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
European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), Bruxelles, Belgium

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.

Conferences and other contributions

PICAUD-BELLO, K. and LEGENVRE, H. (2026). Procurement as an entrepreneurial function. In: IPSERA 2026 "Less is More". Aalto University campus, Helsinki.

STADLOBER, V., PICAUD-BELLO, K. and LEGENVRE, H. (2026). Turning pressure into circular supply chain adoption. In: IPSERA 2026 "Less is More". Aalto University campus, Helsinki.

PICAUD-BELLO, K. (2025). Making sense of qualitative data. In: TU GRAZ Seminar Day. Graz.

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.