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
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, The Netherlands
PERISCOPE: Purchasing Education and Research with an Innovative Sustainability Scope
European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), Bruxelles, Belgium
Eiffel Scholarship
Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères, Paris, France
Publications from the last 5 years
Articles
LACOSTE, S. and PICAUD-BELLO, K. (2026). Network coordination in environmental crisis: Evidence from the Landiras blaze. Industrial Marketing Management, 135, pp. 239-253.
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.
Conference papers (with selection committee)
STADLOBER, V., PICAUD-BELLO, K. and HIERHOLD, F. (2026). From pressure to practice: Juggling formal and informal mechanisms to implement circular economy across the supply chain. In: EUROMA: Operations Management for a Sustainable and Resilient Future. Vienna.
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). Purchasing Sustainable Education: Business non as usual. In: IPSERA Annual Executive Meeting. Bari.
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.
Books chapters and other contributions
PICAUD-BELLO, K. (2025). Making sense of qualitative data. In: TU GRAZ Seminar Day. Graz.
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. (2022). The PERISCOPE Consortium Intellectual Output 5 White Paper Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Purchasing and Supply Management in Innovation and Sustainability.
PICAUD-BELLO, K. (2022). The PERISCOPE Consortium Intellectual Output 4 White Paper COURSE DESIGN.
PICAUD-BELLO, K. (2021). The PERISCOPE Consortium Intellectual Output 3 White paper DELPHI STUDY.