The ATTACHED project aims to articulate human resource management (HRM) and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) via the leader's attachment style. Adopting a resolutely new approach, it proposes to identify the relational mechanisms at the heart of this relationship by going beyond the practice-centred perspective commonly employed in the literature. Derived from psychology, attachment theory will provide a new perspective on the role played by emotional patterns and relational behaviours adopted by individuals in creating virtuous or vicious circles between HRM and innovation. Making use of an ethnographic, longitudinal study carried out in 4 innovative SMEs, coupled with an experiment, a dynamic processual model with a multi-level perspective will be developed, to be discussed each year during workshops bringing together researchers and socioeconomic partners. The results obtained will also be the subject of 6 papers which will be presented at reference conferences (AGRH, EGOS...) before being published in high-ranking journals (Human Resource Management Review, The Leadership Quaterly...). A collective work in English will be published with a view to creating an interdisciplinary community of researchers around the theme of HRM and innovation in SMEs. In addition, special attention will be paid to open science through publication of articles in Forbes, Harvard Business Review and The Conversation and production of popularisation videos in FNEGE MEDIAS. Pedagogical cases will also be developed for students. Finally, the research project will act as a real springboard towards submission of an ERC project whose objective will be to create the first European observatory dedicated to the study of HRM and innovation in SMEs.

Despite its major role in innovation, the continuous generation of ideas remains a major management challenge for organization today. Yet, at the organizational level, the ability to generate and select ideas of value is essential to feed the innovation process and to adapt to rapid environmental changes. We define creative capabilities as an organization’s ability, through processes and routines, to generate, select and integrate new ideas and solutions that are appropriate, useful and actionable in order to improve, change and renew its products and processes as well as the organization itself. Therefore, identifying the foundations of creative capabilities in the creative industries, i.e the configuration of factors, processes and routines that enable an organization to be more creative, flexible and competitive, is essential for improving industry competitively. This ANR research will include (1) case studies in the creative industries to characterize the organizational and process foundations of creative capabilities and (2) an international survey in video game industry as well as workshops with managers from creatives industries to validate the foundations of creative capabilities and to identify the most favorable configuration of factors, resources, processes et routines for creative capacity development. Another series of workshops will be organized with managers from different industries in order to check the extent to which the results can be transferred to traditional industries for the development of innovative, adaptive and integrative organization. The CCO project is supported by the CERAG (Grenoble Alpes University) with a team of eight researchers of CERAG, BETA (Lorraine University), IREGE (Savoie Mont Blanc University) and Grenoble Ecole de Management. The industrial objective of this project is to develop new methods for managing organizational creativity accessible to all, thanks to the development of tools for diagnosis and action, videos and training games for executives and students.

Among consumers, food choices are increasingly shifting towards products of "local" origin. This enthusiasm has a strong impact on small producers who are faced with an increased and very diversified demand, and who - very often - have to ensure all the logistics by their own means, including delivery. This project deals with the problem of the logistics of short and local food circuits, with a multidisciplinary perspective. Management sciences will help to understand the logic of the actors (producers, customers, consumers), to define the needs of the producers and from field studies, to design the platform and to define sustainable economic models. A PhD thesis, co-supervised in two laboratories (Tours and Grenoble) will deal with these questions. Data sciences will help to build the platform and design the algorithms allowing the pooling of routes and the definition of the positioning of intermediate stocks or collective points of sale, in order to minimize the costs of routes, the time spent in distribution, consumption energy, the GHG emissions. A PhD thesis, co-supervised by two laboratories (Tours and Troyes) will design the optimization algorithms. The development of local food logistic, sometimes seen as an alternative to mass distribution industries, requires innovations to meet the challenges of sustainable development, and to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions as much as possible. This project is part of this challenge.

