Audencia Business School

Business in Acute Crisis: A Humanitarian Impact Value Chain for Assessing Cross-Sector Partnerships

Abstract Business–humanitarian partnerships are increasingly mobilised to respond to acute crises, yet in these extreme contexts even well-intentioned collaborations can harm crisis-affected populations and distort humanitarian action. In such settings, generic, outcome-focussed...

‘It’s better to see yourself as a bohemian than poor’: Justifying precarious accommodation as bohemianism among independent musicians

This article shows that independent musicians justify and endure precarious living and working conditions by discursively mobilizing the discourse of bohemianism. Drawing on an analytic ethnography combining long term participant observation and 60 interviews conducted in the Uni...

Entrepreneurship in côte d'Ivoire: exploring colonial, cultural and religious influences on entrepreneurial engagement

Purpose This paper critically examines how colonial history, cultural values and religious influences intersect to shape entrepreneurship in Côte d’Ivoire. Adopting a decolonial perspective, it explores how the legacies of colonial extraction and postcolonial governance continue...