systematic Change. EADA Business school Barcelona.

PICAUD-BELLO, K., JOHNSEN, R. and ALLOUCH, A. (2023). Building relational capital in service ecosystems for innovation: Evidence from the tourism sector. In: IPSERA 32nd Annual Meeting: Systemic Change. Barcelona.

PICAUD-BELLO, K. (2022). Teaching sustainable and innovative purchasing and supply management comptences through an open student-cenred learning approach. In: Building Bridges, 31th Annual Meeting, IPSERA Conference. Jönköping University.