The use of advanced technologies in industrial systems is expanding in view of: 1) the technical specificities that they allow to achieve, 2) the traceability of data that they offer and, 3) the relief of human operators from tedious or repetitive tasks that they make possible. The industrial systems of the Future (4.0) are characterised by an increase in their autonomy and a profusion of data produced and handled that can lead to poorly controlled decisions, which can lead to ethical dilemmas. Such decisions may concern an inappropriate use of data for the management of industrial systems or reactions, triggered by Artificial Intelligence, based on a partial vision of the system and having poorly controlled consequences on the various stakeholders. The ETHICS40 project focuses on the management of ethical issues during the operation of industrial systems of the Future. In partnership with the bearing manufacturer NTN-SNR, which is in the process of migrating to the Factory of the Future, it aims to develop a tool, a software prototype, called ETHICS4IF (Ethical Risk Assessment and Management for Industry of the Future), which will enable the identification and integration of ethical risks into the management and performance imrovement of industrial systems of the Future. As ethics is a concept derived from moral philosophy that is difficult to grasp in engineering, the ETHICS4IF tool will be the result of works led by a multidisciplinary team involving specialists in applied ethics. A definition of this notion of ethics applied to the operation of industrial systems of the Future and an identification of the associated risks will be proposed in a first step. In a second step, the taking into account of these risks in the mechanism of evaluation and continuous improvement of the performance of industrial systems will be made operational by proposing a concrete methodology to integrate the risks and their potential consequences. ETHICS4IF will be aimed at actors interacting with these systems (operators, managers, etc.). It will combine the different points of view associated with ethical risks (human, industrial system, company, society, environment). The ethical management rules and practices deduced from the risk analysis will be defined in accordance with the rules of ethics in place in the company and in compliance with the laws associated with the use of digital technology. Performance indicators related to the ethics associated with the operation of the industrial systems of the Future will be proposed and monitored in order to improve the handling of this dimension. The main deliverable of the project will consist of a software prototype encompassing the aspects mentioned. It will be accompanied by a set of rules and practices deduced from its application by the NTN-SNR partner as well as a feedback on the use of the tool and the management rules and practices, beyond the NTN-SNR case study. The tool will be fed, tested and used by the Company. A strategic committee made up of the project members, industrialists who are not competitors of NTN-SNR and a law office specialising in digital law will oversee the progress of this project. The ETHICS40 project responds to an important need of industrialists in their migration towards the Factory of the Future. It will provide the scientific community with a tool to help operationalise ethics in engineering and industrial engineering research.

Agricultural co-ops are a specific form of governance, democraticly shaped, with a relevant contribution to sustainability. In France, the existing 2,300 co-ops generate 190,000 jobs. They are main actors in the agricultural sector, namely in the wine sector (45% of the production). But some signs indicate a disparity in their performances. Their intrinsic features, as their ways of governance, can inhibit or accelerate technological or organizational innovations. Governance, innovation and sustainability are considered to be the main challenges for the future of the wine co-ops (FranceAgriMer, 2017). This is why our central research question is: what is the impact of agricultural co-op governance on their innovation and sustainability performance, applied to the wine sector? Agricultural co-op governance and performance have been widely studied (Chaddad and Iliopoulos, 2013, Grashuis ans Su, 2019). New approaches on the complex co-op governance and performance (Cornforth, 2004 ; Grashuis and Su, 2019; Saïsset and Codron, 2019) and the influence of governance and innovation on co-op performance (Reboud et al., 2016), from a sustainable standpoint (Marcis et al., 2018), are needed. Our project is pluridisciplinary and primarily anchored in economics and management. Its practical objective is to help farmers and their co-ops to meet the challenge of innovative agriculture to significantly achieve sustainability in the wine sector. Our scientific objective is to understand how wine co-op governance are likely to contribute to more technological and organisational innovative practices, and how they can influence sustainability performance. The analysis and data collection plan includes building a strong conceptual framework (WP1), an exploratory and qualitative approach of wine co-op governance and innovation, using semi-directive interviews (WP2), and a quantitative study, assessing governance, innovation and sustainability performance and their links (WP3).