Digital employee advocacy: when employees become ambassadors for the company
In the News, SocietyFaced with the difficulties caused by silent resignations and the lack of identification with organizations, digital employee advocacy platforms are being deployed within companies. Digital employee advocacy is a concept that makes employees ambassadors for their company. Anuragini Shirish and Anaya Kumar, researchers at Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, focused on what triggers digital employee advocacy behavior.
Simulation and serious games: training tools for crisis management
In the News, Society
To prepare elected officials, local authorities and citizens to respond in times of crises, immersive simulations and serious games are particularly useful. At IMT Mines Alès and Mines Saint-Étienne, these techniques are used to help prepare…
Rivers and residents: using emotions to promote water conservation
Energy & environment, Environment, In the News, Society
Antoine Fricard, IMT Mines Alès – Institut Mines-Télécom
“Since the American Revolution, since the French Revolution, we have given basic rights to all men and women. This march towards equality and democracy was a major…
New Heroism: a paradoxical model of success
In the News, Scientific literacy, Society
Today, the ideals of success cover multiple areas of society, such as work, cinema, and personal life. In his book Le Nouvel Héroïsme, Olivier Fournout, a sociologist and semiologist at Télécom Paris, analyzes the conditions that have allowed…
All aboard for security
In the News, Mobility, Society
With France’s rail transport market opening up to competition, the SNCF’s security work is also becoming a service. This transformation raises questions on how security as an activity is organized. Florent Castagnino, Sociology researcher…
France’s elderly care system on the brink of crisis
Health, In the News, Society
In his book Les Fossoyeurs (The Gravediggers), independent journalist Victor Castanet challenges the management of the private elderly care facilities of world leader Orpea, reopening the debate around the economic model – whether for-profit…
Privacy as a business model
Digital, In the News, Society
Personal data protection is sometimes presented as a legal headache, typically in the online business world. For others, usually in the activist sphere, it is seen as a way to defend our fundamental rights. Each side tends to mock the other’s…
Delivery riders seeking social protection
In the News, Society
Cynthia Srnec, Sciences Po and Cédric Gossart, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
“In the ideal world of the delivery platforms, we would say nothing, just smile politely, “Hello, sir”, “Goodbye”, get on our bikes, make…
Caring for the population or one’s earnings? A dilemma for marketers in the pharmaceutical industry
In the News, Society
Loréa Baïada-Hirèche, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School ; Anne Sachet-Milliat, ISC Paris Business School et Bénédicte Bourcier-Béquaert, ESSCA École de Management
The pharmaceutical industry is rocked by scandals on a regular…
Waste management: decentralizing for better management
Energy & environment, Environment, In the News, Society
Reducing the environmental impact of waste and encouraging its reuse calls for a new approach to its management. This requires the modeling of circuits on a territorial scale, and the improvement of collaboration between public and private…